No business plan in 2020 had Covid contingency plan on it. No one had a crystal ball that told us exactly what will happen and 2020 taught us that very quickly. Our ability to map a business future is possible, and we are looking back at 2020 at four key areas that affected a business trading success and how we can learn to map our future success.

• Preparedness

• Ability to act

• Agility to react, respond and pause.

• Limitations of a 12-month perspective

What do we mean by future-proofing?

Initially, the technology industry created this word to design software, content, and more linked products to be still used in the future even when technological change occurs. However, it has now morphed across our wider lives into protecting ourselves from external change.

We will use future-proofing in the context of looking at how we can enhance our ability to protect ourselves and our business from any future external influence through our internal actions. So the time has come for us to focus on a new level of thinking, which has been here the whole time

For the last 30 years, we have lived in a time where society has become so much is done by the few.  It is up to us to decide whether the circumstances of COVID-19 will give us a chance to readdress this and decide if we are serious about the forced lessons placed on us right now around the world.

Humankinship has a series of attributes that we have to make a choice about do we do them or not?

Let’s get real about emotions in the workplace. The bias that sits with emotions is not resigned to work it’s everywhere. Yet in work, it seems we are less tolerant, less perceptive of others emotions, ignorant [1] even and if you place to be more emotional than men then we have - although it is been proven men are 60% more emotional in the workplace than women [2]?

Your current mindset is a choice you made at a very early age and then continued to choose time and time again right up until this moment.  It's something that can be changed and altered by making new choices. To develop who you are as a leader, simply make good choices and when you are not choosing, ensure you ask yourself the right questions.

 The difference we know now from the latest neuroscience is that it’s not just mindset or motivation but also our culture, and environment that impact our choices and therefore, the outcomes.

No business plan in 2020 had Covid contingency plan on it. No one had a crystal ball that told us exactly what will happen and 2020 taught us that very quickly. Our ability to map a business future is possible, and we are looking back at 2020 at four key areas that affected a business trading success and how we can learn to map our future success.

• Preparedness

• Ability to act

• Agility to react, respond and pause.

• Limitations of a 12-month perspective