Insights

There’s a yawning gap between the concept of employee development and its execution at most companies.  Despite spending billions of dollars on development activities, companies have few tangible benefits to show from their investment. Our talent practices audits of companies globally show that development planning is the least effective talent practice by a considerable margin. […]

It’s a simple but powerful truth: companies change faster than leaders do. Companies evolve as they respond to market opportunities, economic cycles, regulatory changes and assorted strategic challenges. Their evolutionary pace has accelerated as globalization brings more competitors and technology disrupts traditional service models. Leaders . . . well, leaders try very hard and have […]

By Zac Upchurch, Chief Operating Officer, Talent Strategy Group I am pleased to present our fifth edition of this Chief Human Resources Officer report that outlines the top ten trends in the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and Chief People Officer (CPO) roles and introduces the Fortune 200 new CHROs/CPOs who came into the role […]

“A bad carpenter blames his tools”   The talent review is a well-accepted and increasingly common element of how organizations manage talent. They see the value in understanding an individual’s potential to advance and using that information to better plan for succession. Which tool should guide that discussion, however, is increasingly under debate. The classic […]

It’s surprising that so many organizations – even the larger and more sophisticated ones – still lack a well-designed talent strategy. By well designed, we mean a strategy that tightly flows from the business strategy, is clear about the talent team’s three or four big promises/deliverables, spans at least three years, and is specific enough […]

It’s unfortunately still fashionable to sell companies bias training to help their leaders reduce bias in performance management. While the intentions of these efforts are admirable, the research is clear that anti-bias training rarely has a lasting effect. Science shows that it doesn’t provoke a long-term change in racial bias and in other cases it […]

The dedicated scientists at Talent Strategy Group Laboratories, AG, had nearly given up after years of tireless effort with absolutely no results. Then, using right-brain thinking and a growth mindset, they made a discovery that will change performance forever.

Watch and be amazed.

Should you change your definition of potential given the workplace changes after the pandemic? While the intuitive answer to that question after two years of turmoil would seem to be “yes,” the facts about potential guide us to a more nuanced conclusion.

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.