As ADAPT’s latest data shows, retaining and attracting talent is a top priority for regional finance, digital, and IT leaders. Keeping and developing talent is a constant challenge for leaders due to critical skill shortages.

Organisations must improve operational effectiveness and leadership development to ensure productivity, engagement, and optimisation across the organisation.

We must ensure our leaders are prepared for this new environment by ensuring they are fit for purpose. A focus on wellbeing and mental health needs to be attached to employee experience to empower individuals and teams to direct their learning.

A great opportunity exists to augment these challenges. As a first step, rotate talent within the organisation, provide people with more options, and develop them to feel valued.

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Top 4 Business priorities for people leaders in 2022: attracting and retaining talent, improving operational effectiveness and equal fourth optimising costs, digitisation and acquiring and retaining customers.
  • Top 4 investment priorities for people leaders in 2022: leadership development, employee experience, wellbeing and workplace diversity initiatives.
  • As leaders, we should ultimately focus on developing and growing employee potential to attract and retain talent. We can do this by offering flexibility in how we work, learn, collaborate, and engage across the organisation.
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Matt Boon Senior Research Director at ADAPT
Matt Boon is the Senior Director for Strategic Research at ADAPT, responsible for directing and developing research content and positions. For over... More

Matt Boon is the Senior Director for Strategic Research at ADAPT, responsible for directing and developing research content and positions.

For over 30 years, Matt has worked in research and advisory, including senior leadership roles at Gartner as Principal Analyst, Research Director, and Managing Vice President, where his 18 year history included working with Dell, Microsoft, and many others.

Throughout his career, Matt has been a sought after and highly respected authority on the local and global IT landscape.​ He interacts with executives daily, bringing together groups of C-suite leaders to discuss and prepare for the challenges and opportunities they face.​
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At ADAPT, Matt hosts numerous industry-leading business and technology events which Matt chairs, including the yearly Security Edge conference, delivering unique market trends and white-papers, advising executives across the technology provider landscape to make informed IT decisions.​

When he is not working, Matt enjoys walking the many trails of the NSW Southern Highlands, travelling and listening to music. He is also partial to a good steak and nice glass of red wine.

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