high potential
Likely to excel
High potential describes someone or something with strong capacity for future success or development.
In corporate contexts, a high-potential employee (often shortened to HiPo) is identified as having the talent and drive for leadership roles: She's on the high-potential track for senior management.
The phrase implies promise not yet fully realized—capability that awaits opportunity or cultivation.
- promisingShowing signs of success
- talentInborn aptitude
- giftedGiven as present
- star pupilExceptional learner, often praised
- bright futureAnticipated success and happiness
rising star · rising · star · prodigy · next big thing · untapped · diamond in the rough · latent · emerging · fast learner · voltage · energy · charge · spark · brilliant · ambitious · driven · ceiling
- Giftednessgifted, gifted child, prodigy, child prodigies, precocious
- succession planningsuccessor, heir apparent, succession plan, bench strength, talent pipeline
- assessmentsassessments, evaluation, evaluations, test, tests
high potentialmediocre
Of only moderate quality
untalented · incompetent · ungifted · average · ordinary
high potentialestablished
Formally set up
track record · accomplished · seasoned veteran · known quantity · battle-tested
high, higher, highest, highly, highness, height, heights, heighten, heightened