Could Your Competitor Run Your HR Plan Unchanged? Then It's a Catalog, Not a Talent Strategy

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of having a true talent strategy in HR rather than just a catalog of programs.

Could your competitor run next year's people plan without changing a line? You can defend every program on it: the survey, the leadership cohort, the retention play. But a catalog of well-run programs names no constraint, so it allocates nothing, and it's quietly spending the scarcest resource you have. Strategy starts with the lever your business actually competes on, and most HR plans never ask which one it is. In this episode, Jackson and Scott break down how to read that lever from what...

People in this episode

Hosts: Jackson O. Lynch, Scott Morris

Topics covered

• talent strategy
• HR leadership
• business strategy
• resource allocation
• engagement survey

Keywords

• talent plan
• HR strategy
• business-first HR
• leadership program
• retention play

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HR

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