AI strategy for HR: from pilot projects to a board-level mandate

The organizations making genuine progress are working backward from a specific, well-defined operational problem — not forward from "what can this AI tool do."

Hiring HR professionalsTracey ThompsonAugust 29, 2026Tracey Thompson

Why is a VP of Employee Relations a strategic hire?

A VP of Employee Relations isn't overhead. It's the function that protects everything else you're trying to build — your culture, your talent brand, and, not incidentally, your own credibility as the person the board holds accountable when things go wrong.

Hiring HR professionalsSally-Anne BarberAugust 27, 2026Sally-Anne Barber

The CHRO's Reckoning

Skills-based talent frameworks quietly undermine decades of pay-banding, career-ladder, and org-design logic built around titles.

HR musingsJordan Smith-RandallAugust 19, 2026

Hiring for HR Shared Services leaders: traditional versus extraordinary

Staffing your HR shared services function well requires a very different read on candidates than say, talent management or employee relations. The skills that matter are less visible, and the failure modes are easier to miss in an interview.

Hiring HR professionalsTracey ThompsonAugust 3, 2026Tracey Thompson

CHRO’s guide to hiring the best global Total Rewards leader

For the modern Chief Human Resources Officer, “total rewards” is no longer just a hiring and retention tool. It is in fact one of the largest corporate liabilities and strategic levers on the balance sheet.

Hiring HR professionalsIan MaelJuly 21, 2026Ian Mael

8 tips to help your transition into a new leadership role

Transitioning into a new leadership role isn't about arriving with all the answers — it's about arriving with the right questions, genuine curiosity, and the humility to learn before you lead.

Job seeking successJordan Smith-RandallJuly 21, 2026

How do you manage culture as a CHRO?

Reorganizations, AI-driven role redesign, and rapid shifts in working and operating models all put enormous strain on the informal systems that hold culture together.

Hiring HR professionalsLeanne MorrisJuly 16, 2026Leanne Morris

Pros and Cons of Paying a Professional Resume Writer

No matter who writes it, you're the one who has to speak confidently to every claim on that page in an interview. Outsourcing the writing doesn't outsource the responsibility of truly knowing your own resume and work history

Job seeking successJordan Smith-RandallJuly 5, 2026

From Shared Services to HR Operations: A Function Redefining Itself

None of this means shared services disappears as a concept as the transactional backbone still has to run flawlessly. But the function's center of gravity has moved.

Hiring HR professionalsLeanne MorrisJune 24, 2026Leanne Morris

The Executive Bottleneck: how HR stalls Tech, Life Sciences, and Manufacturing growth

...too often, when a company misses its quarterly targets, the bottleneck turns out not to be related to product design or market demand. Instead, our Execs share that the failure is frequently down to talent strategies not being aligning to operational capacity.

Hiring HR professionalsSally-Anne BarberJune 7, 2026Sally-Anne Barber

Beyond the Ulrich model for HR evolution

Without deliberate governance, "fluid" can easily become "unclear," reintroducing the same friction the original model struggled with, just in a new form.

Hiring HR professionalsIan MaelMay 10, 2026Ian Mael

Talent Management Hiring Tips

Talent management, done well, is one of the highest-leverage functions in HR: it determines who leads your organization five and potentially ten years from now.

Hiring HR professionalsIan MaelApril 5, 2026Ian Mael