WHAT WILL BUSINESS LEADERS WANT IN 2020?

How will the 8 Key Insights for 2019 have moved?

Over the last 12 months we have provided some additional commentary around eight insights that business leaders told us were 2019 priorities. These are recorded in the Mindshop 2019 Business Leader Report. Here’s an overview of what we saw and what we predict prior to the launch of the 2020 Business Leader Report in February.

1. Training needs: leadership, strategy and culture
We saw business owners and leaders focus on leadership in both advisory and executive search / recruitment engagements. Many coaching clients asked the question “How do I become a better leader?’ Culture came to the forefront with a couple of organisations using gaps between the leaders’ views of culture and the team’s to develop a new approach to strategy.

This will not go away and we expect culture to play a stronger part in this in 2020. We’ve seen organisations understand that if they do not develop a culture that embraces the strategy then they will have ongoing operational challenges.

2. Are you too lean to grow?
We certainly did not see businesses making themselves “Fatter to grow” but we did see concerted efforts to understand how leaders and executive teams could increase their capacity before they started to work on their capabilities. More often than not this started with the individual executives looking at themselves.