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For me it's simple. High performers want high performing managers. The ones that are ambitious and try to effect change. How do you partner with your boss to take on the world? There is nothing that kills high performers more than the status quo.
It sounds facetious, but is not meant to be: by continually challenging and engaging them. If you feel they can figure out their job on their own, challenge them in how they report to you. Move their goalposts slowly but deliberately forwards to make sure they always have something more to strive for. And let them be part of decision making - show them where their goals should be, then let them define the details themselves.
Career conversations. Understanding where they want to go and the kinds of tasks that fill their cup can allow you to match what must be done in your department with the best ways to push their horizons. Intentionally growing their skills into where they want to go helps you and them.
Work with them to make them better, that could be having them assist with a different type of task that effect the department or even a different department. If I can teach them 1 thing a day to make them a little better that will keep them engaged and challenged.