Managing Talented People: Getting on with - and Getting the Best from - Your High Performers

The manager of a talented team needs to learn quickly how to spot and respond to talent, how to enable it to grow, while gently directing its course. The manager of a talented team needs to thoroughly understand what role they play in the team's success and communicate that subtly but effectively. To be respected and to be the person that the talented individual is happy to be led by.
This is the book that explores what talent is, how to recognise it and how to deal with it on a day by day basis to eke the very best out of high talent individuals, while keeping them happy and motivated - and in your team.

Alan Robertson is an independent management consultant and much of his work is concerned with personal coaching and helping people and organisations to get to grips with more challenging spaces.

Graham Abbey is currently working for Easy Jet. His specialism is management and organisational development, but he has also held human resources, project management, sales and process re-engineering roles.