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Business Manager
According to Gartner, business leaders faced an increasingly unpredictable environment, with evolving return-to-office policies, higher employee turnover, and burned-out employees.
In 2024 organisations will continue to face significant challenges: a competitive talent landscape, an exhausted workforce, and pressure to control costs amid a looming economic downturn. How employers respond could determine whether they are an employer of choice.
A recent Harvard Business Review “9 Trends That Will Shape Work and Beyond” highlights Gartner’s predictions and provide insights into issues management will face.
Trends That Will Shape Work in 2024 and Beyond
Leadership styles to give up & become a better leader according to 101 Productivity and renowned executive coach Lolly Daskal are those that encompass the person, not the people. Leadership by intimidation, micromanagement, inflexibility, and disengaged leaders are fast becoming replaced by a collaborative, inclusive style that creates a sense of inclusion, diversity, and inspiration, where the workforce becomes “family” rather than treated as expendable.
We’ve identified desired experiences from analysts’ and associations’ perspectives and have included them from an employee, leadership, and management point of view.
New Experiences for Business Managers
In today’s environment, the organisations that succeed at addressing the most critical aspects of work — acquiring and retaining critical talent, supporting all employees holistically, and confronting how they ethically collect and use employee data — will be able to differentiate themselves as employers of choice.
Companies can position themselves for future success by designing robust future-of-work strategies that get ahead of these trends and address emerging challenges. Managers will face challenges including:
Quiet hiring in-demand talent (e.g., contracting gig workers)
Hybrid flexibility for front-line workers
Balancing business leader and employee expectations
Driving DEI forward amid growing pushback.
Workforce-wide erosion of soft and social skills
From the challenges we’ve created a series of DGAs for you to select from, which support overcoming these challenges in a positive way.
Your Key Challenges
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