Leadership Is More Complex. What Are You Doing About It?

We can’t typically control the change velocity, but we totally can better prepare ourselves and our teams to perform at their best through it. There are many situational drivers of why leadership will continue to be complex. The real question is what are YOU doing about them? Which ones are of greater impact to you, your teams and your organization? Spend time with your teams reviewing the list below. Prioritize which factors matter more. Collaborate to develop a plan to proactively prepare your unit and organization. Deep discussions and real time, continuous strategic planning are a must.

1.          Communication requires radical transparency and constant scrutiny and personalization

2.          Your operating environment is continuously more complex, ambiguous and less predictable

3.          AI is a combination of opportunities, a distraction and a threat

4.          Workforce expectations have fundamentally changed (role purpose, psychological safety, flexibility in terms)

5.          Hybrid and remote work complexity, synergy and leveraging

6.          More stakeholders who believe they have a say, which creates more competing demands

7.          Involved diversity of perspectives which creates strengths as well as challenges

8.          Speed of decision-making has increased involving skillful, risk and quality tradeoffs

9.          Cognitive and emotional stress and effort load is higher. Building resilience is an imperative.

10.     Continuous change is the norm and expected. Adaptability, agility and proactivity are top skill needs.