The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

In a recent article for Harvard Business Review, Ruth Gotian, chief learning officer at Weill Cornell Medicine, has a warning for companies: You’re potentially not treating those top employees, the ones who really make your business tick, right.

“Despite their critical importance to an organization’s mission and bottom line,” she writes, “high performers, who are generally 400% more productive than an average employee (and as high as 800% more productive in highly complex occupations, such as software developers), are often overlooked.”

This doesn’t mean that companies are paying too much attention to their average employees (who also help keep a business humming). Instead, managers are often focusing on underperformers who need immediate attention and intervention. “This unbalanced attention is costly,” Ruth continues, “leading to disengagement, frustration, and ultimately, the loss of top talent.”

So what’s a company to do? Ruth suggests giving some more love to your top performers. To find out what that looks like — including why you should encourage top performers to “live out their values through their work” — be sure to check out Ruth’s article at the top of our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals.

And further down our list, you can also learn why recruiters should treat every interaction with a candidate as if it’s the high point of their day; how the L&D community is feeling about their function potentially being “demoted”; and why we are all likely guilty of ageism — and what we can do about it.