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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 – […]

By Zac Upchurch, Chief Operating Officer, Talent Strategy Group Welcome to the eighth edition of this Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and Chief People Officer (CPO) Trends Report, providing a view into the evolving landscape of Human Resources leadership across the Fortune 200 companies. This year’s report identifies seven key trends shaping the role and […]

Most of our clients want to elevate performance in their organization. Yet many hesitate until they have the excuse of a restructuring or redesign to take the first step. We believe there’s no bad time to start increasing performance and that the process starts with a note from the CEO. That CEO note tells the […]

Marc Effron and Peter Attfield discuss our 2025 Critical Roles Report and the practical implications for your organization in this thought-provoking webinar! We discuss how companies are identifying their critical roles, what they’re missing in the process, and the two most important things nearly every organization should be doing, but isn’t. We dig into the APAC-specific issues that […]

Our President, Marc Effron, details how to have a transparent and positive conversation with a potential successor without promising them anything.

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. It’s the tired opening line in a LinkedIn post, the first slide in a consultant’s deck, or the hook in […]

It’s such a common scenario in talent reviews that we’ve even given it a name – upper right bias. That’s when managers place a strangely large percentage of their team in the high potential category, typically located in the upper right section of their potential tool. That upper right bias could be due to managers […]

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. Your Teams window brightens as an HR consultant appears breathlessly telling you about their consulting firm’s revolutionary discovery. This discovery […]