The Consequential CHRO | Business-First CHRO & HR Executive Leadership

What if the career framework your business wants won't keep the people it's built for? You build what they ask for: job families, levels, competencies, a very nice search bar. Eighteen months later, your managers forward a link, and the strong people who asked get their answer from somebody else's offer letter. The gap isn't a missing path. Most development happens in the job someone has today, and nobody is telling them how they're doing in it. In this episode, Jackson breaks down the career-path request landing on HR desks right now, and what to build instead. You'll discover: Why our profession keeps answering "where can I go?" with a framework no one actually uses How a consequential CHRO hears that question, and why she joins neither camp in the career debate What becomes possible when your managers stop sending people to a website and start telling them where they stand If that request is headed for your 2027 plan, listen now and walk in with an answer that keeps the people you most want to keep. Mentioned in this episode: Talent Sherpa: https://www.mytalentsherpa.com Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

Which of your managers with a big team is bad at managing it, and how would you know? Survey results just landed, budget season is here, and the easy answer is another manager program. But the survey gives you a company number, and the program tells you who showed up, not who changed. The scorecard counts what a manager delivers, never how they manage. So you find out someone can't manage after you've already given them more people. In this episode, Jackson breaks down how a consequential CHRO treats management as an outcome and reads it right next to the numbers. You'll discover: Why the survey and the program don't tell you whether a particular manager is effective at their job How to see management the way you already see results, with four questions the team answers every quarter What becomes possible when you put the two side by side, so the business stops promoting its lucky managers If your CEO is about to decide who gets a larger role, listen now and walk in with evidence instead of reputation. Mentioned in this episode: The Talent Strategy Group, 2026 Performance Management Report: https://talentstrategygroup.com/2026-performance-management-report/ Talent Sherpa: https://www.mytalentsherpa.com Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

What if your early career program is spreading money evenly across every entry-level job while AI quietly hollows out the few that grow your future leaders? AI now does the first drafts, reconciliations, and screens juniors used to learn on. The usual fix is one program and protected headcount everywhere. But tasks don’t teach judgment. Problems do. Real problems cost too much to hand everyone, so the roles that feed your next managers get treated like all the rest. In this episode, Jackson and Scott break down why the one-size-fits-all approach to developing talent gets expensive once AI arrives, and what to do instead. You’ll discover: Why saving every junior role can still leave you with nobody to promote How a consequential CHRO decides which junior roles build the leaders you’ll need What becomes possible when you stop treating all junior roles the same and put your effort into where your bench comes from If junior requisitions are disappearing as AI picks up the work, listen now and learn where to aim your investment before the next rollout locks in. Mentioned in this episode: Talent Sherpa: https://www.mytalentsherpa.com Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

What if your psychological safety score is going up while your senior team is getting less honest? You sponsored the program, you report the progress, and the culture survey says it’s working. But the real meeting still happens in the hallway afterward, and bad news still reaches the senior team a quarter too late. The cause isn’t your managers. It’s what the room learns by watching what happens to whoever says the hard thing first. In this episode, Jackson breaks down why the score rewards a quieter room and what a consequential CHRO does about it. You’ll discover: Why the program keeps producing comfort when what you really want is honesty How a consequential CHRO thinks about psychological safety, and the two signals she tracks instead of the score What you can start on Monday so the room learns that the hard thing and full membership can live together If your next culture readout is already on the calendar, listen now and walk in knowing what the number can’t tell you. Mentioned in this episode: Talent Sherpa: https://www.mytalentsherpa.com Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

What happens when AI takes the rule-following work off your HR team and every decision that's left still lands on your desk? You've probably planned the technology side: evaluate, buy, go live inside a year. The people side takes years, because judgment only gets built on real decisions, and your team rarely gets to make one. That isn't their fault. The policy took the judgment out of the work, the measures paid for speed, and whatever was left rolled up to you. In this episode, Jackson and Scott break down what PwC's three HR operating models for AI leave behind for your people, and why the human half of that choice runs on a much slower clock. You'll discover: What AI is about to take off your HR team's plate, and the kind of work it leaves behind Why your people aren't ready for that judgment work, and why that isn't their fault How to pick the one decision you can hand over starting this week, and hold the line when it gets tested If every exception in your function still comes to you, listen now and leave with the one decision to hand down before the agents arrive. Mentioned in this episode: PwC, "AI in HR: Redesigning the HR operating model" (August 2026): https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/consulting/human-resources/hr-ai-adoption-operating-model.html CHRO Ascent Academy: https://mytalentsherpa.com/ascent-academy Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

What if your best manager's slipping number isn't a skills gap at all, but a week with no room left in it? When a manager misses the number, you reach for the usual fixes: more coaching, a time-management workshop, a sharper feedback tool. Every one of those adds a duty to the week, and none takes one away. Nobody owns the manager's week, and every function has a claim on it, yours included. The real problem is capacity, not capability. In this episode, Jackson breaks down the order a consequential CHRO works a slipping number in, and what he learned at Frito-Lay when some 50 initiatives from every function landed on the same frontline sales leader. You'll discover: Why the manager problem keeps coming back, no matter how good the program built to solve it How a consequential CHRO reads a manager whose number is slipping, and why it's different What four moves to make starting this week, so your managers' hours go back to the work that carries the number If your managers keep missing the number no matter how good the program is, listen now and find out how much is already in the glass before you pour in more. Mentioned in this episode: CHRO Ascent Academy: https://mytalentsherpa.com/ascent-academy Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

Is your AI screening tool picking people who succeed, or just getting candidates in front of you faster? You're buried in applications, many written by AI, and the answer on offer is one more tool. But your TA report grades the screen on time to fill the month the requisition closes. Whether the hire worked shows up a year later, in a different system, and nobody puts the two side by side. The pile isn't the real problem. Nobody checks the pick. In this episode, Jackson and Scott break down why speed is the only grade your screen ever gets, and how to start grading it on who it chooses. You'll discover: Why every tool the field is buying gets the slate to you sooner without telling you whether it selects good candidates How to find out what your screen is actually picking, using records you may already have What the first four moves are, starting with one rule, so you know what to demand before you sign another vendor contract If your finalists keep looking right on paper and coming back rejected, listen now and learn how to check the bet your screen is making. Mentioned in this episode: CHRO Ascent Academy: https://mytalentsherpa.com/ascent-academy Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

Why do the big decisions about your people still reach you as an email four days after a review where you were the best-prepared person at the table? You did what the profession told you to do. You learned how the company makes money, you can read the P&L, and you report your numbers fluently in the business's language. But understanding the business only gets you ready. The hiring freeze, the account moves, and the comp changes still get settled in a smaller room, because nobody ever priced the people side. In this episode, Jackson breaks down what comes after acumen, and how to bring the people side in while the decision can still move. You'll discover: Why the business acumen you worked so hard to build hasn't changed where the real decisions about your people get made How to hear the people decision sitting inside a money decision while that decision is still open What to do with it before the call is made, so it gets made with you in it If the people call keeps arriving as an order after it's settled, listen now and learn how to shape it before it closes. Mentioned in this episode: CHRO Ascent Academy: https://mytalentsherpa.com/ascent-academy Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

What do you do when you asked every sharp business question, hired exactly what the team needed, and the business still got slower? You stopped being the order taker. You interrogate the request, test the numbers, and get real answers. Then you staff the plan anyway, and the roadmap keeps slipping. The gap isn't your questions. Knowing how the business makes money isn't the same as knowing where it's stuck, and every hire you add to broken work can make the jam worse. In this episode, Jackson and Scott break down the step that sits between a good question and the right move. You'll discover: Why sharper business questions can still leave the business exactly where it was How to find the one real constraint, sometimes in an afternoon, before you make one hire What the first four moves are for next Monday, including how to get into the room where the work is decided If a headcount request just landed on your desk with the answer already attached, listen now and learn what to check before you open the reqs. Mentioned in this episode: CHRO Ascent Academy: https://mytalentsherpa.com/ascent-academy Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

Has your CEO ever told you the year was strong, then asked for more from you at a strategic level, and couldn't say what that meant? You're the person this place can't run without. The escalations, the over-band exceptions, and the history only you remember all route through you, and you handle every one of them well. But the longest list of what depends on you is a map of everywhere you sit downstream of the decisions. Being needed feels like impact. It's keeping you out of the room. In this episode, Jackson breaks down the shift from indispensable to consequential, and the one read only your chair can produce. You'll discover: Why the long list of everything that depends on you is the reason you keep getting left out of decisions What the talent constraint under a live decision looks like, and why your CEO and CFO can't see it How to get that read into a decision while it's still in motion, so the next one comes to you earlier If "be more strategic" is the only feedback you got this year, listen now and learn what your CEO was actually asking for. Mentioned in this episode: CHRO Ascent Academy: https://mytalentsherpa.com/ascent-academy Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

What do you do when you've built the best HR of your career and the business looks exactly like it did the day you arrived? The problem lands on your desk as a people problem: bad salespeople, reviews nobody trusts, a team that needs to be swapped out. So you fix it, and you fix it well. But the salespeople are doing what the comp plan pays them to do. Until you read the number before you read the people, every program you build aims at a problem the business never had. In this episode, Jackson and Scott break down how to find the one repair worth more than all the others. You'll discover: Why strong HR work can still leave the business standing still How to find the one thing holding the business back, sometimes in an afternoon, without a new HR program What the first four moves are for Monday, including the exact question that gets you into the room where it changes If someone just handed you a "bad team" to fix, listen now and learn what to check in the P&L before you touch a single person. Mentioned in this episode: CHRO Ascent Academy: https://mytalentsherpa.com/ascent-academy Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

What if the leader everyone quietly works around isn't the problem, but the one desk everything waits on? The same resignations, skip-levels, and quiet coaching asks keep landing on your desk, and every fix you run works for about a month. By the time they reach you, someone has already called it a people problem, so you solve the task in front of you. But the real problem belongs to no one, and you keep absorbing it because you're standing nearest the door. In this episode, Jackson breaks down how to read a recurring people problem back to the business decision it's really about. You'll discover: Why the same people problems keep coming back even when every fix you run actually works How to trace one symptom to the decision that's really stalling the team What to do once you see that decision, even when it isn't yours to make If you've backfilled the same team twice this year, listen now and learn where the real fix lives. Mentioned in this episode: CHRO Ascent Academy: https://mytalentsherpa.com/ascent-academy Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

How many times have you settled the same fight between two of your peers, only to watch it come back a month later? You do it well. Separate conversations, common ground, the temperature drops. But the fight isn't a personality clash. It's a collision the company built: two roles with no line between them, incentives pulling in opposite directions, and a decision that belongs to nobody. Every time you smooth it over, you teach both sides to bring the next one back. In this episode, Jackson and Scott break down the four things to check before you referee another round. You'll discover: Why the fight you keep settling is built to come back, and why settling it faster makes it worse How to read what's producing it in an afternoon, without asking anyone's permission What the first four moves are, including the exact sentence that gets you into a conversation no one will invite you to If you've already decided which of the two is the problem, listen now and learn what to look at before you say it out loud. Mentioned in this episode: CHRO Ascent Academy: https://mytalentsherpa.com/ascent-academy Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

What if the reputation you've built as the safe pair of hands is exactly what keeps you out of the room where decisions get made? You're the one they call once the number is set and someone has to make it real. You run it flawlessly, and everyone is grateful. But being valued, being needed, even being indispensable never changes what the business can do. Meanwhile, the work itself is being redesigned right now, in rooms you're not in. In this episode, Jackson breaks down why the show is now The Consequential CHRO, and the shift that name asks of you. You'll discover: Why fighting for a seat at the table and making yourself indispensable will never make you consequential What consequential actually means, and why the business needs it from you right now Why the show changed its name, and what Jackson is asking you to do about it If you keep getting handed big calls only after they're settled, listen now and learn how to start shaping them before they harden. Mentioned in this episode: CHRO Ascent Academy: https://mytalentsherpa.com/ascent-academy Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

Why are you still doing second drafts at 11 at night on work you handed off months ago? When your job got bigger, you told your team what mattered now. They heard you, and they reprioritized. But a priority is a ranking of work that already exists, and it carries no decisions. So the work comes back as a question, a document that needs one more pass, or a call framed so all you have to do is say yes. In this episode, Jackson and Scott break down how to move the decision, not just the work. You'll discover: Why your best people keep handing work back to you, even when every review comes back fine How the jobs underneath you got rewritten on a day no one noticed, and why it gets harder to fix later What three moves start shifting decisions down, beginning with one person and one conversation this week If the work you delegated keeps landing on your desk, listen now and learn how to hand over authority that sticks. Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

Why does every decision that reshapes your workforce land on your desk already decided? Finance and legal sit in the design because the work can't move without them. HR gets a courtesy stop. That has little to do with trust. Your questions about liability, exposure, and documentation test whether a plan is defensible, and the business asks that question last. So you arrive last, excellent at the part that reaches your desk and too late for the part that mattered. In this episode, Jackson breaks down how to build the requirement instead of waiting for the invitation. You'll discover: Why workforce decisions keep arriving already baked, and why that has almost nothing to do with how much anyone trusts you How a business sorts who it brings in early and who it brings in late, and where you can watch it happen without asking anybody Which questions move you from the courtesy list to the required list, starting with one operator and one role's week If your next reorg is being drawn without you, listen now and learn the question that gets HR into the room before it's decided. Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

What if the report your team spends days building every month hasn't changed a single decision in years? Nobody has asked you to stop sending it, so you read that as somebody wanting it. But silence isn't approval. It's a blank page. Every recurring report is a standing debit that nobody approved and nobody reviews, and it only moves in one direction. The work that would improve the business is what gets squeezed. In this episode, Jackson and Scott break down how to tell which of the things you send are alive and which have been dead for years. You'll discover: Why the report everyone in your function can name is still going out, and why no one in the building will be the one to stop it What ten years of recurring reports does to your team's capacity, and why the arithmetic only ever runs one way What one instrument tells you the truth about everything you send, and why it's probably not the one you'll reach for If your team keeps giving up weekends for work nobody acts on, listen now and learn how to win that time back for work that moves the business. Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

What if the habit that makes your word carry weight is the reason the AI decisions get made without you? Nobody wrote it down, but twenty years of meetings taught you a rule: you own what you can defend. That rule earned you trust. It also has one setting. Anything you can't prove stops being yours, and right now almost every call worth making about AI and the work can't be proven yet. In this episode, Jackson breaks down how to make the calls you can't prove without betting your credibility on them. You'll discover: Why the discipline that made you credible is the reason the biggest calls stop coming to you How to tell in about five seconds which decisions need proof and which ones never did What a year of handing back the unprovable ones is already costing you If you've been holding the better read and saying nothing while someone else makes the call, listen now and learn how to put your judgment back on the record. Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

What if the system you run every year was designed for the few employees who might sue? It runs on schedule. The cycle closes 90% complete. And nearly every rating lands at a three or a four, because nobody ever declared what the system is for. Without a purpose, it defaulted to defensibility. Marc Effron says the science on fixing it is clear and the fixes are small. Almost nobody makes them. In this episode, Jackson and Scott talk with Marc Effron, president of The Talent Strategy Group, about giving performance management a purpose and the fixes that follow. You'll discover: Why a performance system can run flawlessly for 20 years and still leave your CEO unable to name who is performing How the purpose of that system got set, and why the answer is stranger than you'd suspect What four moves put the decision back in your hands, starting with a question you can ask tomorrow before lunch If your ratings bunch in the middle and your leadership team still can't get a straight answer, listen now and learn where to start. Mentioned in this episode: The Talent Strategy Group: https://talentstrategygroup.com/ One Page Talent Management (Marc Effron and Miriam Ort): https://talentstrategygroup.com/we-help-the-worlds-largest-organizations-transform-hr/ 8 Steps to High Performance (Marc Effron): https://talentstrategygroup.com/8-steps-to-high-performance-focus-on-what-you-can-change-ignore-the-rest/ Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!

Why does the analysis your team spent six weeks on keep landing after the decision it was meant for? It's rigorous, and it's right. But it was built to prove the function is working, and nobody in the building has a decision that turns on that. So it shows up on the reporting calendar while decisions run on events, and the call gets made from memory by someone with nothing behind it. Presenting it better won't fix that. In this episode, Jackson breaks down how to sort the numbers you already own into the ones that can move a decision and the ones that can only describe. You'll discover: Why the most persuasive number you own is the one your CEO has the least use for How the shelf you build to prove the function works keeps anything on it from changing the call What a year of polishing the presentation is going to cost you If your best work keeps getting a good reception and changing nothing, listen now and learn how to put it in front of the choice while it's still open. Mentioned in this episode: Book a free 30-minute call with Jackson: https://calendly.com/talent_sherpa/diagnostic Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/ Powered by Talent Sherpa Learn more about what Talent Sherpa Offers, here! Check your mandate here! Schedule time with Jackson here , if there's anything we can help you with. The Consequential CHRO is the business-first HR leadership podcast for Chief People Officers and HR executives who want to learn what CEOs want from HR and become the Chief of Work, owning talent strategy, succession planning, job architecture, and AI and work design so the CHRO and CEO build the business together. We publish Monday and Thursday mornings at 7AM Eastern. Don't forget to subscribe and we'd appreciate a review. Thank you for sharing your scarce time with us. Keep climbing!