Mahatma Gandhi
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Senior Executive
According to Forbes contributor Bryan Robinson (PhD) article “4 Leadership Trends For the Future Of Work” although 2022 was a double-edged sword, it brought leaders ample hardships, but also important lessons for the future. There’s no doubt 2024 will throw us curve balls, so it’s important for leaders to stay one step ahead of what’s to come to prepare for business challenges. Robinson outlined these challenges to be managing through economic uncertainty; managing onsite, remote and hybrid work situations; creating psychological wellness; and winning and sustaining top talent.
In Robinson’s research with leading CEOs a common trend is role retention and cost cutting, replacing 2022’s term “quiet quitting”. Leaders must ensure employees feel a sense of stability, support from leadership, a sense of purpose in their work, and a connection to others.
Trends for Leadership Roles
The toughest leadership test, according to McKinsey & Company, is coping personally and professionally with a crisis that has no apparent answers, weathering the crisis and emerging stronger from it. CEOs are expected to show deliberate calm and bounded optimism.
Everyone wants them to demonstrate empathy, be highly engaged and fact-based in their actions. 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 Senior Executives
Labor industry experts are looking ahead at how the workplace landscape will continue to evolve now that the needs and wants of employers and employees have shifted over the past three years. It’s important for leaders to stay one step ahead of what’s to come to prepare for business challenges.
Key challenges that deserve leadership attention in 2024 include:
Managing through economic uncertainty
Managing onsite, remote and hybrid work situations
Creating psychological wellness
Ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion
From the challenges we’ve created a series of DGAs for you to select from, which support overcoming these challenges in a positive way.