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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Escaping the Pilot Trap: Building HR for The Agentic Era | McKinsey

HR Effectiveness

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  As many HR leaders and their teams continue to think through the impacts of AI on HR’s work, a new McKinsey article offers a few useful ideas. The one part I want to highlight is Exhibit 1, which maps the automation …

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Putting AI Into Career Coaching: The Effectiveness of A Career Coaching Intervention Conducted by A Chatbot | Journal of Vocational Behavior

Talent Development

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  I recently had the pleasure of having Dr. Anna Tavis, Chair of the Human Capital Management Department at NYU and author of The Digital Coaching Revolution (2024), join my private community, Talent Edge Circle, for a 90-minute discussion on how AI-enabled …

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