Paradoxes of Engagement: Most Managers Are Afraid To Communicate
Even though that’s their most important job.
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2 min readMar 24, 2020
Communication may seem a natural aspect of work, but the truth is that effective communication is hard work, and is not something that comes easily for most.
Lou Solomon offers up a startling fact that shows communication is in particular not the forte for managers:
A 2016 Interact survey conducted online by Harris Poll with 2,058 U.S. adults — 1,120 of them were employed, and 616 of the employed people were managers — showed that a stunning majority (69%) of the managers said that they’re often uncomfortable communicating with employees.
Read the full post at Work Futures.
Read all the Paradoxes of Engagement series:
- Paradoxes of Engagement: Remote Isn’t | Do remote workers make their managers better?
- Paradoxes of Engagement: Workers are not Assets | They are investors.
- Paradoxes of Engagement: Most Managers Are Afraid To Communicate | Even though that’s their most important job.
- Paradoxes of Engagement: Less Communication Is More | Minimizing hours for synchronous communication makes us more productive
- Paradoxes of Engagement: First Trust, Then Trustworthiness | Managers are having a hard time trusting remote workers
