Improving leaders’ effectiveness and managing change are among the top priorities for HR leaders next year (2023), finds a global survey by consultancy, Gartner.
The top five areas HR professionals want to focus on next year are: leader and manager effectiveness (60%), organisational and change management (53%), employee experience (47%), recruiting (47%) and the future of work (42%), according to the survey of 860 HR leaders across 60 countries and all major industries to identify their priorities and challenges for 2023.
As today’s work environment changes, leadership must change too, according to the Top 5 Priorities for HR Leaders in 2023 report.
Executives are facing a “triple squeeze” of pressures, with rising inflation, scarce and expensive talent and global supply constraints driving priorities, says the report.
Meanwhile, the three environmental shifts of social and political turbulence, ‘work-life fusion’ and flexible work arrangements are redefining the leader-employee dynamic into a human-to-human relationship, says the report.
The human-to-human dynamic in the workplace requires leaders to display “human-centric” leadership, defined as leading with authenticity, empathy and adaptivity. They need to act with purpose and enable true self-expression for themselves and their teams, show genuine care, respect and concern for employee well-being, and enable flexibility and support that fit the unique needs of team members, recommends the report.
In the new climate of social and political turbulence, rather than focusing on enabling workplace boundaries, leaders need to enable safe self-expression at work, the report recommends.
To address the shift towards more work-life fusion, where people have increasingly visible personal lives, leaders should move from addressing work needs to addressing life needs, it recommends. With the shift towards more hybrid working arrangements, the focus needs to be on managing tailored, flexible workflows rather than standardised workflows.
A quarter said their current development approach doesn’t prepare leaders for the future of work, with 51% of HR leaders saying their workforce planning is limited to headcount planning. Some 36% said their recruitment strategies are insufficient for finding the skills their organisation needs.
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