Helping the accidental manager: Trends for work
Eat Sleep Work Repeat
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The role of managers are pivotal in our working lives but most managers aren't trained or prepared for the responsibilities that they are given.
When we look at the research from Gallup about burnout and why people hate their jobs managers are regarded as having the biggest responsibility. Half of people who say they don't rate their manager say they are looking for jobs. So what can we do to make our relationship with our managers better? I chatted to Anthony Painter from CMI.
Chartered Management Institute research on the Accidental Manager
- 82% of workers entering management positions have not had any formal management and leadership training
- only a quarter of workers (27%) describe their manager as ‘highly effective’
- of those workers who do not rate their manager, half (50%) plan to leave their company in the next year
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| 0:28.0 | £1,500. This is it, Sleep Workerpeat. It's a podcast about workplace, culture, psychology and life. |
| 0:43.5 | A lot of podcasts have stopped doing the intro, haven't they? They just boom, drop you in there because they sort of know that you've worked out who they are. |
| 0:51.8 | Anyway, but not that here. I want to thank you for the downloads that I had. |
| 0:57.2 | I had a huge amount of downloads, mainly from, I guess, newsletter subscribers in the first instance, |
| 1:03.7 | but forwarding it on to other people. So there were tens of thousands of downloads of the deck |
| 1:08.8 | that I did, which was work in 2024, |
| 1:12.2 | an aggregation of a lot of the research that passes my desk and a lot of the research that |
| 1:16.8 | I spend my time delving into and reading about. |
| 1:20.6 | And you can download that deck for free. |
| 1:22.6 | It's in the show notes. |
| 1:23.7 | Just the top team themes in it. |
| 1:26.0 | The themes were that work isn't a happy place for most, don't turn back the clock on flex, a celebration of coordinated office time, trust is the basis of good culture and managers, managers, managers. |
| 1:41.0 | They were the five themes. |
| 1:43.1 | And it leads us into today's discussion, |
| 1:45.2 | actually. Today's discussion is a conversation with Anthony Painter from the CMI. |
| 1:51.2 | Anthony is the director of policy and external affairs at the CMI. And I saw a piece of work that |
| 1:59.0 | they'd put out about the accidental manager in November last year. It was a piece of work that they'd put out about the accidental manager in November last year. |
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