As organisations continue seeking solutions to the ongoing talent shortage, the need to successfully manage a multi-generational workforce becomes ever more important. Many businesses have lost older, more experienced employees during the pandemic, often missing out on the transfer of vital knowledge to others within the organisation.

Employers in the UK have ambitious plans to increase headcount at a record rate in the third quarter of 2022. Businesses are aggressively recruiting following the pandemic, yet still struggling to fill vacancies. The national Outlook has reached an all-time high of +35% – a 22-percentage point increase compared to Q3 2021.

The outlook from employers looks increasingly positive, as the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey (MEOS) shows strong hiring optimism to continue for Q2. With the hiring spree showing no signs of easing off, employers face continued challenges with finding talent.

A privilege historically only available to the elite, coaching is quickly becoming a career tool for employees at all levels of business. In light of the Covid-19 pandemic and changing employee expectations, coaching is now more accessible than ever through digital platforms, and acts as a key driver of sustained business success and talent retention.

Companies are becoming increasingly sophisticated, transforming and seeking nimbler operating models, more resilient supply chains, greener and more consolidated partners and solutions in response to heated competition, unpredictability and greater transparency.

Whether it’s inclusive, transformative or authentic – people have been trying to define ‘good leadership’ for decades. But effective leadership is the only leadership style that matters. Whilst some of the elements of effective leadership have flexed post-pandemic, other core elements remain as relevant today as they were in Roman times.

Investment in digitisation has accelerated as a result of the pandemic, and consumers and employees alike expect it to make the way they live and work easier. There is new urgency for organisations to upskill their people so they can translate data into insights, make data-driven decisions and combine the best of human and machine learning for new value creation.

Talent scarcity remains a major challenge for businesses across all sectors, as 69% of employers cannot find the skills they need. And with an ever-changing working landscape, the skills and qualities needed within a workforce continue to change as well. Many organisations are focusing on these new and emerging skills when hiring new employees, and are naturally looking at younger generations to fill these gaps.