#0442 – Stop Wasting Time on Low Performers with Mike Goldman

What if the biggest mistake you’re making as a leader is spending too much time on your low performers? In this episode of Deep Leadership, I sit down with Mike Goldman, leadership team coach, TEDx speaker, and USA Today bestselling author of The Strength of Talent: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Profit. Mike challenges the traditional approach to performance management and explains why leaders often spend far too much time trying to fix struggling employees while neglecting their very best people. We discuss why annual performance reviews are broken, how to identify high performers and true culture fits, why a high-performing toxic employee may be more dangerous than a low performer, and when it’s time to coach someone up or coach them out. Mike also introduces his Talent Density System, a practical approach for measuring the strength of your team and holding leaders accountable for developing their people. In this episode, we discuss: • Why most performance management syste...