What's in store for HR in 2015

This year will be a transformational year in many areas of corporate talent management. The global economic recovery, changing demographics and rapid changes in technology have come together to redefine the entire nature of work. In 2015, rather than focusing on simply innovating in each part of HR, companies should focus on prioritizing, and remember that each area is complex and touches all the rest. In 2015, the topics of "engagement" and "culture" will likely become central to everything HR does. Simplification does not mean being simplistic: It means taking a sophisticated view of a program or process, detailing all that it entails, and then carefully and ruthlessly stripping out what is not urgently needed. Your role as an HR or learning and development leader is to refocus your efforts on longer-term team capability development, creating a function that embeds local learning teams in the business but shares infrastructure and corporate programs wherever possible.