Better leadership | 5 traits your employees WISH you had

It’s a hard time to be a manager at the moment; the world of work is changing faster than perhaps ever before, whilst employees are in need of stronger and more stable leadership. However, statistics recently released by the predictive Index found that there is currently a stark divide between the skills that managers have, and the skills that employees wished that they had.

For example, nearly 30% of employees believe their manager lacks team-building skills. 17.9% of employees said their manager lacks feedback skills. 10.65% of employees said their manager lacks delegation skills. 14.6% of employees said their manager lacks time management skills.

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Traits | Leaders display a 'compassion gap'

Whilst 60% of employees rated their manager as ‘good’, 19.4% believed their leader to be only average and 20.7% noted that they believed their manager to be either ‘not-so-great’ or ‘terrible’.

And actions speak louder than words; 24% believe that their manager would undermine them to look better to leaders, 33.5% believe that their manager plays favourites within the team and 11% believe that their manager has no respect for them.