High-maintenance employees are often perceived as demanding, uncooperative, and arrogant. Yet, according to Katherine Graham Leviss, one of the nation´s leading business coaches and author of the new book HIGH-MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES, smart companies should always look for high-maintenance employees, because they can be a company´s most creative, driven, innovative, and best-performing workers.
"High-maintenance employees will achieve their goals, often before they are expected to achieve them," says Graham Leviss. "Creating an environment that encourages the strengths of high-maintenance employees is like striking gold. They are the change agents and the creative problem-solvers always looking for ways to make things better. They will forge ahead implementing and executing new ideas and new ways of thinking." In HIGH-MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES, Graham Leviss shows how to successfully lead and manage these high achievers to bring out their best characteristics and keep them on track.
Detailed and practical, HIGH-MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES destroys the myth that these star workers are impossible to manage by showing how to maximize their talents and job satisfaction while reducing the impact of their more disruptive qualities. Graham Leviss also reveals:
In addition, Graham Leviss details what to expect when working for a high-maintenance boss and the positive and negative characteristics of high-level executives who are also high-maintenance employees.
Cultivating high-maintenance personnel is key to an organization´s success. According to Graham Leviss, "Companies with high-maintenance employees are more likely to respond quickly to changing environments. With them, a company can drive to results more quickly:create, build, ship products, and close business." HIGH-MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES shows managers at all levels how to put these visionary, goal-driven workers in a position to use their strengths and help them compensate for their weaknesses.
Katherine Graham Leviss is President of XB Coaching, one of the nation´s leading executive coaching companies whose clients include the NFL, Merck Inc., Radisson SAS, and Clear Channel. For over twenty years, she has helped thousands of chief executives, front-line managers, and sales groups manage and develop their talent to improve results and grow their businesses. A Certified Executive Coach through Corporate Coach University, Graham Leviss is also a certified behavioral analyst, a certified values analyst, a certified attribute index analyst, and a member of the International Coaching Federation and The American Society of Training and Development. She lives in Rhode Island.