Bending into the wind: staying agile in 2017

How can you stay agile and lead a business when it feels like things are falling apart?

As 2016 rolled to a close, many of us heaved a sigh of relief, looking forward to a new year that offered hope of better things after a tumultuous twelve months.

But as you look ahead, have you put much thought into the way your business leaders can support your team through any further difficulties that might come in the aftermath of last year’s political and economic changes? We spend much of our waking lives in the workplace, where the organisational culture impacts the wellbeing of every team member. When that environment is impacted as seriously as we witnessed in 2016, people can lose motivation and morale can be low.

We don’t like to hear words like ‘volatile’, ‘uncertain’, ‘complex’ and ‘ambiguous’ in association with our business plans, but it’s unrealistic not to expect changes in the global landscape to have an impact, whatever the size of your organisation. As specialist consultancy Control Risks commented in December 2016: