IMPACT Leadership Model - Leadership Dimensions of the Future

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19 February 2022

By Mainak Maheshwari, Arti Motsara and Tanya Garg

As 2020 was coming to an end, we believed the world would soon return to normalcy with plans being put together to roll out vaccines and a hope for offices to reopen and resume work as before. Keeping in mind the challenges facing leaders at that time, we had looked at leadership from the point of view of the HEART (Human-first, Emotionally Intelligent, Agile, Resilient, Technologically Authentic) model of leadership capabilities.

But 2021 turned out to be more volatile than anyone had expected. We saw the rise of new Covid variants, a massive war for talent, as well as a global surge of resignations, and economies being challenged from all dimensions.

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Arti Motsara

PGDM in HRM (2022)

XLRI, Jamshedpur

Tanya Garg

PGDM in HRM (2022)

XLRI, Jamshedpur

Mainak Maheshwari

Founder, Kairos Consulting

Noida, Uttar Pradesh

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