5-Part On-Demand Series: Unbreakable HR: Elevate HR’s Business Impact in 2025

Session 1: Skills Intelligence

Find out what 1.7k+ viewers learned about how CHROs and their leadership teams can focus their investments on the skills that drive performance in 2025 and beyond.  

Rated: 4.3 out of 5

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Rapidly evolving business priorities and labor market conditions means HR could struggle to ensure workforce readiness. Skills-based talent management approaches promise a greater ability to match talent demand and supply but CHROs and their teams are finding the process of identifying and validating skills to be far more challenging, and expensive, than anticipated. While HR leaders endeavor to address the challenges of skills-based talent management, critical skills gaps continue to grow and threaten business performance. The promise of a skills-based strategy is enormous, but so is the potential investment required to deliver on that promise. To boost workforce readiness in today’s labor market, the best CHROs focus skills intelligence investments on  roles that are experiencing rapid, business-critical change.

In this session, the first in the Gartner Unbreakable HR Series, Gartner experts Dion Love and Keyia Burton will discuss how CHROs and their leadership teams can focus their investments on the skills that drive performance in 2025 and beyond. 

• Learn how to prioritize skills intelligence investments to increase workforce readiness

• Understand how to build an approach to skills intelligence for all roles that deliver workforce readiness for today and tomorrow

Session 2: Leadership Skill Building

Join 1.3k+ viewers who discovered specific ways CHROs can boost the future-readiness of their leadership bench.

Rated: 4.7 out of 5

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It’s a challenging time to be a leader, and a challenging time to build leaders. Today, leaders at all levels must drive transformation as AI, geopolitical change and cost pressures reset organizational strategies. CEOs are looking to their CHROs to make sure leaders are reset-ready, and leadership development is the #1 CHRO focus area in 2025. Your teams have been busy. Half of organizations revamped their leadership development programs in 2024 and yet two-thirds of CHROs tell us that leaders are not ready for what’s next. While skill development is an important part of strengthening the leadership bench, it’s not HR’s biggest opportunity to improve leaders’ readiness for a perpetually uncertain future. There is an untapped opportunity for CHROs to set the right conditions for leaders to make sense of changing conditions, reach decisions quickly, and accelerate their teams forward.

In this session, the second in the Gartner Unbreakable HR series, Gartner experts Jessie Knight and Shawn Campbell will discuss specific ways CHROs can boost the future-readiness of their leadership bench.

• Get techniques to prompt leader self-discovery and pressure testing with peers

• Learn about best practices to remove barriers to change and accelerate teams forward

Session 3: Impactful AI

Join 1k+ viewers who discovered ways to explore techniques CHROs and their leadership teams can use to lead a human-first approach to AI strategy.

Rated: 4.5 out of 5

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The majority of AI strategies are grounded in technical capabilities and lofty ambitions, but most fall short of addressing employee work, behavior and emotions. Only 14% of HR leaders say employees have a voice in technology decisions and 20% of employees say technology their organization adopted in the past two years has actually made their job harder. CHROs are well positioned to focus on the human aspect of AI strategy, able to seek opportunities to support people in creating and building tomorrow’s business with AI. The most impactful CHROs will helm a human-first approach to emerging tech like AI, playing an active role in shaping tech decisions by anchoring against the human elements of work.

In this session, the third in the Gartner Unbreakable HR series, Gartner experts Russ McCall and Travis Wickesberg will discuss the techniques CHROs and their leadership teams can use to lead a human-first approach to AI strategy. 

• Understand how AI is shaping the culture of work

• Learn how a digitally savvy CHRO can lead a successful human-first AI strategy

Session 4: Engagement Through Change

Join 1k other viewers who discovered how CHROs and their leadership teams can foster trust to make transformation efforts stick.

Rated: 4.8 out of 5

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CEOs are setting out ambitious growth goals in 2025, and CHROs are integral to the success of these large-scale transformation efforts. They’re tasked with mobilizing their function to support the implementation of organization redesigns, new processes and operating models  while ensuring the workforce is ready to embrace change. A clear change communication strategy can help drive transformation efforts, however, 54% of CHROs agree the way they are currently communicating change is failing to engage employees. The most successful CHROs will push direct, actionable and personal engagement with change at the leader, manager and employee levels to build trust and accelerate transformation initiatives. 

In this session, the fourth in the Gartner Unbreakable HR series, Gartner experts Jerome Mackowiak and CV Viverito will discuss how CHROs and their leadership teams can foster trust to make transformation efforts stick. 

• Understand how to create positive momentum for transformation by building trust in change initiatives 

• Drive personal connections to change across all levels of the workforce to scale transformation efforts and ownership for success

Session 5: Shape Your HR Journey

Join 700+ viewers to learn how new CHROs can drive impact in their first year while laying the groundwork for world class HR leadership.

Rated: 4.9 out of 5

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Whether you are new to the CHRO role or new to an organization, successfully leading the HR function is challenging. New CHROs are charged with delivering on business priorities while establishing important relationships and learning about their new organization, industry or role. Maximizing impact in the first year is critical, requiring you to know what to focus on, and with whom, to deliver on the value expected from your role and your HR function. The most impactful CHROs establish priorities quickly and shape a plan to deliver those priorities, while building strong relationships and a personal brand. 

In this session, the final in the Gartner Unbreakable HR series, Gartner expert Mark Whittle will discuss how new CHROs can drive impact in their first year while laying the groundwork for world class HR leadership. 

• Learn how best to identify, shape and deliver on your organization’s critical priorities to build HR’s impact 

• Understand what defines a successful CHRO and how to define your personal brand to get started on the journey to world class leadership

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