As we step into 2025, it’s clear we will have much more change and uncertainty – but also opportunity. Your path to success depends on how well you can lead yourself and navigate your team through the year. Your focus should always be about people first: guiding your team, customers, and yourself through the complexities of the year ahead. It’s not about predicting the future but staying adaptable, monitoring trends, and bringing people on the journey.
As a leader, what are you expecting in 2025? You might have done your initial planning for the year, but we all know that our plans will change! Whatever we can foresee now, we will face a lot of change, uncertainty, and disruption before the end of the year.
For example, you might have already heard rumours about the Next Big Thing in AI: AI agents, which can scurry around doing things on our behalf. How can you plan for that now when you don’t know exactly what they will look like?
It’s easy to use AI as an example because it’s obvious to us all that it will change. But this applies to many other things in our world as well – including workplaces, hybrid work, Federal and State elections, cybersecurity, sustainability, and more!
The most thing to keep in mind as that it’s about people first.
Your path to success depends on how well you can lead yourself and navigate your team. It’s not about predicting the future but staying flexible and bringing people on the journey.
I recently published some research about the key leadership trends for 2025. Even those that are about technology – like AI and cybersecurity – are about how people engage with the technology, not the tech itself.
For more about these trends, join my online presentation very soon, where we’ll look at three in more detail. I’ve chosen three directly related to important groups of people in your organisation: your customers, your employees, and of course yourself.
It’s free, public, and open to all. So feel free to invite others in your team as well.