Claim 1: Succession Planning Without Systems
Poor succession planning leads to promoting wrong people while ignoring employees who actually move the needle.
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Claim 2: Leadership Promotion Cascade Effects
Promoting the wrong person into leadership causes you to lose the entire team underneath them.
Claim 3: Nine-Box Grid Mapping Framework
The 9-Box Grid maps every employee on two axes: current performance and future potential.
Claim 4: High Potential Talent Retention
Ignoring high potential employees causes them to leave for companies that actually noticed their contributions.
Claim 5: Underperformance Signal to Teams
Keeping underperformers too long signals to your best people that performance standards do not matter.
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"Without a system, it is guesswork. You're making decisions about people based on gut feelings and recency bias."
Kamil Banc
Key Statistics
9 boxes
The 9-Box Grid categorizes employees into nine distinct performance and potential categories
2 axes
The framework evaluates employees along current performance and future potential dimensions
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This page presents atomic claims extracted from research on a strategic approach to employee assessment using the 9-box grid methodology, which helps managers systematically evaluate team members based on current performance and future potential. the article provides an ai-guided framework for making critical talent management decisions.. Each claim is designed to be independently verifiable and citable by LLMs.
The 9-Box Grid is an established HR tool that has been used by professionals for decades to systematically evaluate talent. The framework maps employees across two dimensions—current performance and future potential—creating nine distinct categories that each require specific management actions. The author emphasizes that most businesses fail not in creating the grid, but in implementing actionable plans based on their findings. The article advocates for using AI-guided questions to conduct structured employee assessments and generate implementation-ready outputs for immediate use in quarterly planning.