Executive Summary
Unrelenting change in 2021 brought wavering business sentiment and pressures for business leaders both personally and professionally. Evolving customer demand stress stress-tested processes, leadership resilience, attraction and retention ability, culture, supply chains, product offerings, sales and technology adoption.
Yet despite these challenges many businesses had a financially strong 2021 and are cautiously optimistic about 2022, seeing it as a year for profitable growth.
Business leaders have learnt a lot over the last two COVID COVID-impacted years about their team, customers, their business and their own capability. Most haven’t ‘wasted a crisis’ to make critical changes to their team, products and technology while others still haven’t adapted and in turn continue to slowly slide
backwards.
Concerns about lack of time, poor focus and energy levels will be barriers to greater success for leaders. Just 4% of leaders surveyed stated they are very well
prepared to meet the emerging needs of their business in 2022 highlighting that the ‘readiness’ issue cannot be ignored. Fatigue will finally force many to release
pressure by doing less, embracing new technologies, working smarter not harder as the ever increasing to do list becomes unsustainable.
All leaders will need to ‘reset’ in 2022. For some this will mean upskilling and reskilling leadership capabilities put on the back burner for the past two years on topics such as resilience, strategy implementation, profit improvement and coaching.
For others it will be more about how to address attraction and retention challenges and the need to manage a hybrid workforce. Regardless, leaders will have to stay agile to navigate an environment of evolving customer demand and potential market instability.
Three reasons why a business leader should read this report
1. Discover global insights for leadership and business success
2. Harness practical business strategies to embed into your 2022 plans
3. Inspire change in fellow leaders and teams
Why don’t you read the Mindshop Business Leader Insights Report 2022 to rechart your path to success.