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Our fourth edition of the Chief Human Resources Officer report reviews trends in the CHRO marketplace and introduces the Fortune 200’s new CHROs from 2020. The Fortune 200 welcomed 27 new Chief Human Resources Officers in 2020, a turnover of nearly 15%.

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 crush potential bias that tries to creep […]

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 levels. Read the full report here More […]

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:

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.

There’s no good way to dress up the dreaded middle rating and no way to convince anyone that being “average” is absolutely fine. If you have these conversations coming up, here are a few practical ideas to make them easier and more productive.

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

As companies worldwide strive to optimize performance management, they often overlook a change that would simplify the process, build trust and increase accountability. They can eliminate the self-review.

The employee self-review continues to exist more due to benign corporate neglect than to conscious inclusion in the assessment process. Its presence can introduce bias, give cover to poor managers and create unrealistic expectations in employees.

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.