Human Resources Director Research Results 2022


This research, conducted at our HRD Retreat, provides a fascinating insight into the challenges leaders are facing around organisational agility, hybrid working and building a high-performing leadership team.

Key findings from Criticaleye's HRD Research:

  • Improved organisational agility is the biggest change occurring in organisations
  • 91% say their management team is too inward looking
  • Investors and shareholders are HRDs' most challenging external stakeholders 
  • 49% of HRDs say they have limited exposure to the Board
  • 94% believe mentoring improves performance of senior execs
  • 15% of HRDs aren't aligned with the CEO on strategy
In this video, we ask leaders in our global Community about why it's vital to look outside of their organisations. Featuring comment from Bill Payne, Non-executive Chair, Atento, Gary Kildare, Non-executive Director, Defence Infrastructure Organisation, Karen McKeever, Chief People Office, Drax Group plc, Genevieve Glover, HR Director, Barchester Healthcare and David Guise, Senior Advisor, Newton Europe.

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