People
Your people may be your business’ most important asset. Are you and your team getting the right coaching and development? Are you the best leader you can be? Are you focussed and effective?
Your people may be your business’ most important asset. Are you and your team getting the right coaching and development? Are you the best leader you can be? Are you focussed and effective?
Profit is the lifeblood of any business. Are you making enough or could your business benefit from a transfusion? Have you got your pricing right and costs under control?
Do you want to grow your business to increase its value, market share or to become more profitable via economies of scale and scope? Have you consistently achieved your growth targets or are they proving elusive?
Looking ahead
Anyone who has been driving for hours down a dark, country road with no street-lights, lights on high beam, watching intently for animals straying into your path or an unexpected corner understands that it is a fatigue inducing and stressful experience.
For business leaders and advisors, navigating COVID-impacted markets over the last 18 months feels like a similar experience. You dare not take your eyes of the road for a moment while staying agile and adapting quickly to whatever comes around the corner.
Tired and fatigued you can now see a glimmer of light as you turn your attention to the future. It’s now time to reflect on:
• what you’ve learnt about yourself, your business and teams during the pandemic. What has worked? What hasn’t?
• your business vision for the years ahead. Should you stay on the same path or pivot aspects of what you do?
• the strategies to focus on for the next 12 months.
• whether you are change ready for the year ahead.
Find out more in our Navigating the Road Forward paper.
The insights from our 2021 leadership insights report resulted in the identification of five questions leaders need to ask themselves in 2021 to reflect on strategies for higher leadership and business performance:
1. How will you boost your businesses value and scale up in 2021?
2. Are you building the right high performance behaviours or are you just ticking capability boxes?
3. Are gaps in foundational traits your Achilles’ heel?
4. How will you reset your daily habits to ensure you stay productive, not just busy?
5. How will you pivot in 2021 to drive greater innovation across your organisation?
In conclusion, you’re invited to document the observable leadership behaviours and traits you want to improve in 2021 and identify capability building activities you need to undertake to achieve your goals.
‘Angela, thank you for your work helping us develop auDA’s Strategic Plan 2021-2025. As you know we have a critical task on behalf of all Australians to operate Australia’s part of the Internet, the .au domain. And as we have seen during this COVID response period access to trusted online services is critical. We did all of our work remotely, surprising even ourselves – your facilitation skills were remarkable! Providing us with tools to reflect on strengths and opportunities, including everyone in discussions, supporting us to identify clearly our areas of strategic focus and capabilities – it all added up to informed, insightful and inspiring work. We are already living the Strategic Plan and delivering better value to Australians because of it!
Rosemary Sinclair, AM CEO, .au Domain Administration
Click here to access a copy of auDA’s 2025 Strategic Plan.
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