About this episode

The episode discusses the complexities and implications of the 9-box grid used in HR to identify high potential employees.

Imagine this. It’s a Tuesday afternoon, and an HR Business Partner is sitting across from a department head, doing something that happens in organisations every year, usually around quarter 3 or quarter 4, filling out the 9-box. Nine square grid with performance on one axis and potential on the other, and within the next forty-five minutes, they will quietly decide who is seen as a star, who is considered solid, and who becomes a question mark, often without the knowledge of the people being discussed. And if you ask HR professionals who have sat through enough of these conversations, many of them will admit there is always a moment where the exercise begins to feel uncomfortably familiar, where the same quiet question comes up year after year, but nobody in the room is fully willing to ask it out loud.

Topics covered

• high potential identification
• 9-box grid
• HR practices
• employee performance
• talent management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HR, Timbre Media

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