The NextTech Emerging Leaders Opportunity

We are going through some major changes, and for organisations to survive and thrive, they will need to have strong empathetic capable leaders to navigate their “ship through the turbulent seas that will be the 20’s.”

There will be challenges and crises, but with these crises come opportunities . 

Cassandra Parton - Managing Director of Nexttech, chats with Geoff Hirsh, CEO of Business Builders Group and asks 3 pertinent questions......

• What are the opportunities ?
• What  are the skills needed ?
• How do we infuse these skills into the DNA of our emerging leaders ? 

1/4 - What is the a Opportunity ? (3 Mins)

This environment has brought in an unprecedented explosive crisis of health and safety and financial issues. 

A crisis will present challenges and opportunities - there has been a change in ways people do business - some will be temporary changes and many will be permanent .

The distributed workforce - and how to manage it, automation replacing jobs, being able to understand and utilise these new tools. 

Understanding the need to learn how to learn 

2/4 What are the Skills Necessary to be able to influence others ?

Core skills of leadership - being able to lead teams of people . Being able to transition from a line role to a management role - requires a degree of adaptation 

Interpersonal

Listening

Getting the best out of people

Giving them a framework of mentoring and coaching

Empathy 

A better communicator

A more effective presenter

What is going to be different ?

Structural changes - better ways to do things - automation - distributed workforce more efffective than a collective workforce.

Collaboration technologies that were regarded as fringe is now mainstream.

We need to incorporate these tools into our DNA

Leaders need to be prepared to cope with crisis management 

There will be a new normal

3/4 How will leaders be able to cope with the change ? 

Emotional Intelligence is core - Autocratic to Democratic - a more “feminine” leadership skill required.

Communication will need a higher level of sensitivity 

4/4 How do we infuse these skills into the DNA of our emerging leaders ? 

You will need

• Strategy development 
• Sales Skills - Art of Persiasion - managing up and down
• Emotional Intelligence
• How to be resilient 
• Understanding how to manage a “p&l”

Many have learned these skills - they need to be polished prior to promotion. 

Promote the people and give them every chance of succeeding!

You want Competent Confident Effective Leaders

Great to do it in a collaborative way with peers that you can learn from and build relationships with! 

Potential Grants available