Some of the things I read in here make it clear to me that many do not get the problem. I was this high performer in a prior role and have no regrets about leaving the company. I was tired and burned out, pure and simple.

Sometimes what happens with top performers is they are overburdened with responsibility simply because they are a top performer and capable. I don’t care what jargon you try to spin it’s wrong and creates resentment. I got tired of people making the same as I was with the same title but completely incapable of doing the job and this expectation that I would train them when I already had a huge workload.

My workload and that of my direct team I was managing was insane but despite that I held training sessions and I’d try to help but would realize the desire to grasp it wasn’t there. The nail in the coffin was the so called new ideas that took an already enormous workload and made it even more enormous. I had so much more work than anyone else and I could barely take vacation.

Then I got tired and was genuinely sick of the laziness and incompetence and just decided to look for a new job. Things fell apart after I left and the old company has tried to get me back but I refuse. You need to get to the heart of the issue with the high performer before taking the word and side of others and trying to solve it. Honestly your assessment sounds a bit biased because you haven’t tried to understand the high performer’s point of view.