The Top Topics of 2024
The job-market frenzy. Motivating anxious employees. The increasing grind of work. These are three of the top work-related challenges leaders grappled with in 2024. Every year, Korn Ferry publishes The Essentials, a curated look at the year’s leading topics featuring our consultants’ best insights and perspectives. See you in 2025!
1) Leadership, the 2024 Version
CEOs got more optimistic about their firms' prospects as 2024 moved along. By year’s end, they weren’t giddy, but inflation subsided and interest rates fell, so at least the cost side of their business gave them reason to be optimistic.
Managing people, however, seems increasingly challenging. Middle managers are being asked to do more than ever before. Gen-Z employees don’t want to take on management roles. Plus, leaders have to navigate an era in which pay—for both their employees and themselves—is no longer rising particularly quickly. These stressors sometimes derailed even normally good bosses.
In this Essentials, Korn Ferry examines 2024’s toughest leadership challenges, and how some of the world’s most successful companies overcame them.
2) A Career-Ladder Conundrum
This was the year companies dialed back on raises and promotions. Experts say that anyone who wants to get ahead will need not only to achieve solid performance, but also to be creative about when, how, and where they look for opportunities.
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In this Essentials, Korn Ferry distills some of the best career insights our experts shared in 2024.
3) A Daily Grind for Both Boss and Employee
Only about half of US workers say they’re satisfied with their jobs, according to a survey this past fall. They feel secure in their roles, but for a variety of reasons—big and small—modern work seems like more of a struggle, up and down the corporate ladder. Sometimes it’s a lack of trust among colleagues. Sometimes it’s a lack of pay increases or promotions. And sometimes it’s just meetings that start too early.
In this Essentials, Korn Ferry looks at why so many people, even executives, are unhappy in their jobs, and what can be done about it.
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1wTreat employees better, they will be more motivated. Leadership is a service position, helping ensure the well-being of those they lead. Most people just want to feel a part of something and genuinely appreciated. If this is accomplished there will be much less to “grapple” with. Stop promoting the self centered “high achievers”, they might be ok employees, but are not good leaders.
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