How can we prepare leaders for a workplace that’s changing faster than ever? Here are the most important takeaways from the DDI Global Leadership Forecast 2025—and what they mean for leadership development moving forward.
Leadership
Finance Fundamentals: The Essential Financial Skills Every Leader Needs
The ability to understand and apply financial principles is a game-changer for business professionals. Whether you’re managing budgets, shaping strategy, or leading organizational change, financial literacy helps you make better decisions, communicate with confidence, and drive business success.
Simplifying Health Care Budgets: What You Need to Know
In health care, a well-crafted budget is more than just a financial plan—it’s a strategic powerhouse. By mastering budgeting skills and approaches, health care leaders can turn financial challenges into opportunities, ensuring that every dollar spent drives innovation, enhances patient care, and secures a sustainable future.
Improve Your Communication Effectiveness Before You Even Speak
Surprises and unpredictability create stress and communication barriers, even when the message is positive. Everyday habits can build communication effectiveness over time (or destroy it, if they aren’t used).
The Essentials of Authentic Leadership for Modern Business Leaders
Authentic leadership isn’t a skill you master overnight; it’s a continuous journey of growth and self-awareness. By committing to this journey, you foster trust, inspire teams, and create a lasting impact in your organization.
How Insurance Leaders Can Identify and Nurture High-Potential Talent
Like many others, the insurance industry thrives on a foundation of skilled professionals who can adapt to changing markets, regulations, and customer needs. However, identifying and nurturing high-potential (HiPo) talent on any team isn’t just about spotting top performers but recognizing those who can grow beyond their current roles and drive the company’s future success.
Leadership Development: Insights from Top Executives
Leadership in the next year and well into the future will require a blend of timeless human qualities—empathy, integrity, and adaptability—along with tech-savviness and strategic foresight. By embracing these skills, leaders can create dynamic, resilient organizations ready for whatever the future holds.
Adaptive Leadership Strategies for Financial Services in the Age of AI
An adaptive leadership approach is more critical than ever in financial services, where AI is altering how we do almost everything. Rather than offering top-down answers, adaptive leaders invite collaboration and experimentation, fostering an environment where teams learn and grow together.
Four Innovative Mentorship Approaches to Develop Your Talent
Mentors contribute importantly to an employee’s development journey, lending structure, advice, and support. Each mentoring relationship is unique; mentors might be managers focusing on performance, or they may focus primarily on teaching and nurturing growth.
The Secret to a Culture of Continuous Learning: Intent
Managers often allow the tyranny of the urgent to trump developing a culture of learning. We don’t think we have time to address issues and develop our people. But if you’re asking yourself how you’re going to find time, you’re asking the wrong question. It’s not a question of time, but intent.