What is the use of twenty eighty rule on staff evaluation? PDF Print E-mail

Can you differentiate performers, doers and trouble makers in your company?

We can use a "Gauss Curve" to plot the productivity in relation to people in an organization. So, in any organization, you have people who are highly productive, some people with much less productive and the majority of people are in medium productivity.

One could say that 80% of the result in an organization is created by 20% of the people. If you would take away the 20% most productive people, you would lose at least 80% of their result. In some companies, it's even like 5% of the people who contribute the 95% of the result.  We call these productive people as "PERFORMERS". They are important and valuable people to any company. Their traits, attributes and characteristics can be objectively measured and identified.

The next group is "DOERS" which is about 60% of your staff most of the time. These people can perform depending on who is leading them or who is running the company. It is important to get a "PERFORMER" to lead the "DOERS" so the "DOERS" can do more. 

Now we have 17.5% of people who are the"TROUBLE MAKERS". They create trouble to themselves and others easily, like making mistake, complaining a lot, arguing pointlessly, creating fights, etc. Worst is their performance is not stable that sometimes they do good but sometimes not that good. You may or may not have 2.5% of people in your company; who are DESTRUCTIVE that they do not want your company to win or to grow. They could affect the entire organization too. 

So it is time to review our goal of hiring on what type of people you are looking for and what type of people you will definitely not want to get them in at all. That's why you need a more reliable personality assessment test to be able to help you to screen those out even they look friendly and nice in the interviews.