---
id: "action-tie-reskilling-to-performance"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Reskilling Is a Change-Management Initiative"]
tags: ["middle-management", "incentives"]
related: ["concept-talent-hoarding", "claim-manager-resistance"]
action: "Evaluate and promote middle managers based on their team's participation in reskilling."
outcome: "Elimination of 'talent hoarding' and increased middle-management support for reskilling initiatives."
speakers: ["Jorge Tamayo", "Leila Doumi", "Sagar Goel", "Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic", "Raffaella Sadun"]
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-edu-34-reskilling-in-age-of-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2023/09/reskilling-in-the-age-of-ai"
sourceTitle: "Reskilling in the Age of AI"
---
# Tie reskilling to manager performance reviews

**Action.** To combat [[concept-talent-hoarding|talent hoarding]] and [[claim-manager-resistance|middle-manager resistance]], make talent development an explicit managerial responsibility. **Evaluate and promote middle managers based on their team's participation in training and development** — as done by **Wipro and [[entity-amazon-d10|Amazon]]** (whose leadership manifesto asks, *"How have you developed your team?"*).

**Outcome.** Elimination of talent hoarding and increased middle-management support for reskilling initiatives.

This is the "shaping the mindset of middle managers" task of [[framework-reskilling-change-management]].