Leadership Predicament: Promotion by Anointment

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Increasing Workplace Stress is Hazardous to Health - By Joyce Gioia

A recently released study from CareerBuilder confirms what we have been saying for years---that most companies are not training their people before moving them into leadership. In fact, in this CareerBuilder study, 58 percent of managers said they had “not received any management training”, when they began managing others.

Given these numbers, it is not surprising that 41 percent of workers did not rate their direct supervisors as doing a “good or great job”. While only 20 percent described their direct supervisor's performance as “poor or very poor”, workers expressed a number of troubling concerns:

· “[played] favorites” (23 percent)

· “[didn't] follow through on what he/she promised” (21 percent)

· “[didn't] listen to concerns” (21 percent)

· “[didn't] provide regular feedback” (20 percent)

· “[didn't] keep me motivated” (17 percent)

· “[didn't] help me develop” (17 percent)

· “Only [provided] negative feedback” (14 percent).

Workers rated the performance of their corporate leaders more severely. Only 50 percent felt their leadership teams were doing a “good or great job”. Simultaneously, 23 percent described their performance as “poor or very poor”. While the problems cited with corporate leaders included insufficient communication, unrealistic workloads, and a lack of training and employee development, significant numbers of workers had concerns that are more serious:

· 40 percent said top leaders didn't “make an effort to listen to employees or address employee morale”

· 33 percent said there was “not enough transparency, [didn't] communicate openly and honestly”

· 30 percent said “major changes [were] made without warning”

· 27 percent said “workloads and productivity demands [were] unreasonable” (we are surprised this number was not higher)

· 21 percent said “[didn’t] motivate me”

· 20 percent said that corporate leaders “stopped investing in the development of employees”.

Though this study was United States-centric, based on our research, we believe a similar study conducted with workers in other countries would have yielded similar results.

We expect to see more corporate leaders making the critical investment in management training programs to develop their current and future leaders. Those that do not will suffer the consequences both today and tomorrow.

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Ms. Gioia is a workforce futurist concentrating on relationship aspects of the future. This arena includes workforce and workplace trends, as well as consumer, education, and business-to-business trends. She is also CEO of Employer of Choice, Inc, a distinction earned only by companies whose leadership, culture, and best practices attract, optimize, and hold top talent. Employers of ChoiceÂ® enjoy "a higher level of performance, greater workforce stability, and the level of continuity that assures preservation of the knowledge base, customer loyalty, employee satisfaction, and stronger profits". (www.EmployerOfChoice.com). Gioia has also co-authored five books which are focused on what employers must do to attract, optimize, and hold onto their best employees.
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