The Value of Prompting Skills | IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Talent Development

You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 363 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Last week, I covered a new International Labour Organization report arguing that AI literacy is becoming a foundational expected skill rather than a nice to have. A new IZA Institute of Labor Economics study drills into one subset of that literacy, …

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Human–AI Collaboration at Scale: Task Criticality, Agency, and Friction Across 250,000 Conversations | Stanford SALT Lab

Workforce Trends

You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 363 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Most of what we know about how employees actually use AI at work comes from surveys and self-reports. However, a new Stanford study offers a rigorous behavioral look instead, and it is the first of three studies from a new Anthropic …

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The AI Future: A Strategic Guide to AI In Workforce Planning | Deloitte

Workforce Planning

You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 363 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. I have written extensively on strategic workforce planning (SWP) over the years, including a book chapter in the SIOP Professional Practice Series, an article in People + Strategy, and numerous resources I’ve created and published on my website. One example is …

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For Good and for Bad: The Distinctive Effects of Successors’ Leadership Behavior on Collective Engagement and Organizational Performance | Journal of Applied Psychology

Talent Management

You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 363 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Much of succession planning focuses on defining future role profiles, identifying required skills, and closing readiness gaps. These are all important. But I believe there is even greater potential in making readiness more contextual by asking: Ready for what? The same …

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AI Transformation Requires Redesigning Work, Not Cutting Roles | Harvard Business Review

Workforce Planning

You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 363 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Over the past few years, I have tracked organizational layoffs and job cuts through my layoff tracker, largely to monitor shifts in the labor and job market. One observation I have made over the past several months is an increase in …

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Talent Edge Weekly – Issue 363

Newsletter Workforce Trends

Thanks TalentNeuron for sponsoring this issue. Download TalentNeuron’s new report: The Great Reallocation: Understanding the Impact of AI on Talent Strategy. This issue of Talent Edge Weekly covers: The AI Future: A Strategic Guide to AI In Workforce Planning | Deloitte | A new 13-page paper helps rethink how SWP continues to evolve, especially in …

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Changing Landscape of Skills in the Age of AI | International Labour Organization

Talent Management

You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 362 (Best of August) of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. HR leaders continue to help their organizations rethink how the skills of their workforce will need to shift as AI reshapes work. A new 60-page report from the International Labour Organization and five partner organizations helps shed …

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Talent Edge Weekly Issue 362 – The Best of August 2026

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 special Best of August issue includes 15 of the most popular resources—plus bonus resources— from the August issues of Talent Edge Weekly. …

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Internal Mobility: 7 Research Studies and Findings to Inform Practice | Brian Heger

Talent Acquisition Talent Development

You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 361 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. With many organizations increasingly focused on moving internal talent to opportunities, from full-time roles and lateral moves to short-term projects and gigs, we’ve been spending time in Talent Edge Circle, my private community for internal HR practitioners, discussing ways to strengthen …

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Work at the Frontier: How AI Is Expanding What People Do at Work | OpenAI Economic Research

Talent Management

You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 361 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. As organizations look for ways to redeploy talent to where it is needed most, one underleveraged opportunity is moving people across occupational and functional boundaries. A new report from OpenAI’s Economic Research team offers an interesting lens into where cross-occupational movement …

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