Heroes of HR

The fastest way for HR to become more strategic may be to stop trying to do everything itself. HR leaders are buried in administration while organizations demand more strategic partnership, technology adoption, change management, and employee leadership. Tony Buffum argues that the answer isn’t buil...

If your org chart is built from yesterday’s data, your workforce plan may already be wrong. Most companies still treat the org chart, workforce planning, position management, and organizational data as static paperwork. Tom McCarty argues that approach breaks down almost immediately because organiza...

The real opportunity with AI isn’t doing more work. It’s giving HR the time to become more human again. AI can automate the questions, paperwork, and repetitive tasks that keep HR buried. But human connection, leadership, empathy, listening, and difficult conversations are still the work that matter...

AI can accelerate HR work, but without strong fundamentals, the technology only makes bad thinking faster. AI is changing how HR gets work done, but strategy, fundamentals, judgment, and human capital expertise still matter. Steve Safier argues that HR professionals need to understand the underlying...

AI is forcing HR to confront the data, systems, and compliance problems that manual work used to hide. HR technology has spent years patching problems together with disconnected systems, spreadsheets, and human intervention. Now AI, compliance, risk, data quality, and HR technology are forcing those...

HR says it’s about people, but too often the system measures limitations instead of creating room for people to do more. What if HR’s biggest mistake is measuring what people can’t do instead of expanding what they can? Steve Browne argues that too much HR still relies on rules, rigid roles, and hie...

The hardest part of HR isn’t spotting the problem, it’s getting leaders to act before the problem reaches the frontline. A change can be backed by data, obvious to the people closest to the work, and still go nowhere. For HR Business Partner Stephen Richardson, the real challenge is turning insight ...

In a world moving faster by the minute, decision-making has become a leadership skill you can’t afford to leave to instinct. Leadership teams make decisions worth millions, yet most organizations have no real way to understand how those teams make decisions under pressure. Cognitive flexibility, ris...

AI is moving into HR fast, but the real question is whether it gives people more time to be human. AI is changing HR’s job description. Frontline workers make up about 80% of the global workforce, yet they’re often left out of strategy. At the same time, HR teams are buried in tactical work while AI...

The technology is moving fast, but the bigger HR challenge is preparing people for what comes next. HR has spent years talking about becoming more strategic. Now AI is accelerating that shift, but it also raises a harder question: what happens to the people whose work is changing? AI, workforce tran...