Trust & Governance for Skills-Based Decisions
The assurance layer that makes skills-based talent decisions defensible. TalentGuard provides the evidence, controls, and decision trails enterprises need to apply role standards consistently—so decisions hold up under review, challenge, and change.
The New Requirement: Defensible Talent Decisions
Why Trust & Governance Exists
When talent decisions carry risk, trust becomes infrastructure.
Enterprises are making higher-stakes talent decisions more frequently—promotions, mobility, succession, redeployment, and workforce planning—often under scrutiny from leaders, employees, regulators, and auditors.
We support the scrutiny moments, such as show me:
- the standard we used
- the evidence behind that readiness call
- how we applied it consistently
- what changed—and who approved it
What Trust & Governance Covers
What’s included in the assurance layer
Trust & Governance is how TalentGuard makes decisions reviewable and repeatable across the enterprise.
Four assurance domains:
- Standards Governance — ownership, approvals, and change control for role and skill standards
- Evidence & Provenance — where skill/readiness signals come from and how current they are
- Explainability — clear “why” behind readiness and recommendations
- Decision Trails — replayable records linking standards + evidence → outcomes
Assurance Artifacts
What you can show when challenged
Implementation (Trust-first rollout)
Establish trust first, then scale
- Identify the decisions that require defensibility first
- Confirm ownership and governance model
- Stand up standards + evidence discipline in an initial scope
- Operationalize review cycles and exception handling
- Expand across job families, regions, and use cases
