Nearly nine in 10 are having difficulty making the transition to supervisory roles, a training study finds.
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Unprepared to Lead: Employees aren’t the only ones frustrated by ineffective bosses. Soon-to-be-released research finds 86 percent of managers fail to be “fully engaged” in their management jobs, but rather “stuck in transition” and continuing to operate as individual contributors. That’s the key finding of a five-year study involving 2,600 U.S. managers by ConceptReserve, a training firm based in Centennial, Colorado. Most of the surveyed managers worked at Fortune 100 and other large organizations. According to John Davis, ConceptReserve’s CEO, the report points to a mounting leadership crisis in corporate America that is “more than 10 times worse than [during] the 1970s and at least four times worse than the 1990s.”
A subset of 1,200 managers was asked to identify the chief challenges of moving into management roles. They include: doing versus managing the work; managing former peers; “letting go of being an expert”; lack of time to accomplish needed tasks; and producing results versus development/coaching of employees. ConceptReserve says it plans to release the full results of its report this summer.
Workforce Management contributing editor Garry Kranz is based in Richmond, Virginia. E-mail editors@workforce.com to comment.
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