By: Zac UpchurchTalent Strategy Group Welcome to the 2026 Performance Management Report, providing a data-driven view of how organizations design, manage, and execute Performance Management today. Drawing on data from more than 250 organizations across industries, sizes, and geographies, this report examines the design choices and perceived effectiveness of Performance Management processes. This year’s report […]
By: Marc EffronTalent Strategy Group Manuela MorelliTalentum Consulting What Does Talent Mean to You? Picture this scene: A group of people sits around a light wood table in a nonprofit’s conference room. An HR partner is holding a competency map, a programme director with rolled-up sleeves, a project manager checking their phone, and an executive […]
Marc EffronPresident, Talent Strategy Group The new year brings bold new challenges so we present a list of our predictions (and thinly disguised hopes) for 2026. 1. Employers clarify the deal: In 2024, Dell Technology made transparent what other executives spoke about only behind closed doors. Dell said that, as part of a move to […]
by: Marc Effron and Jim Shanley The answer never changes. Every year a global strategy consulting firm will survey executives to ask which topics are most important to them. Every year “having more better quality talent” is a top three priority. Organizations have progressed unevenly towards achieving that goal. Our global experience as consultants and […]
You’re either in one, planning one or finishing one. More than 80% of organizations say they’ve just completed or will soon start to transform their HR organization. Whether driven by a technology upgrade, cost reductions or the desire to improve HR service quality, we find a common reaction at the end of HR transformation efforts […]
THANK YOU We’re only able to produce high quality research like the 2025 Potential Report through your support. We wanted this survey to be the largest ever research project on potential and you made that possible! To everyone who completed the survey – which was our longest ever in our 15 years of research – […]