Though the hiring pace seems to be slowing a bit, many organizations still have significant gaps in their employee rosters. These gaps are addressed day to day by work either being de-prioritized or, more often, current employees covering the workload, often leading to frustration and burnout. Closing open roles is key to productivity, business performance, and employee morale.

Identifying people managers for your organization is one of the most important tasks because of the impact of not having the right people in place. Though there should be a best practice for identifying who should take on people leadership responsibilities, I have not seen one put into practice.

One size fits all doesn’t make sense anymore in the workplace. The flexibility I might value will be different from that of a co-worker who has different priorities and needs. With technology innovations, there shouldn’t need to be one answer for how, where, and when people work.