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AI is changing how employers evaluate employee performance, address misconduct, and plan workforce reductions. For HR leaders, these tools offer potential efficiencies but also raise new compliance questions and obligations. For example, when technology influences – or makes – an employment decision, who is responsible for verifying the result, and what must an employer disclose […]
Performance reviews and management have been the biggest chores for HR professionals for decades, slowing down work and always seeming to create more clutter than they do results. But what if there was a way to approach performance management that actually supported employees, exposed growth opportunities, and built a business’s workforce rather than just stagnate […]
The $400 billion Learning & Development industry is built on a massive blind spot: mistaking activity for progress. While corporate budgets fund endless tech platforms, trendy buzzwors, and feel-good feedback surveys, L&D veteran Noah Rabinowitz points out that organizations are left rich in solutions and poor in definition. True impact isn’t about how many people […]
Driven by a passion for helping people reach their potential, Kimberly Turnmire has built a remarkable 25-plus-year career in learning, leadership development, organizational effectiveness, culture, and talent strategy. Today, she leads enterprise-wide human capital strategy as the Executive Vice President of People at Organic Valley—the nation’s largest farmer-owned organic food cooperative, representing approximately 1,500 family […]
Published in 2023 by conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 espouses a number of policy changes throughout the government. An unapologetic conservative political manifesto, it calls for profound limitations on the ways government has been functioning for most of the past century. The clearly stated objective of the manifesto is to reduce the […]
The future of HR changes every day, so how do HR leaders prepare? During SPARK Talent we got to sit down with Adam Murphy, Director of People Analytics for AMC Theatres, and ask these hard questions. And his answer might not be what you expect. Check out this clip from our on-site interview with Adam […]
Performance reviews and management have been the biggest chores for HR professionals for decades, slowing down work and always seeming to create more clutter than they do results. But what if there was a way to approach performance management that actually supported employees, exposed growth opportunities, and built a business’s workforce rather than just stagnate […]
The Learning & Development (L&D) industry is a $400 billion market flooded with endless buzzwords, trend reports, and shiny new tools. Yet, despite billions spent every year, organizations still struggle to prove whether their training programs actually move the needle. As Noah Rabinowitz, Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry, points out, we belong to an […]
In today’s fast-moving business world, skills are shifting faster than most organizations can keep up. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rewriting how work gets done, and traditional HR playbooks are struggling to keep pace. Enter a game-changing concept for talent development leaders: Talent Velocity. Introduced by SPARK TALENT speaker Kevin Bishop, Director of Talent Development at […]