New year, new you? | Leadership resolutions to consider this January

‘New Year, New You’ is a well-used platitude, but as many of us happily wave goodbye to 2022, and we think ahead of all to come in 2023, most of us will be setting our mind to personal goals (Dry January, joining the gym, you name it) rather than career challenges. In fact, according to a survey by Finder UK, only 9% of people set resolutions for career progression in 2022.

It’s this low figure that’s led the team at Serenity in Leadership to come up with some lighthearted advice on how managers and HR leaders can embrace new beginnings and start the new year off with their best foot forward.

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1. Meddle Less

Micromanagement is very last year and we predict 2023 will be the year of the hands-off approach, well at least we hope so. Learning how to loosen your grip and being humbled in realizing that projects won’t fall apart without your scrutiny and that your ideas aren’t the only way, could be rather refreshing for the staff around you. Through meddling less, trust is established and you can assist in developing the leaders of tomorrow.