Hemsley Management & Leadership Roundtable Summary
Having straightforward conversations is the hardest capability to embed/encourage!
Your reponses
What top three trends have you noticed in management & leadership over the past three years?
- Being more flexible given hybrid working, trust team, equality
- Remote team, Flexible working and trust
- Hybrid /virtual teams, Inclusive leadership & Leader as coach
- Enhanced focus on ED&I (quite rightly), hybrid working, coaching
- Flexible working, wellbeing, matrix leadership
- Hesitancy for new/modern working styles - fears, remote teams
- DEI; mental health; coaching
- Change & Innovation, more focus on the emotional skill set of managers, being a coaching manager Inclusion, Coaching, Hybrid
- New ways of working - particularly hybrid, with lots of managers not really sure how to lead in a virtual world
- More and more being thrown at our leaders - and a feeling of being overwhelmed. Where do I start?
- Enhanced focus on inclusion and wellbeing, at a time when this feels even more critical than ever
Practical tips to takeaway
Growing capacity, ability and confidence
- Leverage relationships and peer groups to practice application
- Give them the permission to break from day job
- "Start before you are ready" to build ability and create confidence!
- Reduce the noise (air traffic control on communications/updates)
- Allow them space to practice with other wider business areas & network on the topic
- Talking through real life scenarios of how to use a specific skill/capability. Build confidence in a safe space
- Role modelling & remove the risk of trying - create a safe environment
