Strategic Workforce Planning: Testing Demand Before You Add Headcount | Brian Heger

Workforce Planning

You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 361 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Strategic workforce planning (SWP) is consistently ranked as a top priority by HR leaders. Yet it has one of the largest gaps between ranked importance and organizational capability. One costly result of ineffective SWP is a familiar …

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Coaching in the Age of AI: Perspectives on Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions | SpringerBriefs in Psychology

Talent Development

You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 361 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Technology continues to create new opportunities for organizations to expand coaching at scale, prompting HR practitioners to determine where AI-enabled coaching fits within their broader coaching strategies. In fact, given growing Talent Edge Weekly reader interest in this topic, I recently …

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Talent Edge Weekly – Issue 361

Newsletter Workforce Trends

Thanks to eQ8 for sponsoring this issue. Workforce planning has just gotten easier. Check out eQ8’s AI Workforce Agent. It analyzes your business plans and strategy documents to quickly build workforce forecasts and scenario models. This issue of Talent Edge Weekly covers: Strategic Workforce Planning: Testing Demand Before You Add Headcount | Brian Heger | …

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Before Rolling Out a New Strategy, Assess Your Team’s Readiness | Harvard Business Review

Leadership & Culture

You can also read this along with other resources in issue 360 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  I recently shared a post on organizational capacity to absorb change, drawing on research showing employees can realistically take on only one or two major changes per year, even though leaders are planning three or four by …

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Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Managers and The Allocation of Workers to Jobs | Quarterly Journal of Economics

Talent Management

You can also read this along with other resources in issue 360 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  I am looking forward to attending the 2026 HR Tech Conference in October, where I will get a firsthand look at where HR technology, including internal mobility (IM) platforms, is headed next. But as I have shared many times, …

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Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts About the Recent Employment Effects of AI (August 2026 Update) | Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Workforce Trends

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab just released an updated 140-page research paper, Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts About the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence. Using ADP payroll data through mid-2026, the authors examine employment shifts since ChatGPT’s release. One …

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Freeing Up Workforce Capacity From the Team You Already Have | Brian Heger

Leadership & Culture Workforce Planning

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  One objective of workforce planning is ensuring that an organization has the workforce capacity to execute its critical goals and priorities. While acquiring more people (e.g., employees, contractors, etc.) is one way to increase workforce capacity, another way is to unlock …

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Talent Edge Weekly – Issue 360

Newsletter Workforce Trends

❓️ Are you an internal HR practitioner? Learn about my private community for internal HR practitioners, Talent Edge Circle This issue of Talent Edge Weekly covers: Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts About the Recent Employment Effects of AI (August 2026 Update) | Stanford Digital Economy Lab | Updated research shares six findings on …

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Are the Careers of Older Workers Being Cut Short by AI? | The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College

Workforce Planning Workforce Trends

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  Most of the current AI-and-jobs conversation, including my own recent coverage, has centered on entry-level role impact and the risk of failing to develop the next generation of leaders. But there are also impacts at the other end of the career …

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How Remote Work Is Narrowing Early-Career Opportunities | Harvard Business Review

Talent Acquisition Uncategorized

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  Over the last few months, I have shared multiple resources on how AI is reshaping entry-level and early-career roles, from a section of Stanford’s AI Index report on employment declines in AI-exposed junior positions to the World Economic Forum’s report on …

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