Top Performers
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT RESEARCH
How to help them. How to keep them.
Other companies are always looking to lure away your top performers. Top performers are contacted with other employment opportunities on average 4.3 times per year, and 88% of them will reply to the contact.
In a blind, multi-national study, Qualtrics performed an employee engagement survey of 800 recently promoted employees with outstanding performance reviews what makes them happy, what makes them work, and what makes them stay.
Section 1
Top performer engagement
Consumer Packaged Goods, Tech, and Media are the industries most likely to give their Top Performers career development opportunities.
Question
How dedicated is your employer to giving you development opportunities to advance your career?
Top performers frequently meet with their managers.
Question
How often do you have a formal meeting with just you and your manager to discuss work needs?
70%
0%
Meet at least
weekly by industry
Technology
Construction
Real estate
Consumer packaged goods
Manufacturing
Retail
Scientific services
Media and entertainment
Finance and insurance
Professional services
Hospitality, food, travel
Transportation
Educational services
Healthcare
Qualtrics Employee Experience management platform helps companies reduce unwanted attrition, improve the employer’s employee engagement, develop top performers, and build strong teams. To read more original Qualtrics research like this, please visit our Research Center.
Top Performers see value in meeting with managers
Question
What percent of interactions with your manager result in you learning something valuable?
74% of top performers say their manager effectively helps them advance their career
Question
Top performers that say manager helps advance their career by industry
100%
0%
By industry
Scientific services
Transportation
Technology
Media and entertainment
Professional services
Consumer packaged goods
Construction
Manufacturing
Finance and insurance
Hospitality, food, travel
Real estate
Educational services
Retail
Healthcare
Section 2
Top performer retention
Top performing men are slightly more likely than top performing women to be able tell their manager what they think about work issues most of the time.
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
EMPLOYEE 360 REVIEWS
Question
How helpful has feedback from your performance reviews & 360 employee feedback been to your career advancement?
Performance reviews help top performers know where to improve
Question
Why are regular performance reviews helpful?
360 employee feedback highlights where to improve, what's going well and miscommunications
Question
Why is 360 employee feedback helpful?
Qualtrics Employee Experience management platform helps companies reduce unwanted attrition, improve the employer’s employee engagement, develop top performers, and build strong teams. To read more original Qualtrics research like this, please visit our Research Center.