Latest Research on Talent Management
Research on talent strategy, succession planning, internal mobility, high-potential programs, workforce planning, and skills-based talent decisions.
What the evidence shows
- Skills-based talent decisions outperform role-based ones in predicting both individual performance and organizational agility.
- Succession planning programs that identify and develop internal candidates reduce leadership transition failure rates significantly.
- High-potential programs that lack transparency about selection criteria damage trust and engagement among those not selected.
Common mistakes
- Hoarding talent within teams instead of enabling internal mobility, which leads to attrition of the strongest performers.
- Relying on subjective manager nominations for high-potential identification rather than combining data signals with structured assessment.
- Treating workforce planning as a finance exercise disconnected from the talent development pipeline.
5 Ways Objective Talent Assessments Improve Leadership and Succession Planning
This article addresses the challenge HR and L&D professionals face in conducting objective, bias-reduced succession planning and leadership development. The author argues that scientifically valid, be...
How Talent Intelligence Systems Predict Workforce Needs at Scale - UC Today
This article addresses the perceived inadequacy of traditional HR analytics software in supporting forward-looking workforce planning at enterprise scale. The author argues that conventional HR analyt...
UK financial year end exposes rise in false retention as ‘job hugging’ hides an emerging engagement problem - The HR Director
This article addresses the phenomenon of 'false retention' in UK workplaces, wherein employees remain in roles due to labour market caution rather than genuine engagement or commitment. Published at t...
The Complete Guide to Succession Planning
This article addresses the organizational risk created by inadequate succession planning, arguing that most companies operate reactively rather than proactively when leadership vacancies occur. The au...
The 9-Box Grid: A Practical Guide for Talent Management
This article, published by Leapsome, addresses the challenge HR professionals face in making structured, fair, and evidence-based talent decisions amid budget constraints and incomplete data. The auth...
How to Create and Use a Skills Matrix (+Templates & Example)
This article addresses the challenge HR leaders face in gaining visibility into existing workforce competencies for the purposes of workforce planning, succession planning, and training allocation. Th...
15 Employee Retention Strategies to Slash Turnover - Paycor
This practitioner guide addresses employee retention in the context of rising turnover rates, citing Gallup research showing 51% of U.S. employees are seeking new opportunities. The article presents 1...
Dillon reviews results of employee survey, noting performance management as opportunity for growth among other suggestions - SummitDaily.com
This article reports on the results of an employee survey conducted for the town of Dillon, Colorado, administered in January by third-party HR consulting firm CPS HR Consulting. The survey achieved a...
Exploring talent management on employee performance in Chinese higher education institutions: the interplay of job engagement and job satisfaction - Frontiers
This study examines how talent management practices influence employee performance in Chinese higher education institutions through job engagement and job satisfaction as mediating factors. The resear...
How to Build a High Performing Team + Tips
This article from Quantum Workplace addresses the question of what distinguishes high-performing teams and how organizations can build them. The authors argue that high performance emerges not from ta...
Best Performance Management System Software in 2026
This article, published by Quantum Workplace, addresses the selection criteria for performance management system (PMS) software as of 2026. The author's central argument is that organizations require ...
Beyond Employee Engagement Trends: Unlocking Potential
This article addresses a perceived gap between surface-level employee engagement metrics and deeper organizational health signals in 2026. Authored by Quantum Workplace's People Insights team, the cen...
The Great Reinvention of Human Resources Has Begun
This article addresses the longstanding tension within the HR profession between its strategic and administrative identities, arguing that AI-driven automation is poised to resolve this conflict begin...
Performance Management Framework: How to Build One That Works
This article, published by Quantum Workplace and updated January 2026, addresses how organizations can design and implement an effective performance management framework (PMF). The author argues that ...
Golden Handcuffs: A Judas Problem in Talent Retention? - Vantage Circle
This article, published by Vantage Circle, examines the concept of 'golden handcuffs' — financial retention mechanisms such as stock options, RSUs, retention bonuses, and non-compete clauses — and arg...
FedEx taps Accenture for AI training across 500,000-employee workforce - HR Executive
This article reports on FedEx Corporation's enterprise-wide AI education and literacy initiative, delivered in partnership with Accenture across a global workforce of more than 500,000 employees. The ...
Introducing Lattice Succession Planning | Lattice
This article is a product launch announcement from Lattice, a human resources software vendor, introducing a new Succession Planning module integrated into its existing Performance Management platform...
October 2025 Product Updates: Employee Signatures, Succession Planning, New Permissions and More | Lattice
This article is a product update announcement published by Lattice, a performance management software vendor, detailing feature releases for October 2025. The piece addresses the operational challenge...
Pay + Culture: The Two Keys to Employee Retention Success - SUCCESS Magazine
This article addresses the question of what drives employee retention, arguing that the combination of competitive compensation and strong organizational culture produces superior retention and financ...
22% of employees quit within 90 days, citing poor onboarding and training: Survey - Indiatimes
This article reports on Insight Global's 2025 Employee Sentiment Report, which examines employee engagement and early attrition trends among US workers. The central argument is that low engagement — w...
The great skills race: Why one in four workers have left their jobs - HR Executive
This article addresses the growing tension between employee expectations for learning and development (L&D) and employer responsiveness in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. The author's cent...
Management Leadership Program Shows Cast Members a Whole New World at Disneyland Resort - Disney Experiences
This article addresses the challenge of developing hourly operations employees into effective salaried managers within a large hospitality and entertainment organization. The author's central argument...
The Art of Leadership: Uncovering Three P&G Secrets to People Development - Procter & Gamble
This article addresses how Procter & Gamble (P&G) has built a long-standing reputation as a leadership development organization, often described as an 'academy for future CEOs.' The central argument, ...
Resistance to new annual review feature - Utoday
This article examines institutional resistance to a new employability scoring feature introduced within the University of Twente's (UT) annual performance review system via the AFAS HR platform. The c...
Leadership and talent development with a hybrid twist at Master Halco - Chief Learning Officer
This article addresses the challenge of implementing formal leadership development and talent management programs in a large industrial manufacturing company — Master Halco, a wholesale fence distribu...
Why Leadership Development Feels Broken: And How We’re Fixing It - Josh Bersin
This article, authored by Josh Bersin, addresses what it characterises as a systemic failure in corporate leadership development — a market exceeding $14 billion annually yet producing persistent pipe...
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