How do you cope when employees, customers, and other stakeholders are more demanding than ever before? It's impossible to solve every problem, but you can partner with others - even outside your industry - to solve complex challenges and meet rising demands. Use cross-industry collaboration to unlock innovative solutions, share resources, and strengthen your organisation.

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How are you coping – and planning to cope – with our fast-changing world in 2025?

You don’t need a futurist to tell you our world is changing faster than ever before, and we’re going to face a lot more change, uncertainty, and disruption in the future.

We’re all experiencing this every day. But as a leader, how are you managing and navigating your team through that?

Leaders have a dual responsibility now. On one hand, you have to navigate this change and lead your team through it. And on the other hand, you must keep an eye on the future so you can take advantage of the opportunities that change brings.

The problem is people expect more.

• Customers are more demanding.
• Our employees are more demanding.
• Other stakeholders are more demanding.

It’s not enough to simply try to pedal faster and faster to keep up. It’s tempting to try, but you will burn out. And even if you don’t, it’s impossible to keep up.

So, what can you do instead?

Instead of trying to solve all your problems internally, partner and collaborate with other organisations. It doesn’t even need to involve people within your industry. You just need people who can help you solve problems you’re not equipped to solve.

This idea is called cross-industry collaboration, and it’s rapidly gaining steam.

I’m sure you have seen examples of it aready – for example:

• Woolworths partners with OzHarvest to provide surplus food to charities so that they don’t waste it.
• Telstra and the Royal Flying Doctor Service are collaborating to increase the number of telehealth services for people in regional areas.
• The National Australia Bank (NAB) is partnering with Good Shepherd Microfinance to provide small micro-loans to customers who NAB isn’t equipped to serve.

This idea of cross-industry collaboration is one of ten key trends I’ve identified for leaders in 2025. I’m running an online presentation soon about these trends.

I won’t cover them all, but instead will focus on three key trends: one about customers, one about employees, and the other focused on you as a leader.

This presentation is free and open to everybody. So please register and feel free to invite others in your team, especially leaders.

Register for the virtual masterclass:

https://swiy.co/go-cross-industry-collaboration

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