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- adjective operating on or powered by a high voltage
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2. Define "high-potential" - Once you gain support to invest in your agency's high-potential employees, you need to define the term "high-potential."
Tom Fox: Developing the Leadership Skills of High-Potential Employees Tom Fox 2011
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2. Define "high-potential" - Once you gain support to invest in your agency's high-potential employees, you need to define the term "high-potential."
Tom Fox: Developing the Leadership Skills of High-Potential Employees Tom Fox 2011
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Companies might hesitate to publicly label their high-potential employees because it may alienate those who aren't tapped or pressure the organization to follow up on some promise of career advancement, says Doug Ready , a leadership professor at University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Employees With 'High Potential' Need to Know Melissa Korn 2011
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For the past 10 years I have worked in two education sectors frequently tagged with the "creaming" label - charter schools and a nonprofit focused on STEM education for high-potential students.
Robert Schwartz: Why Charters and College Access Programs Should Cream Robert Schwartz 2011
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Failure to assign key clients or challenging projects to high-potential women.
Dr. Sasha Galbraith: Forget The End Of Men; Executive Women Still Fighting for Fair Chance Dr. Sasha Galbraith 2011
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Our new report, The Myth of the Ideal Worker, the latest in our series on high-potential employees, makes it clear that even when women do "all the right things" they're unlikely to earn as much or advance as far as their male colleagues.
Ilene H. Lang: Women Ask, But Men Don't Have To Ilene H. Lang 2011
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Through his work connecting the kids with funding sources and taking them to visit the campuses, he sends accomplished, high-potential students like Evette Tovar to places like Yale, Brown, Princeton and Harvard.
Graciela Tiscareno-Sato: The Viral Immigration Meme: Did You See The Success Story? Graciela Tiscareno-Sato 2012
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For the past 10 years I have worked in two education sectors frequently tagged with the "creaming" label - charter schools and a nonprofit focused on STEM education for high-potential students.
Robert Schwartz: Why Charters and College Access Programs Should Cream Robert Schwartz 2011
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Mr. Coles, whose Vienna-based firm has 40 employees, says he plans to help send several high-potential employees through the same program.
Small Change 2010
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Nevertheless, he encourages high-potential employees to get the degree.
Small Change 2010
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