What is 9-box talent review? The 9-box talent review grid is a popular HR tool used to measure employee performance and to identify employees with leadership potential. Created by McKinsey in 1970 ...

The 9-box talent grid categorizes your people into nine categories. The grid contains two axes, performance and potential, each of which includes three levels each: low, moderate, and high.

The 9-box grid is most commonly used in succession planning as a method of evaluating an organisation's current talent and identifying potential leaders. The boxes on the grid indicate where ...

What’s not to like about the nine-box grid (NBG)? It’s free, easy to use and ubiquitous. With so much in its favour, surely the NBG should qualify as a reassuring certainty of talent management?