Women should not be favored over men in business. Such an approach, at its core, is disastrous.

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Learn how employee burnout can affect your company’s productivity and profitability. Find out what you can do to minimise burnout and create a culture where employees are happy and productive.

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Learn why diversity and inclusion are important to logistics. Discover the business case for an inclusive workplace and how it affects the bottom line.

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Learn how you can create a logistics company culture that brings the best out of people of all ages. Leverage the differences between generations to retain talent.

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Learn how to become an employer of choice with Gen-Z talent entering the workforce. Set up your company to attract the best of future talent.

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Learn why you need HR technology to succeed in the future as a logistics leader. Explore the change of mindset and the tech upgrades you’ll need. Get started today with CargoWise implemented by SFL.

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You might be familiar with the concept of the Metaverse, but how does it work? Making sense of the Metaverse is similar to trying to understand the internet back in the ’70s. We take a look at the logistics space with a shortage of labour.  In order to grow and digitise, the supply chain sector needs people to join it.

Companies are developing new strategies to keep up with the new industry challenges. No longer are they confined to textbook business best practices. With climate change challenges in Canada, South Africa, and China’s recent COVID-19 lockdowns we notice that in order to retain good talent, organizations can provide new positions, new job duties, and digital strategies, while also offering more flexibility and increasing mental health in the workplace.

Mental Health in the Logistics Space

With a rise in workplace-related stress, illnesses and mental health issues, 52% of working adults in the travel, transport and logistics industry believe that businesses are not doing enough to support the physical and mental wellbeing of their employees, according to a new study by Westfield Health.

Those working in logistics face an incredible amount of pressure. They are under pressure to meet deadlines, build client relationships, update customers, submit to port and tax authorities on time, and not forget the amount of work that needs to be done with the least amount of time and errors.

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This article will explain what the metaverse is, why logistics leaders should pay attention, and how the industry can benefit from it.

The logistics leader’s guide to the metaverse: building relationships using virtual worlds

Why should you care about the metaverse as a logistics leader?

It is impossible to use the internet and not come across the term metaverse these days. Facebook rebranding as Meta was perhaps the top headline that started the buzz. Artists like Travis Scott and Ariana Grande performed concerts in the metaverse, setting a new trend. In the business world, Microsoft and  Meta have already invested billions of dollars into the metaverse.

But the metaverse is not still well understood by some business leaders. That could cost their companies greatly in the future. The metaverse market is projected to be worth 1.3 trillion dollars by 2030.

Learn about the metaverse and how you can use it to build relationships as a leader in logistics.

Glossary of metaverse terms, based on information from Financial Times, Wunderman Thompson, VR Glossary, and CoinMarketCap

What is the metaverse?

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Management in not enough, become a leader, what logistics industry needs in the hour of crisis. Find out the key skills you need to develop into a leader and why logistics managers need to transition into logistics leaders in the new industry landscape.

What is wrong with logistics management

The pre-pandemic way of doing things is no longer working in logistics. The industry is facing mass resignations, labour shortages, and employee demands for better work-life balance. Covid-19 acted as a catalyst that changed the future world of work in logistics. 

40% of the employees who quit in the Great Resignation quit due to burnout and 20%  cited lack of flexibility as a reason. MIT Sloan reported that the logistics industry had a 7% attrition rate from April 2021 to September 2021.

Their research also found that toxic workplace culture is the top cause of resignation – 10.4 times more likely to cause attrition than bad pay. The popular quip, people leave managers, not jobs, is true.  

Many of the professionals who are leaving take to freelance work, using their expertise to work for themselves. Most such employees happen to be top talent.

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If organizations want their investment in leadership development to more fully pay off, it is essential that they prioritize mindset development — specifically by targeting growth, learning, deliberative, and promotion leader mindsets.

Leaders with a growth mindset tend to focus more on the process rather than just the outcome. On the opposite end, we have a fixed mindset. This mindset believes that people’s basic qualities, such as intelligence and talent, are fixed traits that can’t be changed or developed. Leaders with a fixed mindset are results-oriented to the extreme.

Taking Leadership Beyond Fixed And Growth Mindsets

Leaders who believe in the growth mindset are more likely to hire millennials, establish open work environments that promote teamwork and give their employees autonomy. They’ll also offer comprehensive training programs so workers can continuously develop new skill sets.

When you have a growth mindset, it actually stimulates your brain to learn new things with the help of neuroplasticity—a process where neural connections rewire themselves when they’re used repeatedly for particular tasks or functions over an extended period of time.

While the fixed mindset locks people into patterns, the growth mindset unlocks hidden potential.

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Leadership is a valuable and unique attribute that transforms a good employee into a great one. A leader should possess an unshakeable vision and the ability to transcend this into an actual reality. Beyond this, the best leaders in the world will inspire others to do the same.

To push the logistics industry forward, we need a united and future-looking outlook. Arguably, as one of the fastest-growing sectors affected by globalization and a string of technology advancements, it has become necessary for our innovators to be the driving force.

It’s high time that we leave behind the idea of dominant leadership paradigms. The traditional fixed leadership style that extracts obedience and conformity is no longer effective in the modern business environment, where employees are looking for more autonomy, creativity and flexibility in their work. Instead of making decisions on behalf of employees, leaders need to adopt a more enabling role that facilitates decision-making by involving team members in brainstorming sessions.

“The unique challenges of logistics and supply chain management make having the right leader a critical part of achieving results,” says Don Firth, president of JobsInLogistics.com Inc.

1. Kickstart Collaboration By Requesting Employees’ Input 

Many companies today have become so large and complex that decision-making has become an arduous task, taking months or even years to go through several layers of approval.

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How did Mr. Rishan Barat from South Africa become a business leader at Microsoft Canada today?

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