The Gartner Talent Angle

*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 scale than ever before. 

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 lies, providing guidance to create workplace environments that better serve the people inside them.

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 several media outlets and is also a Harvard Business Review contributor. As a persuasion expert, she specializes in incorporating story patterns into business communications, and her firm, Duarte, Inc., is a leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture. She’s written five bestselling books—four of which have won awards. She’s also spoken at numerous conferences and her TEDx talk has garnered over two million views. She regularly speaks at business schools and is a lecturer at Stanford University.

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, and transparency. Harness the human complexity of your workforce to usher in the Future of Work.

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 Dr. Renee Schneider, Clinical Psychologist and VP of Clinical Health at Lyra Health, discuss the ways that organizations can help their employees better cope with stress to boost productivity and mental wellbeing.

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 orientation—one which shifts the frame of reference from leaders to those around them.

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 effectively clarify their ethical stances and motivate employees to model desired values.