Make talent reviews safer
Use psychological safety practices to improve evidence quality in talent reviews.
Principle: A safe talent room is one where evidence can disagree with hierarchy. Psychological safety is not comfort or niceness. In talent management, it is the room condition that lets people share relevant risk, uncertainty, dissent, and incomplete evidence without being punished socially. That matters because talent reviews are vulnerable to status pressure. What safer sounds like A safer talent review still has high standards. The facilitator asks, "What evidence would change this rating?" and "Who has seen this person under different conditions?" The room separates person-worth from role-readiness: someone can be valued and still not ready for a larger…
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