Stoke Leadership Notes & News
Top 5 Leadership Themes for 2024
As our team at Stoke Leadership launches a new year helping leaders across multiple industries to elevate their game, here are the Top 5 Leadership Themes for 2024 on the minds of senior executives:
- Enterprise Leadership: With fast moving initiatives and a dynamic economic environment, senior leaders need to think beyond the silo of their business unit and work collectively to navigate the business. If a business is solely relying on the CEO to make decisions about the big picture, important integrations and strategies will be missed.
- Engaging High Potentials: After a few challenging years, companies are tired of losing their high potential talent. Companies are launching extensive new high potential development programs, hiring executive coaches for their best talent, and creating new strategic positions to engage and retain the future leaders of their organizations.
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Vision and Listen: Executives desire for their teams to be more empowered and take more action. The key, set a clear vision and then ask the team to build the plan of execution. The more they can be a part of planning the solution, the more they will have ownership in executing the solution.
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Control vs. Wellbeing: The boss may feel more in control of execution by requiring 8-5 in an office. But that control often translates into employee turnover, not increased productivity. A boss can set clear expectations for results and allow team members to achieve results while also managing wellbeing.
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Stoke Collaboration: Organizations are reporting new challenges with collaboration. Leaders are stoking collaboration through national sales meetings, quarterly team strategy meetings, or innovation think-tanks. Companies are designating more time to stop and plan together.
Leading a great team is getting more and more complicated with new remote work procedures, faster innovations, new industries, and new generations in the workforce. Leaders need to dedicate time to build intentional plans to engage and elevate their teams.
