HR Practice Areas

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From return-to-office challenges to work models for better productivity, i4cp's Future of Work Knowledge Center is a powerful resource for thought-provoking ideas and data.

Using i4cp's proprietary HRBP Capability Model, we examine topics that are critical to HR business partners and the business units they serve.

People analytics have evolved dramatically over the last decade, and generative AI presents another wave of opportunity as well as challenges.

HR at high-performance organizations are closely aligned to the business strategy and changing market needs. We explore the practices of these leading companies to elevate HR capabilities.

Explores best practices on how to hone capabilities to be well positioned to capture the competitive advantage that only a high-performance workforce can deliver.

With our Culture Renovation® research at the core, we study various aspects of organizational culture and the steps needed to plan, build, and maintain a healthy culture.

As organizations face both external and internal pressure to retract their DE&I efforts, we work with our DE&I communities to identify leading ways to support the business case and better integrate into the business.

As burnout and heightened tensions in the workplace increase, we explore strategies and tactics high-performance organizations are taking to improve employee well-being, which is directly tied to retention and productivity.

Most M&As fail for a common reason: the cultures of the merging companies are misaligned or incompatible. Our research into organizational culture highlights how companies can do M&As better by bringing HR into the process much earlier.

Provides examples of coaching and mentoring practices, their growing prevalence in the workplace and their connection to strategic business goals.

Under the guidance of Rob Cross, the "father of network science," we research precision collaboration, team performance, and cutting-edge practices in employee connectivity.

Strong leadership development is essential for sustaining organizational growth, navigating change, and building healthy cultures. And yet, many companies struggle to do leadership development effectively.

Explores the trend toward more systematic approaches to succession planning, which increasingly is linked to executive development and the overall business strategy.

With guidance from our Employee Experience Exchange, we explore the approaches of high-performance organizations and how they build and manage more robust EX strategies, leading to greater engagement, retention, and employee well-being.

Examines training and development trends and highlights best and next practices in L&D, especially as it relates to employee upskilling and AI workforce readiness.

i4cp research has consistently shown that building a strong performance feedback culture outweighs all other changes, from rating scales to technology. In partnership with our Performance Management Exchange, we continue to research modern approaches to performance management.

With the rise of generative AI and the need to tap into new talent pools, we work with our Talent Acquisition Board to highlight trends and next practices in TA.

We explore how high-performance organizations take an integrated approach to talent management, to break down silos and increase coordination between human capital functions and processes.

Guided by our Total Rewards Leader Board, we explore the compensation, benefits, and well-being approaches that have the greatest impact on employee attraction and retention.

An organization's ability to respond to market events and opportunities depends heavily on their cultures and their employees' receptivity to change.

Explores how high-performance organizations enable a higher degree of innovation and experimentation, and the ways in which they are using creativity to achieve competitive advantage.

Building and maintaining a strong employer brand is more important than ever. We explore the intersection of culture, brand, and purpose to achieve greater results.

Optimizing and operationalizing resources to foster a productive culture is critical to any high-performance organization. We provide tools and research to help our members understand how to employ these approaches within their infrastructures.