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In 2025, leadership is at a crossroads. Data from global research reveals both significant challenges and encouraging shifts in how organizations develop, support, and sustain leaders. For HR professionals, people leaders, executives, and senior managers, understanding these patterns can help shape smarter strategies, foster stronger cultures, and build more resilient leadership pipelines. Below is a data‑driven look at what leadership looke....

The transition into leadership is one of the most dramatic shifts a person can experience in their career. For young managers in particular, it often comes with a mix of excitement, pressure, uncertainty and emotional strain. They are expected to lead confidently, support others and make decisions, all while still learning who they are as professionals and often managing imposter syndrome, heavy workloads and increased visibility. Understandin....

Leadership expectations have changed dramatically, especially across Australia where younger employees are stepping into management roles earlier and teams are navigating hybrid work, rapid growth and cultural transformation. With this shift, organisations need clarity around what “good leadership” looks like. They need a system that defines expectations, develops capability and aligns everyone to the same standard. This is wher....

Australia is experiencing a leadership crisis. While the spotlight is often placed on executive burnout, a rising concern is emerging within a different group entirely. Early career managers and middle managers are now reporting burnout levels higher than almost any other role group. These are your newly promoted leaders. Individual contributors who suddenly became responsible for results, people, performance, and culture. They sit between sen....

In today’s fast-changing coaching landscape, leadership coaches face an evolving challenge: How to preserve the personal, human essence of coaching while expanding their impact across entire organizations? Traditional one-on-one coaching has always been a gold standard for development, but it’s difficult to scale. With AI now embedded into the world of 360-degree feedback, coaches now have access to a transformative approach th....

Developing a feedback-driven workplace isn’t about treating surveys as a box-ticking exercise. Feedback cannot be treated as a compliance task to dip your toes into once a year. It isn’t a “set and forget”. Instead, it’s a strategic commitment to continuous growth, transparency, and employee development. Emphasizing feedback is a crucial step toward higher engagement, better performance, and a thriving company cultur....

Organizational culture has never been a more critical success factor than in 2024. From employee satisfaction, to productivity, business performance, and ultimately, the bottom line. With continuous disruptions to the workplace around remote/hybrid work, AI integrations, and the increasing focus on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG). Truth is, conducting regular check-in surveys is a necessity. A questionnaire that deep dives into the emp....

360-feedback surveys have long been hailed as a cornerstone of leadership development within organizations. Yet, they have predominantly targeted mid to upper management, leaving junior staff out of the equation. It’s no secret that 360-feedback surveys are a key ingredient in developing managers into great leaders and refining great leader’s self-awareness. However, the lack of application to junior employees remains a mystery. Organ....

We ended last year with a 2023 Leadership Checklist, where we reviewed the top five challenges that leaders and organizations were facing across the globe. In short, the challenges can be summarized with just one word – Uncertainty. Across the board, there were clear signs of leaders having a lack of confidence in themselves – their impact on their people, and their organization. Accompanied by the increasing lack of trust from employ....

Given how dynamic the business landscape has gotten over the past few years, small to medium-sized business (SMBs) organizations are facing more unique challenges than ever before. Leadership, has always been a delicate topic in SMBs. Our team at MRS loves a phrase that we call – realisation point. This is where SMB’s are on the verge of breaking though into being a larger organization, but they realise their Senior Leadership Team (S....