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
As Senior Research Director at ADAPT, Matt Boon is responsible for directing and developing ADAPTs research content and positions. In his role... More

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

In his role at ADAPT Boon advises C-Suite executives across the end-user and technology provider landscape. Boon is also responsible for bringing together groups of C-Suite leaders to discuss and prepare for the myriad of challenges and opportunities they face.

ADAPT hosts numerous industry-leading IT-focused events annually and Boon is responsible for hosting, chairing and delivering ADAPT independent content and positions to help attendees make informed IT decisions.

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