Happy 2022 dear friends!
Wishing you to bring your highest wishes to fruition this year, in the organization you run as well as in your life outside work.
I am, through Growth Hives, dedicated to helping companies, corporates and CEOs provide high quality learning & development products to their employees and find balance, meaning and impact in their lives.
The need for conscious Learning & Development products within companies is higher than ever this year.
Back in 2015 – 2018, when I was running Africa’s largest management & leadership academy for the continent’s biggest IT company, L&D (Learning & Development) was still seen as a department that was supporting the business.
Now L&D is gaining momentum and becoming a business function of its own in most medium to large-sized companies.
The need for connection (managers to peers, employees, clients), especially during times of lockdown, but also generally speaking - authentic human connection - is now greater than ever.
The need for innovation & growth that is in support of the ecosystem of the company as well as that of the world, is also paramount.
In a sense, we are living the most challenging of times, as well as the most “rich-in-possibilities” of all times. Tomorrow’s heroes will be today’s mavericks, the innovative minds and hearts, those who choose to invest in themselves, their teams and in the mind-bending ideas that support the future.
Who will you choose to be? And how are you supporting the ecosystem in your company to expand this year?
Here are 3 company and leadership skills that will prove to be, in my opinion, some of the key drivers to success in 2022:
1. Connection & Care. Yes, you heard me well. :) Connection & Care are going to be at the forefront. In a zoom call with an HR consultancy with over 200 managers in South East Asia I was having last autumn 2021, one of the main conclusions that came through was that people needed to feel like their managers cared for them & invested in them. That made them feel safe and made them focus on giving their best at work. So developing the skill of Authentic Connection is going to be key in the future, because no matter what happens, a strong community, a strong internal environment can weather any storm. So Connection & Care for yourself, as well as for care for the people in your company, are what makes the organization develop a strong culture, with low turnover and high productivity in the long run.
2. Intelligent Innovation. It’s not enough to be creative any longer. What is most lucrative now is placing your company’s genius minds in the direction of developing solutions for the future. Solutions that will solve some of humanity’s and Earth’s biggest problems. That will ensure your company’s resilience, immunity to fluctuations in the market, as well as growth. Intelligent Innovation is innovation that is in service of the planet/humanity.
3. Partnerships. Partnerships are the fundamental key to the future. We are no longer living in silos, nor can we be made to. One of the biggest lessons of the pandemic is that solutions arise when we come together, connection is the one thing that makes us feel alive and held and generates elevated states of gratitude. It’s not by chance. If you think about it, the whole Universe is a giant web of interconnections. So, in a sense —> it is our natural state. Likewise, companies are discovering that working in a silo is no longer effective and that they get to thrive when they invite in creative collaborators or establish innovation partnerships with other disruptors in the market.
I have had the privilege of coaching these past few months one of the co-founders of Mauritius’s leading innovation IT company. The sheer fact that the company has more than one founder has helped them grow immensely and win numerous awards: one of them is the creative mind and focuses on innovation and the other is the creative heart and focuses on employee and company wellbeing.
I will dive deeper, in some of my next weekly newsletters, into the 3 leadership skills above to cultivate for the year, as well as others that are at the forefront.
In the meantime, there are 3 ways you can work with me:
Scheduling a 1-on-1 call for developing your 2022 strategy for L & D (learning & development) in your company
The 1-on-1 leadership coaching sessions, about which you can find out more here: https://growthhives.com/new-programs
Joining the monthly zoom calls.
We finished the year with a powerful zoom call last December, focused on celebrating our victories for 2021 and reflecting on lessons learnt, releasing them with gratitude.
Due to the success of the last call, this year there will be a monthly zoom call you can benefit from, on various life & business growth related topics.
The next one is happening next Friday, 21st of January, at 1 pm EST time and the topic I’ll be covering (with practical exercises you can take away and apply in your life) is: “Opening the Doors to Growth in 2022”. You can apply and receive the zoom link by following this link.
See you soon and don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
In joy & co-expansion,
Alina