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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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We’ve talked about knowing whether or not being a manager is right for you and manager burnout, but what if no one wants to be a manager at all? Kim, Jason, and Amy discuss the challenges and motivations for becoming a manager. They explore the survey results that show a lack of interest in people management, the reasons behind it, the role of middle managers, and the emotional labor involved in being a manager.Radical Candor Podcast Checklist Define the role. Teach people what the job of management is and provide the training and resources to help them succeed. Create a buddy or mentorship program so people interested in people management can experience some of the positive aspects of building relationships, guiding teams to achieve results and helping people take steps in the direction of their dreams. If you want to explore the manager dilemma further, listen to S5, Ep.25: Should I be a manager? And S6. Ep.2: Managers are Burned Out, Too. Get all the resources and show notes at RadicalCandor.com/podcastChapters[00:00] Introduction[00:38] Survey Results and TikTok Videos[06:04] Motivations for Becoming a Manager[10:11] The Role of Middle Managers[12:21] The Challenges of Middle Managers[21:19] Redefining the Role of Managers[25:26] The Importance of Defining the Role[28:06] The Value of Player Coaches[29:41] Motivations for Becoming a Manager[36:42] Inspiring Moments in Management[43:14] The Radical Candor ChecklistFollow UsInstagramTikTokLinkedInYouTubeFacebookX Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. Welcome to the Radical Canter Podcast. I'm Kim Scott. I'm Jason Rosoff.
0:09.1	I'm Amy Sandler. In the past, we've talked about how to know whether or not being a manager is right for you.
0:15.5	And we've also talked a lot about manager burnout. Today we're exploring the question, what if nobody wants to be a
0:23.3	manager at all? Vizier, a leader in people analytics, surveyed a thousand individual contributors
0:29.0	about whether they wanted to become people managers. Almost two-thirds, 64% said, thanks,
0:35.5	but no thanks. There was a TikTok video from a user named Kia Abdul,
0:41.8	and I hope I got that name right, with over 2 million views. And in that TikTok, they were
0:48.1	equating management with an unpaid internship due to all the responsibilities that managers
0:53.9	aren't compensated for.
0:56.1	There was another TikTok where another user said that she stopped being a manager in tech
1:00.4	because there was no work-life balance.
1:03.7	She had zero decision-making power and felt that companies didn't care about their people
1:08.9	as much as they did about the bottom line.
1:12.4	So that is what we're going to be talking about today.
1:16.2	Just a little bit more data, this busier survey.
1:19.5	They found that employee ambition was primarily outside the workplace, the top three priorities.
1:27.2	And just think about it for yourself.
1:28.7	Does this resonate?
1:29.5	The top three priorities, spending time with family and friends.
1:33.3	Two-thirds of folks put that as their top three priority, being physically or mentally
1:38.7	healthy, 64 percent, and traveling 58 percent.
1:49.5	Kim, Jason, any guess on where people manager came in on, on those numbers?
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