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  • Weigh In: What’s Hot in Talent Acquisition and Recruiting in 2020?

    Click here to give your vote in 20 seconds or less.  One of the most fun pieces of my work is getting the opportunity to tap into the ideas, energy, and creativity from HR and talent leaders like you and then share that insight with the rest of the world. This year we are revisiting our…

  • 13+ HR Case Studies: Recruiting, Learning, Analytics, and More

    13+ HR Case Studies: Recruiting, Learning, Analytics, and More

    Reposting a piece from the blog over at Lighthouse Research because I know not all of you subscribe over there! As someone who has worked in the HR profession, I know well the full value of stories, examples, and case studies. At the end of the day, practitioners like us wanted to know that we…

  • 5 Research-Backed Performance Management Practices of Great Companies [Webinar]

    5 Research-Backed Performance Management Practices of Great Companies [Webinar]

    Instead of just hating on performance management processes, why don’t we do something about them? We hear a lot of stories about companies with rainbows and unicorns. Everything is perfect and happy. But the reality is most of us have challenges, and this is a real look at the specific practices we can use to…

  • Compensation Transparency: Advice for Getting the Balance Just Right

    When we think about tools like Expedia and Yelp, we realize the value of transparency in the marketplace. The underlying issue is information asymmetry – when one party has more information than the other, that party has additional leverage in a discussion or negotiation. Leveling the playing field between two parties in an exchange helps…

  • Performance Management, Culture, and Business Results [New Research]

    This summer at Lighthouse we’ve been working our way through a number of research studies, but to be honest one of the ones I’ve been incredibly pumped about is focused on performance management. It’s probably because I get a sense of the discontent around this practice regardless of where I go and who I speak…

  • My Anniversary

    I attended the WorkHuman conference a few weeks ago in Arizona and connected with many friends and colleagues that I hadn’t seen in a while, and each of them asked how my work was going. This week marks my one year anniversary of running Lighthouse Research & Advisory, and it has been such a joy. Here is…

  • 2017 Priorities for Talent Leaders: Strategy, Process, Impact

    The new year brings new challenges and opportunities as we attempt to whip our HR and recruiting functions into shape. One of the new projects we’re working on at Lighthouse is our Global Talent Acquisition Sentiment Study. With more than 400 votes, we are helping to narrow down the most pressing priorities and topics across…