5 Key Leadership Themes from 2025 Worth Reflecting on Over the Break

As we wrap up another year, we wanted to share with you five key learnings from working with leaders in various walks of life.

REFLECTION TIME

• Leaders report having little time to think. Overwhelmed by urgency, always being ON, and the need to respond to endless communication channels leaves little time for reflection. Social media distractions, fleeting attention spans and multi-tasking have made considered leadership difficult.

THE SOLUTION

• Spend at least 15 minutes at the start AND the end of each day to think – away from all distractions. Pen and paper.

MORNING

• • Revisit your and your team/organisation’s Purpose – its response to an ever-changing world.
  • Consider if you have the right people in the right positions on the boat. Who is redundant? What’s the opportunity cost of keeping them? Who do you now need to solve today and tomorrow’s needs?
  • Are they rowing in sync? Are they headed in the right direction?

EVENING

• What did we accomplish? What should we accomplish?

• What were the failures…