Top 10 Talent and Workplace Articles from December – Talent Edge Weekly

1. 2023 Talent Trends Cheat Sheet | Brian Heger – Various reports on 2023 HR priorities and talent trends have been published over the last several weeks. To help distill these insights into a summarized view, I have integrated the priorities and trends from seven resources into a one-page snapshot.
2. 4 Resources for 2023 HR Strategy Planning | Multiple Sources – This reference provides four resources that can be used for HR strategy planning, determining human resources metrics, communicating a talent narrative, and understanding 2023 talent trends.
3. Talent Edge Rewind: 12 Resources for Chief Human Resources Officers | Brian Heger – I reshare a popular one-page PDF with links to 12 resources for Chief Human Resources Officers to leverage for various purposes—from transitioning to a new CHRO role to developing an HR strategy.
4. Employee Retention Risk Template | Brian Heger – Employee retention continues to be a top concern for many organizations. This one-page template provides a way for managers to assess the retention risk of their employees on 13 retention risk indicators known as ‘pre-quitting behaviors.
5. Using Experience Maps to Accelerate Development | The Talent Strategy Group – A newly updated article on how organizations can accelerate employees’ job and career development through experience maps— the specific experiences needed to excel in a role or function.
6. Managers, Are You Prepared to Answer Questions About Pay Equity? | Harvard Business Review – As compensation and the financial components of the employee value proposition become increasingly important, this article raises five questions that managers and leaders should be prepared to answer for employees and candidates about pay equity.
7. Skills-Based Organization Playlist | Deloitte – BrianHeger.com – This one-page PDF includes five resources from Deloitte on various aspects of skills-based talent practices. Topics range from a) the talent practices in which organizations are mainly integrating skills, to b) suggestions for how firms can organize work beyond the constraints of the traditional job.
8. How Financial Accounting Screws Up HR | Harvard Business Review – This article by Peter Cappelli argues how current U.S. financial reporting standards are counterproductive since they treat employees and investments in them as expenses or liabilities, which makes companies look less valuable to investors. He provides suggestions for more meaningful human capital reporting requirements.
9. ESG Stories L&D Leaders Should Be Telling to Inform Their Organizations’ ESG Narrative | Gartner – Provides ideas on how Learning and Development (L&D) leaders can inform the talent development component of their organizations’ ESG narrative. One section notes how there are four components of a talent development narrative in an enterprise ESG report.
10. Work 3.0: Reimagining Leadership in a Hybrid World | Center for Creative Leadership – This 74-page report provides ideas on leadership behaviors and mindsets that enable effective hybrid work environments. One page provides a worksheet that leaders and teams can use to assess the group on seven factors that can affect its success in embracing and operating in a hybrid work environment.

Chief Human Resources Officer – Appointment of the Month 

• ​Procter & Gamble (CINCINNATI, OHIO) [NYSE: PG] announced the promotion of Bala Purushothaman as the Company’s CHRO, effective Jan. 1, 2023. Bala will take over the role from Tracey Grabowski, who is retiring. Bala was most recently the SVP of HR, Global Total Rewards, Employee & Labor Relations, and Corporate Service for P&G.