The Gartner Talent Angle

Steve Herz argues positive feedback can limit personal and professional growth, while constructive feedback can lead to self improvement. He frames these insights using three communication traits: authority, warmth, energy (AWE). According to Herz, individuals can leverage the AWE framework to more effectively communicate and connect. Steve Herz is a talent agent and career advisor, as well as the...

*This spotlight is an excerpt from our 2019 interview. It's not easy to deliver more value from less work. Steve Denning, author of The Age of Agile, argues that even global giants don't have to be born agile in order to become agile. Listen to this episode of the Talent Angle to understand how organization can harness the power of their teams, customers and networks to deliver value on a larger s...

Too many leaders and organizations mistakenly base talent and business decisions on conventional wisdom—much of which damages employees individually and the workforce broadly. In his book "Nine Lies About Work: A Free Thinking Leader's Guide to the Real World," Ashley Goodall explores how real-world evidence contradicts universally-held workplace beliefs. Goodall discusses the truth behind the lie...

How do we develop talent to prepare for an uncertain future? How can HR evolve to influence organizational strategy? Tune in to hear Ceree Eberly, former Chief People Officer at Coca-Cola and Chair of Gartner's CHRO Global Leadership Board, discuss the future of HR. 

On this episode of the Talent Angle podcast, executive Nancy Duarte shares  insights from her new book DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action through Story . Duarte emphasizes the importance of empathy when presenting data, offers compelling structures for storytelling and outlines strategies to craft data-driven recommendations. Nancy Duarte  is a communication expert who has been featured in...

What if everything you've been taught about management is wrong? Aaron Dignan, author of Brave New Work , believes that our organizations are broken not by our people or their leaders, but by operating systems such as hierarchy and compliance. Listen to this episode of the Talent Angle to learn how to reinvent the way work gets done at your organization through a groundswell of autonomy, trust, an...

The majority of employers have not traditionally had programs or cultures in place to address employees' mental health concerns. But as the COVID-10 crisis persists, organizations are recognizing the importance of helping employees better manage anxieties and stress. On this episode of the Talent Angle, Sheila Krueger, Zoom Video Communication's Head of People Operations and Global Benefits, and D...

Succeeding as a leader requires you to create conditions that enable others to thrive and perform. But too often, leaders overly center themselves in an effort to ensure effectiveness. In her new book, Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei challenges our existing models of leadership. She proposes a different or...

Psychological Safety in the workplace is critical for fostering employee performance and innovation. Tune in to this episode of the Talent Angle to hear Amy Edmondson - Harvard Business School professor and author of The Fearless Organization - share how to create a culture where employees feel safe expressing their ideas, correcting their mistakes and turning their thoughts into actions. 

Harvard Business School Professor, Tsedal Neeley, joins the Talent Angle to discuss how companies can adjust to a remote work environment due to the COVID-19 crisis. Neeley offers guidance for leaders and managers to maintain employee productivity and wellbeing amid a global pandemic.

Companies often assume their workplace cultures are ones with high levels of integrity. But too many rely on reactive rather than proactive approaches to managing misconduct. On this episode of Gartner's Talent Angle, Rob Chesnut, Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb, offers practical advice on creating organizational culture with intentional integrity. Chestnut also lays out how companies can effective...

*This interview was excerpted from our 2019 interview. Is great leadership a myth? General Stan McChrystal, co-author of Leaders: Myth and Reality , joins the Talent Angle to debunk the many myths that surround the concept of leadership. Drawing from the examples set by history's most renowned leaders, Stan believes the lessons we commonly draw from their lives are seldom the correct ones. Listen...

The #MeToo movement has called attention to the prevalence of workplace misconduct. In response, organizations across industries and sectors have had to confront the many risks—legal, reputational, and financial—misconduct and harassment pose to their bottom line. In her book #MeToo in the Corporate World: Power, Privilege, and the Path Forward , labor economist and award-winning author Sylvia Ann...

The world is changing faster and faster and the only way to thrive is to accept the inevitability of change. Blitzscaling is all about rapidly growing and scaling a business or product in the face of uncertainty. Listen to Chris Yeh discuss the techniques that digital companies like Google, Linkedin and Facebook use to scale and double in size in a short period of time.    An active angel investor...

As a growing number of companies experiment with maintaining partial or fully remote workforces, HR teams are reevaluating the need for a traditional office environment. In this replay of a 2018 Talent Angle episode, Brian De Haaff discusses how business leaders can drive and sustain high performance from their remote workforce. De Haaff, author of Lovability , believes a remote workforce can func...

Few of us work in roles designed to our personal specifications. In his new book Personalization at Work: How HR Can Use Job Crafting to Drive Performance, Engagement and Wellbeing , Rob Baker argues that employees thrive when allowed to craft their roles to fit their strengths. Baker provides HR leaders and professionals with tools and guidance to create workplace environments that empower employ...

*This interview was excerpted from our 2018 interview. Humankind is on the brink of an unprecedented technological transformation, and people and organizations that prepare properly have a massive opportunity ahead of them. Listen to Peter Hinssen, business school lecturer, futurist and author of The Day After Tomorrow as he discusses the technological changes that will fundamentally change how we...

Companies are facing a "new normal", which is testing operational and financial resilience. With nearly all industries and organizations affected, the leadership response will define an organization's values for years to come. Martin Whittaker, CEO of JUST Capital joins the Talent Angle podcast to discuss why prioritizing all stakeholders — including employees, customers, communities of operation,...

Culture change efforts often yield little more than a survey assessing current culture followed by ineffective action steps to achieve change. On this episode of the Gartner Talent Angle, Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft's Chief People Officer, shares how Microsoft not only incites culture change, but also how they foster a growth mindset to ensure employees are comfortable learning and failing in order...

Growing your business is harder to accomplish than ever before. Tune in to this podcast to hear Tiffani Bova – a Salesforce growth expert and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business – confront this business imperative with ten straightforward paths to successful growth and develop your game plan with this simple equat...

Shawn T. Smith is a clinical psychologist in Denver, Colorado, and the author of five books, including Surviving Aggressive People and The User's Guide to the Human Mind. Aggressive people can lay a dark cloud of negative energy over any workplace, from the manufacturing line to the boardroom. Listen to this podcast to hear Shawn Smith--a clinical psychologist and the author of Surviving Aggressiv...

*This interview is excerpted from our 2018 interview. Inclusion can be far more than a feel-good sideline. Google's Kat Holmes joins the Talent Angle to show how inclusion can spur innovation, catalyze creativity, and boost the bottom line. 

In his book Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , Stefan Thomke shares that bright ideas and decisive actions alone do not create innovation. Instead, innovation depends on a culture of experimentation which values the science of testing. By stripping big ideas into hypotheses to test what does and doesn't work, organizations are better positioned to establish a com...

Being a good leader requires understanding how your actions affect others' motivation and mental state. Christine Comaford, entrepreneur and bestselling author of Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent Times , breaks down the neuroscience of effective leadership to a level that you don't need a Ph. D. to understand. 

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, both employers and employees are coming to terms with the economic and societal impacts. Given the widespread disruption, many are concerned with prospects for growth and recovery, as well as the potential for lasting structural impact. Brian Kropp, Gartner's Chief of HR Research, joins the Talent Angle podcast to discuss how HR leaders can effecti...