Leadership | Future-proof your senior team

Senior executives’ health has been adversely affected by the pressures of the pandemic groups of staff. This article makes the case for their investing in their own wellbeing as a priority, citing the cost of illness and absence and the need to future-proof senior teams to face continuing challenges.

What does future-proofing mean and what would it mean for your senior team? According to Wikipedia, future-proofing is the process of anticipating the future and developing methods of minimizing the effects of shocks and stresses of future events. Where the term is used in industry it encompasses flexibility, adaptability, preventing obsolescence, forward planning for future development and plans to handle disastrous damage. It sounds like exactly what is required in our current business environment when it is difficult to do any robust short to medium term planning and the ability to bend, flex and adapt are vital.

Is your senior team up to that? We’ve been through some difficult years that have upended everything we knew and depended on, and the constant uncertainty has cut through to many of us with resulting burnout. There’s been no recovery time and we’re heading into even more challenges.

If the alarm bells aren’t already ringing, for most businesses, they certainly ought to be.