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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Performance Management Needs New Metrics in the AI Era | Harvard Business Review

Talent Management

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  As AI reshapes how organizations execute work, many HR practitioners are rethinking how performance management may need to evolve, including how performance is evaluated. This new HBR article notes that many organizations still evaluate employees with pre-AI metrics like productivity and …

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AI in Incentive Plans: Opportunity, Risk, and the Role of the Compensation Committee | Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

Talent Management

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  As AI continues to reshape how organizations operate, one important topic in the AI discussion that seems to receive less attention is how compensation and incentive plans will need to evolve to reflect actual performance drivers. For example, one of several …

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Recalibrating Performance Goals, Priorities, and Capacity: A Midyear Tool for Preventing Goal Creep | Brian Heger

Leadership & Culture Talent Management

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  As we enter the second half of the calendar year, it is a natural time to pause, assess progress against performance goals set at the start, and determine what adjustments may be needed. It is even a time when new goals …

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Gen AI Could Fix Performance Reviews — or Make Them Even Worse | Harvard Business Review

Talent Management

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  AI continues to influence how organizations implement various talent practices, including performance management (PM). However, a new HBR article by Boston University professor Chris Dellarocas suggests many may be scaling the wrong application of AI in PM. While companies like Citi, …

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The State of Performance and Potential: Where We Were, Are, and What You Should Do Now | The Talent Strategy Group

Talent Management

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  Two talent practices that enable business strategy execution are performance management (PM) and organizational talent reviews (OTR). On one hand, PM ensures strategy gets translated into the right goals at the right levels and executed with accountability. On the other, OTR …

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Are You Overburdening Your Most Engaged Employees? | Harvard Business Review

Leadership & Culture Talent Management

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  I recently shared my post and one-page cheat sheet on goal creep, when new goals are added mid-cycle without recalibrating current priorities or resources. The core point was that when new work is added without adjusting current priorities or available capacity, …

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The Year Is Moving Fast: Three Cheat Sheets to Strengthen Performance and Goal Execution Through Year-End | Brian Heger

Talent Management

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  We are now into the first week of April, and roughly one-quarter of the year has already passed. Even with the year already well underway, there is still time to influence and accelerate critical organizational goals and priorities for the rest …

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Performance Management: 6 Questions for Preventing Goal Creep Year Round | Brian Heger

Talent Management

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  Performance goals and objectives for the year are already well underway. Even with goals set and resourced at the start of the cycle, it often doesn’t take long before new goals are added to an existing plan. If these additions aren’t …

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2026 Performance Management Report | The Talent Strategy Group

Talent Management

If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  A few weeks ago, Marc Effron, thought leader and President of The Talent Strategy Group (TSG), joined my private community for internal HR practitioners, The Talent Edge Circle, for a 90-minute discussion on enabling business strategy execution through performance management (PM). …

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