Developing Top Performers: How to Grow Your Own

Trends You Can Take to the Bank

Aging Workforce

Tech Advances

Pace of Change

= Talent Shortage

Aging Workforce

Tech Advances

Busy season . . . then Costa Rica for 8 months.  

Really???

Pace of Change200266 Pages

20102,319 Pages

65% of today’s Students will be employed in jobs that don’t exist yet . . .According to the Department of Labor

There’s Nothing Like Homegrown Tomatoes

[EY article – university requirements]

Nature vs. Nurture:  Debunking the Common Wisdom

Is talent innate or can it be developed?

How can you accelerate their development?

What would happen if everyone at your company knew where you were going 

and why?

How do we create clear linkages between my job and the company goals?

Embrace Radical Transparency

What separates truly great performers from everyone else?

Deep Domain Knowledge

Willingness to Repeat Hard Things, Even After Initial Failures

Push Themselves Just Beyond Their Current 

Capabilities

"Organizations tend to assign people based on what they're already good at, not what they need to work on." 

‐ Geoff Colvin

Developmental Goals

"The best performers set goals that are not just about the outcome, but about the process of reaching the outcome." 

Deliberate Practice

Talent Development & Coaching

“If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Separate Coaching from Mentoring

Structured Coaching

3‐3‐1 in 15 minutes

•What’s working?•What’s not?•One goal

Coaching Tip:  Ask Good Questions

• What’s the one thing that you could do now that would have the biggest impact on your future success in leadership?

• What's the one thing you could do that would have the biggest impact on your relationships with members of your project teams?

• What relationships should you be cultivating?• What are you doing to stretch yourself from a technical perspective?

Coaching Tip:  Practice Reflective Listening

“What I hear you saying is . . .”

Mentoring“Not everyone at your firm is likely to be an effective mentor.  Good mentors are typically a scarce resource at firms.”

Let’s Connect

Dan Griffiths is the Director of Advisory Services at Tanner, a CPA firm based in Salt Lake City. He provides strategic and business planning, business coaching, and leadership development. Contact Dan at: dgriffiths@tannerco.comOr connect with him on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dangriffithscpa