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The Top Line: Five Key Findings from our 2024 survey Our 2024 Global HR Census finds that a curious dichotomy describes those in the HR field.HR leaders show up as highly engaged.Many are willing to sacrifice to achieve their career goals. They care deeply about developing people and they possess strong experience in the function. […]

Preface Dear Reader: I apologize for writing such a long report. What you’ll read in this report started with an article idea about skills-based environments. The idea was spurred by the increasing promotion of the concept by vendors and consultants and the early corporate initiatives I had heard about. When I write an article, I […]

If you believe that better quality talent delivers better results, then you should want as much great talent on your team as quickly as you can get it. A well-run talent review is the surest, shortest path to make that happen. Unfortunately, leaders don’t always get the benefits they should from talent reviews. Leaders are […]

By Zac Upchurch, Chief Operating Officer, Talent Strategy Group I am pleased to present our sixth addition of this Chief Human Resources Officer report that outlines the top ten trends in the Fortune 200 company Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and Chief People Officer (CPO) role. In addition, the report introduces the new Fortune 200 […]

At a recent dinner, a client steered the topic towards assessing the potential of talent. She asked me to share my insights on predicting the leadership potential of employees (defined as the ability to build and lead teams of increased scope and complexity to outperform the competition), to which I shared my musings summarized as: […]

Our recent 2023 Global Performance Management Report, revealed that nearly all surveyed companies have performance management in place, and yet 80% of them have re-designed it in the past four years. This indicates either a dissatisfaction with the current approach and/or striving to implement something perceived to be novel and more effective. Despite that near […]

There are two questions that we ask in our early conversations with clients. Their answers provide us with deep insights about their ability to add value through talent. They also instantly diagnose which talent practices need more attention. The two questions are: 1. Is your organization able to sustain individual high performance? 2. Do you […]

It’s great news that talent reviews have become almost universal in organizations. This foundational practice can help any organization to build better talent faster. The fact that most companies do them, however, doesn’t mean that they’re done well. We see companies with overly complex processes, vague definitions of potential, ill-equipped HR leaders, no follow up […]

Hal’s a loyal, friendly and well-liked guy. He’s been with your company more than 20 years. He’s in a big, important role. Hal was a great fit with the company when he joined, but is a highly questionable fit with its future needs. His performance is consistently rated at or slightly below average. His role […]