5. Talent & Succession
Talent review evidence standards
From folklore to evidence
Use when
Upgrading talent reviews from folklore to evidence
- 1
Behaviour-anchored
Claims tied to observed examples against defined criteria; adjectives are challenged
- 2
Calibrated
Multiple voices test each placement; bias hunted openly (recency, similarity, halo)
- 3
Documented
Decisions and rationale logged; next actions owned and dated
- 4
Revisited
Movement checked next cycle; a static grid means nothing happened
How to use it
These four standards convert the same 9-box meeting from personality contest to evidence process. The facilitator's job is bias interruption: 'what did you see them do?' is the question that does most of the work. Documentation doubles as legal defensibility for promotion and development decisions.
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- Model type
- Sequence
- Origin status
- Synthesis
- Content last reviewed
- 28 July 2026
Origin
SynthesisAssembled here from bias-interruption and structured-assessment practice.