The world in general has become uncertain, marked by a continuous measurement of performance and decision-making whose results are often judged to be short-term. These factors can potentially disrupt the career of the manager that you are.

The challenges for leaders

Did you know that your average lifespan at your job is around 4 to 5 years? Don't worry, there is no fate but only new opportunities if you know how to anticipate them.

Skills required in a fast-paced environment

Faced with a changing environment, every business manager must have a training requirement to develop new capacities, in particular:

• Know how to deal with a growing number of stakeholders both inside and outside the company.
• Know how to anticipate by considering repeated events, previously observed, as signals that herald a new trend on the market.
• Know how to associate doubt with a positive state, from an emotional and rational point of view.

Preparing for uncertainty

Here are some suggestions to prepare for this uncomfortable situation:

Maintaining a positive mindset

For a business leader, changes are opportunities to be taken advantage of. To do this, it is necessary to adopt a calm, forward-looking and optimistic mindset.

This attitude helps to reassure your teams, who can thus be serene in the face of any situation, even difficult ones.

Control your stress

Uncertain situations, professional or private, are all sources of stress. Leaders are no exception to this rule by being exposed to it all the more violently because they are alone.

Managing your time to reduce stress

The first step is to build your agenda by anticipating recurring events in the life of the company and to build a delegation process according to the following principles:

• Integrate your strategic goals into your agenda by leaving plenty of room for reflection.
• Be focused both professionally and personally in order to limit your attention to the priorities you have set in advance.
• Set up indicators that allow you to fully control your delegations of responsibility and to know their performance

Key strategies for proactive professional development

- Highlight all your contributions with high added value — by highlighting their results and relevant KPIs to the various key players in the market. It is by participating in round tables and writing articles that you build your reputation.

- In the same way, improve your visibility by participating in events organized in a professional or non-professional setting. Cocktails, lunches, conferences, playing sports increases the chances of contact with personalities from other sectors.

- Don't forget the importance of digital technology. LinkedIn is an important vehicle for your communication. This professional network allows you to discover new horizons by exchanging with colleagues who may have the same concerns as yours.

This is not decisive in the search for a new job but a support that should not be overlooked.

- Get ready by revisiting your CV, maintaining contact with headhunters to find out the state of the job market in your sector, by consulting the press or the internet on economic news.

VISCONTI Partners support

As soon as you are appointed, being a manager involves a certain number of risk factors that you must be aware of in order not to be subjected to them.

From experience, the time a manager devotes to training is very low. For example, knowing all its forms of intelligence is among the requirements necessary to carry out its function.

VISCONTI Partners has two tools in order to better define the contours of your fundamental motivations and the main lines of your leadership.

By developing a better knowledge of yourself and what inspires you, your vision will be more objective on the relevant direction to give to your career according to your personality and your real needs.

To help you, VISCONTI is developing a support methodology that allows you to have a benevolent exchange on all the subjects that concern you.

It is because we are convinced that the manager is at the heart of the performance of his company that we help him to unleash his full potential. There is no fatality but only opportunities to be seized.