{"id":7252,"date":"2026-07-31T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workai.tv\/news\/2026\/07\/ai-hr\/what-separates-high-performers-from-future-leaders-group-chro-santosh-rudrawar\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:08:12","slug":"what-separates-high-performers-from-future-leaders-group-chro-santosh-rudrawar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workai.tv\/news\/2026\/07\/ai-hr\/what-separates-high-performers-from-future-leaders-group-chro-santosh-rudrawar\/","title":{"rendered":"What separates high performers from future leaders: Group CHRO Santosh Rudrawar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Share with your CHRO<\/h2>\n<p>Santosh Rudrawar, Group CHRO at the Sanjay Ghodawat Group, argues that most organizations are misreading their own talent data, confusing high output in a functional role with readiness to lead. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplematters.in\/article\/leadership\/what-separates-high-performers-from-future-leaders-group-chro-santosh-rudrawar-51125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">leadership pipeline diagnosis<\/a> points to three compounding failures: career tracks that reward technical mastery over leadership capability, managers who lack the tools and incentives to develop others, and succession planning that runs as a periodic HR ritual rather than a continuous strategic process. The fix, in his framing, requires embedding talent development into managerial KPIs and shifting assessment toward learning agility and adaptability over current performance.<\/p>\n<h2>What this means for your business<\/h2>\n<p>The CHRO reading this should ask a sharp question: if your top performers were listed alongside your identified successors, how much overlap would you actually find? Rudrawar&#8217;s diagnosis lands hardest on organizations that have invested seriously in learning and development programs yet still fill senior roles externally. That pattern, expensive development spend followed by external hiring, is the signal that the pipeline is being built for optics rather than deployment. You&#8217;re affected if your succession reviews happen annually, live in a spreadsheet, and don&#8217;t survive a reorg.<\/p>\n<p>The most defensible claim in the piece is also the most structurally awkward for large organizations: managers are the primary development mechanism, but the incentive system rarely reflects that. A manager who grows three people into senior roles in four years and loses them to internal promotions looks, on most scorecards, like someone with retention problems. Until talent development appears as a weighted KPI in performance reviews, the succession plan is a document, not a pipeline. The fix isn&#8217;t a new program; it&#8217;s a redesign of what managers are rewarded for doing.<\/p>\n<p>Rudrawar flags AI-powered assessments and real-time talent analytics as the direction succession planning is heading, which matters less as a technology prediction and more as a budget signal. If your HRIS (the system housing employee records, performance data, and career histories) can&#8217;t surface learning agility or cross-functional mobility patterns at the individual level, you&#8217;re running succession conversations on intuition dressed up as data. The CHRO who should revise this view is one whose organization already has that infrastructure and still promotes by tenure. That&#8217;s a culture problem no analytics layer fixes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Based on reporting from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplematters.in\/article\/leadership\/what-separates-high-performers-from-future-leaders-group-chro-santosh-rudrawar-51125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">What separates high performers from future leaders: Group CHRO Santosh Rudrawar<\/a>, originally published 2026-07-29 23:46:00.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share with your CHRO Santosh Rudrawar, Group CHRO at the Sanjay Ghodawat Group, argues that most organizations are misreading their own talent data, confusing high output in a functional role with readiness to lead. 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