Hi Reader, Daria's here. When I start with a new company — or when I mentor an HR leader — the first number I ask for is attrition in the first 90 days. Why? Because when people leave that early, nothing else you build will hold. You can redesign performance management, rewrite the values, run the workshops. None of it lands in a company where people don't want to stay. That's why I wanted to talk to Nate Hill on this week's Built by People Leaders. Nate spent years building People functions...

Hi Reader! Last month I ran a few team sessions helping companies build their AI governance structures. And honestly, I think it's a great place to start the conversation about what's right and what's wrong about how we use AI, before the full company rollout. Because when something becomes a norm, it's extremely hard to reverse it and put new rules in place. But when you start having these conversations early on — when you don't have anyone fully on board yet, when there are more questions...

Hi Reader, Daria's here. I've been running leadership programs for years, across very different industries. And the best ones weren't much different in content or in the facilitator. There was always something else that made a program work. The problem with most training is that nothing changes after it's finished. People learn something, go back to their desks, and carry on exactly as before. We tend to blame the content, or the facilitator, or the people. It's rarely any of those. The...