Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
HR professionals play a critical role in business. This topic deals with our Global HR Capability Project and discusses all the capabilities, programs, and strategies to keep HR teams and individuals sharp and fully ready for the business environment ahead.
I just spent a week in London meeting with several dozen companies and most of the discussion was about AI. The overwhelming majority of the conversations were about how companies are struggling, pushing, and agitating about the implications of AI, both within HR and within their teams.
Coming from the CEO and CFO, HR team ... Read more»
Today we introduce a groundbreaking research on the role of the Chief Human Resources Officer.
Coupled with this research we’re launching a new service, CHRO Insights™, to support CHROs and aspiring CHROs around the world.
The Rapid Acceleration of The CHRO Role
The CHRO has become one of the most critical jobs in business. ... Read more»
Times have changed. Once considered the junior executive in the C-suite, today the CHRO may be the most important of all. And as AI transforms our businesses, the job gets bigger every day. (Jack Welch often said the CHRO was the #2 most important job in the company.)
Companies Have People Challenges Everywhere... Read more»
It’s almost Spring and we’re actively preparing for Irresistible 2024: The Global Conference for HR Leaders and Their Teams. Let me give you a brief rundown on what we’re planning and encourage you to sign up soon.
First, this conference is one of the most unique, intimate, different experiences in the profession. We hold ... Read more»
This week we formally introduce the Systemic HR™ Initiative, our multi-year program to help HR professionals and their teams to transform, evolve, and redefine their roles in business.
This work is the culmination of 25 years of research and advisory consulting among tens of thousands of organizations, reflecting the need for HR organizations to ... Read more»
Next week we will be previewing our new research on the Human Resources function, and the findings are important. Let me summarize the narrative and I promise you’ll hear more in the coming quarter.
Human Resources has been around for hundreds of years. Originally defined as a back-office administrative function, HR teams were always looked ... Read more»
Fueled by new AI tools and skills technology, nearly every company wants to become a “skills-based organization.” Now that we’ve had a few years to study this trend, I’d like to share some of the realities and calm some of the hype.
The Premise
Let’s start with the premise: the idea promoted by whitepapers is ... Read more»
It’s time for a new operating model for Human Resources, one we name “Systemic HR.” Bear with me as I explain this important change.
Business Challenge #1: Slower Growth, Labor Shortage
2023 represents a pivotal year. As we exit the pandemic and 15 years of low interest rates, companies are looking for new pathways to ... Read more»
This year, as we deal with hybrid work, a changing economy, and one of the most challenging labor markets in decades, I want to focus on HR Capabilities. Why? Not just because it’s something we like, but because it’s something that matters.
Believe it or not, we have correlated the individual capabilities of more than ... Read more»
The $330 billion corporate training market is enormous, fragmented, and complex. For years it was dominated by Learning Management Systems (LMS) and content providers, each pioneered in the early 2000s. These systems served well, but the needs of employees and organizations moved ahead.
Today companies want not only a place to find and administer learning, ... Read more»
The corporate training industry is over $320 billion in size and growing in importance every day. Companies are struggling with employee retention, transformation, and challenges with hybrid work while technologies and industries change faster than ever. How can CEOs and CHROs keep up? The answer is very clear: build an enterprise capability in learning, capability ... Read more»
We have been analyzing data in our Global HR Capability Project and the results are striking. Among the 7,300 HR professionals who have completed our assessment (available to all Josh Bersin Company corporate members), the highest growth companies have significantly deeper HR skills in very important areas.
Here’s the data. We assessed more than ... Read more»
Such a crazy, disruptive, surprising world. One day it’s a pandemic, then a war, then inflation, and now a mass shooting. As I watched George Carlin’s documentary this week I had to reflect: maybe he was right. Are we really a species that may not survive?
Well, let me make you feel a little better. ... Read more»
Over the last few months, we’ve spent a lot of time helping companies build their end-to-end skills strategy. And it’s not as easy as it looks.
In this article, I’d like to share a few of the things we’ve discovered.
1/ Skills Strategy is Not A New Topic
Many companies think that building a “skills-based ... Read more»
As an industry analyst I often write about fast-growing new companies. Well, today I’m going to tell you about one I know a lot about, the Josh Bersin Academy, or JBA as we call it.
The JBA was designed as a unique and special “Capability Academy” focused 100% on the needs of ... Read more»
