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Workplace performance processes are everywhere you look: annual reviews, cascading goals, manager check-ins, and endless dashboards. But too often in my HR Tech industry analyst career, I see these systems devolve into exercises in point-in-time measurement rather than true momentum. This is a real bummer for growth. We continually confuse…
When Isaac Asimov wrote his three laws of robotics in the 1940s, he was writing science fiction. But the problems he was trying to solve — how do you govern a powerful, non-human intelligence so it serves people rather than harms them — turned out to be more foresight than…
Onboarding programs have largely remained one-directional, with HR delivering information, managers assigning tasks, and new hires passively absorbing content, failing to empower new hires. This has contributed to new hires’ perceptions of disconnectedness and turnover intention (Hunkins, 2025). Yet onboarding can do more than deliver resources. Empowering new hires to…
I learned hiring for fit the hard way. Early on, I hired the perfect resume. He had the right titles, the right tools and the right number of years. Within three months, he was gone. Not because he could not do the work. Because he could not take feedback, and…
Employers have long approached workforce productivity with direct resources, including digital tools and training courses. However, growing evidence suggests that a more foundational productivity blocker has been overlooked: employees’ emotions. Human emotions are a key factor in employees’ output. Stress, sadness, loneliness, and more can interfere with any workflow, often…
Every day, I am contacted by AI vendors promising the Talent Acquisition Utopia. A world where job titles are uploaded into an ATS which automatically develops job descriptions. AI bots then search for internal employees and past applicants. If no suitable matches are found, these AI bots crawl the internet…
The current landscape for workforce development is heavily influenced by substantial industrial growth and technological disruption. Talent acquisition and human resource development (HRD) leaders are facing a global trifecta of talent management challenges: labor supply shortages, rapid obsolescence of skills and credentials, and a desperate need for mission-aligned, culturally competent…
In the race between automation and empathy, the future of HR will not be decided by machines—but by how wisely we use them. The Day the Resume Disappeared At precisely 8:47 a.m., the system made its decisions. Thousands of applications—parsed, ranked, filtered. By the time Daniel, a senior recruiter in…
Most organizations do not have a talent strategy problem. They have a talent alignment problem. Employees are often hired using one definition of success and later evaluated using another. Over time, that disconnect quietly reshapes promotion decisions, compensation outcomes, and retention patterns. The issue is rarely announced. It develops gradually…
In partnership with Teamflect. Performance processes are everywhere you look: annual reviews, cascading goals, manager check-ins, and endless dashboards. But too often in my analyst career, I see these systems devolve into exercises in measurement rather than momentum. We are continually confusing having a performance system with building an actual…
Projects succeed or fail not because of tasks and timelines, but because of how people think, feel, and respond under pressure. Certain behaviors are misaligned with team performance, and if you don’t know what they are, how to identify them, or how to address them, both team environments and projects…
Talent Acquisition (TA) leaders today are increasingly tasked with a difficult dual mandate: accelerating the speed of hire while simultaneously elevating the quality and diversity of incoming candidates. Not easy tasks for sure. I see executives struggling with this daily, hoping that legacy systems will suddenly produce modern results. They…
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