The Power

of Goal Calibration

It’s a simple, powerful way to increase the effectiveness of goal setting at your company. Goal calibration helps to align goals within your group and helps the group’s manager to ensure all goals are set at a similar level of challenge. And, when done well, goal calibration can…

About Talent Philosophy

Marc Effron, the creator of talent philosophy, describes the purpose, structure and how to successfully implement a talent philosophy in your organization.

The CHRO’s Team:
What Matters Most

Even CHROs who have aggressively upgraded other elements of their organization have hesitated to make the often-obvious talent changes needed in their direct reports. We tell you how to ensure you shape your team for incredible results.

2021 Talent Management Compensation Report

We’re pleased to bring you our latest research with all the facts about talent management compensation in 2021. Our report includes compensation insights from 101 companies and shows the average compensation for talent management, L&D and OD/OE roles, and compensation by company revenue for many TM and L&D…

HR Transformation Report 2021

Our first HR Transformation survey brings generally good news but with a number of warning flags. We found that many companies achieve their HR transformation goals, but often slower, less completely and with less satisfaction with the results than they expected. Our primary conclusions are:

How to Crush Bias in Performance Management

Brilliant performance management doesn’t just get the basics right, it ensures that bias doesn’t undercut potentially great results! You can help crush bias by recognizing where it lurks in performance management and how to fix it.

The Success Model Webinar

Your company’s success relies on your leaders’ ability to deliver the few, differentiating capabilities that your strategy requires. A Success Model captures those capabilities in a succinct and powerful way. It’s easy to implement because managers instantly understand its brief, engaging and aspirational statements. During the webinar, you will learn the three things that make a success model the simple, powerful approach to define success for your leaders.

Be Transparent Now Video

Why aren’t companies transparent with their employees about their performance and potential? I tell you the excuses we hear and the way to overcome those.

The Small Company and Unicorn’s Guide to Growing Great Talent

When it comes to building great talent, smaller companies often believe they have to imitate larger companies’ talent practices to be successful – complexity, bureaucracy and all. The good news is that the science-based, talent-building fundamentals we describe in One Page Talent Management work incredibly well in smaller companies too! 

Be Transparent Now

Transparency about performance and potential remains an incredibly important topic with our clients around the globe. Yet, we find that the frequency of our client discussions about the topic is not correlated with a meaningful increase in transparency. We provide you with direct advice about how to move towards a more transparent organization.