The Secrets of Superior Job Performance

Napoleon Hill the author of Think and Grow Rich states for an individual to be successful, the number one trait they need is enthusiasm, “it drives a positive mind and positive action”. Napoleon describes a number of other additional attributes as crucial for an individual to be deemed as a high performer, and these are:

? Self discipline
? The capacity to work well in a team
? Tack and a pleasant tone of voice
? Objective inductive and deductive reasoning
? A capacity to learn from adversity and defeat
? Creative thinking
? Sound health
? Good financial management
? Good time management
? Having a definite purpose in life.
? Having rapport, empathy, diplomacy, and personal presentation skills
? The capacity to go the extra mile, ie to undertake more than you were originally asked to do
? Having a sense of humour
? Having sincerity
? Being patience

Napolean Hill studied five hundred of America’s most successful people during the first half of the twentieth century, to formulate his views on high performance individuals. If these are the traits needed to be a high performance employee, then how are you vetting your job applicant’s for these traits?

You might say, I don’t need to vet someone for their health or financial management skills, and if I did this how would I do it anyway? Consider this fact, more than 60% of employers stated that work attendance and productivity related directly in proportion to employee personal problems. (1)

The self - rated index measures how you emotionally feel about your circumstances and the impact on your health. Results show that people who are free of disease, symptoms, and risk factors, but who nevertheless rate their own health as "fair or poor, " are likely to die at an earlier age than individuals who rate their health as "good or excellent." (2) You can promote the taking of self – rated assessments for any Napoleon Hill’s attributes for a high performer, as a pre cautionary check for high performance personnel.

I am not suggesting that you become a big brother employer, however I am suggesting, if you want to employ high performance staff, then you need to look for any signs of ill health, poor fiscal management, a poor sense of humour, and a lack of balance and well being.

(1) Sutherland. C (2007) Why 75% of Your Absenteeism Costs Definitely Should NOT be Occurring
(2) Anderson N & Anderson E (2003) Emotional Longevity Viking Press, Penguin books USA p 6
David Osborne is a recruitment and performance management expert.
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