Q4 2024

HR Leaders Magazine

Explore key insights from Gartner ReimagineHR 2024 to discover how HR leaders can and should respond to their most pressing concerns heading into 2025.

Throughout social, economic and technological changes in 2024, we've seen many CEOs make major updates to their business strategies and goals, putting pressure on CHROs to ensure their talent strategies support these evolving visions. 

In this inaugural issue of the HR Leaders Quarterly Magazine, we explore key insights from the Gartner 2024 ReimagineHR Conferences, specifically focused on how HR leaders can use this moment of reset to make work better - for employees, for managers and for the organization. 

Download this issue to: 

  • Execute strategic technology choices in the age of fast-evolving AI 
  • Discover the top 5 HR priorities for 2025 
  • Sustain diversity, equity and inclusion amid social and political backlash 
  • Make recognition meaningful for employees 
  • Maintain prospective hires' commitment in the final stretch of the recruiting process 

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Table of contents

As CEOs reset their strategies, HR leaders have an opportunity - and an imperative - to deliver a work reset. To do so, HR leaders will need a sharpened focus on interactions in each core element of work: people, skills and tools. 

Organizations need a clear strategic roadmap for HR technology to achieve business outcomes and navigate competing internal priorities and proliferating technology options. CHROs can use the three steps in this article to create this roadmap. 

Candidates' offer commitment can erode if organizations neglect to interact with them between their offer acceptance and start date. Recruiting leaders can build and maintain candidate commitment by signaling this is the right role, organization and team for them before they start. 

HR leaders' top five HR priorities for 2025 are leader and manager development, organizational culture, strategic workforce planning, change management and HR technology. CHROs can use this research to get started on planning to address these priorities in the coming year. 

CHROs still face challenges in prioritizing, selecting and getting value from AI due to the variable quality of offerings, fast-changing vendor roadmaps and rapid technological advancements. CHROs can use this research to cut through the hype and make more informed AI investments. 

With an increase in the prevalence of sociopolitical challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), some DEI programs are facing instability and risk being discounted. To sustain progress, DEI leaders must shift from reactive risk response to proactively managing risks.