10 Hot Leadership Topics for 2018

What are the most critical emerging trends for leaders to reckon with in 2018, and how will they shake up the workplace? According to top HR and leadership influencers, this will be a year that challenges leaders to increase the adoption--and impact--of new technologies that are developing at an increasingly fast rate. Each year for the past three years we have analyzed social data from top influencers (listed at the end of this post) to reveal the big topics emerging in leadership as the new year begins. This year's influencer trend data not only reveals the hottest topics now--pictured in yellow in the word cloud below--but also the topics that continue to rise (and rise) and those which are fizzling out based on performance over the past three years. Several of these hot topics are inextricably linked and will have a huge impact on how HR creates new employee experiences--including the application of AI-driven technologies to automate and personalize onboarding, feedback, and coaching.