Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Radical Canter Podcast. I'm Kim Scott, the co-founder of Radical

Candor and Just Work. I'm Jason Roseoff, CEO and co-founder of Radical Cander.

And I'm Amy Sandler, your host for the Radical Candor podcast. So you've likely heard about

the great resignation. And perhaps you're even one of the millions of people who have bid their

jobs farewell over the past few months. So what is driving this mass exodus of mid-level workers

from companies far and wide? Well, in our research we've discovered, you guessed it, bad bosses, as well as a lack of

transparency and a lack of a clear career trajectory, overall poor communication, these are

the things causing people to resign at record rates.

In fact, according to the predictive index, the number one skill that employees are

feeling their manager is lacking is effective communication, which I thought was interesting.

It jumped up or maybe down from number five is the fifth most important skill, or the fifth

skill people are lacking to actually the top skill number one this year. So on today's

episode, let's talk about a few radical candor strategies that can help. Kim, hearing this data,

thinking about it, what is the first thing companies and managers can do to increase

engagement and retain talent? Make sure that they don't have shitty bosses. People join your

company and they leave their boss. So in all seriousness, job number one is that you've got to treat

everyone who works for you as a human being. This means actually talking to people about everything from their career goals

to how they like to work. Only when you get to know your direct reports well enough to know why they

care about their work and what they hope to get out of their careers and also where they are

at the present moment in time. Only when you really understand these

things about the people who work for you, can you put the right people in the right roles

and assign the right projects to the right people. Yeah, it can seem sort of tripe, but it's

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