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Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

34% Of People REFUSE To Lead (Here's Why)

Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

Ramsey Network

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On today’s episode: 34% Of American Workers Don’t Want To Lead How Do You Know If You Are Ready To Lead? Plus A Live Coaching Call   Next Steps ☎️If you have questions about your career, passions or talents, call the show at 844-747-2577 or email ask@kencoleman.com. 📚 Order my book, From Paycheck to Purpose 📝Get Clear Career Assessment 📚Grab my book, The Proximity Principle   Offers from Today's Sponsors This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp: Get 10% off your First Month of Therapy! Listen to more from Ramsey Network  🎙️ The Ramsey Show   🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour 💡 The Rachel Cruze Show 💰 George Kamel 💸 The Ramsey Show Highlights 🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 📈 EntreLeadership   Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up, 34% of American workers don't want to lead. Why? What does that mean for our working economy and then how do you know if you're ready or able to leave? We'll break it all down. All right, welcome to the Ken Coleman Show where we help you win personally so that you can advance

0:30.0

professionally to make that income that you desire, to make that impact that you desire.

0:37.0

That's our full focus here. So let's talk about this.

0:40.0

If you got offered a promotion today and it involved being a leader of people, in other words,

0:46.3

some type of a management role, a role of authority that maybe you didn't previously have,

0:50.8

would you take it? Would you taken it.

0:52.8

Would you turn it down?

0:55.1

Now for a pretty good chunk of people,

0:57.3

the answer is yes.

0:58.5

According to Ranstad's 2024 Work Monitor report, 39% of workers don't want to be promoted.

1:07.0

Simply because they like where they're at.

1:10.0

Yeah, I, you know, that's not going, what? How could they not want more money? Well, they like where they are.

1:17.0

Now, 34% are just slightly below the 39 that say, I don't want to lead.

1:22.0

34% say they never. that say, I don't want to lead.

1:22.8

34% say they never want to be in a leadership role.

1:28.8

So what's going on?

1:31.0

So let's take that first piece of data, the people that like their jobs.

1:36.0

You know, contentment is praised.

1:38.0

Contentment is wonderful.

1:40.0

Now, make sure that you don't allow contentment to turn you into this comfortable

1:48.0

rut that you kind of create for yourself so that down the road you pass up on opportunities that could

1:56.2

actually be better for you and better your life but you kind of go you know I've gotten so

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