Marketing Seminars – Do your staff trust you?

I was reading a survey the other day about how employees are loosing confidence in UK management.
According to the Chartered Institute of Management, almost 47% of the workers leave jobs due to bad management and 50% believe that they could do a better job than their current manager. Estimates say about 49% workers are ready to take a pay cut in order to work with better managers.
Ruth Spellman, CMI chief executive, said: “The figures reveal the depth of the crisis of confidence in UK management and leadership and the enormous toll bad management is taking on the UK economy and people’s wellbeing.”

To improve the management and leadership performance the CMI has launched a Manifesto for a Better Managed Britain.
A survey involving 3,000 adults conducted by OnePoll for CMI came out with interesting figures. Around 68% of the managers confessed that they would not like management roles at the start of their career. Only 28% of the managers carried a management qualification and 63% of the managers had no management training. Two in five admitted that they don’t want to be managers at all.

Spellman said: “It’s not surprising bad management is such an issue in the UK.  We invest less in our managers than our global competitors and it shows.  It’s telling that the majority of individuals never set out to manage people, and have not been trained to do so. If we’re going to stay competitive internationally, the government and employers need to address this worrying skills gap.  In what other profession would it be acceptable for only a quarter of practitioners to hold a professional qualification?  The sad truth is that UK managers are no longer regarded as professional, competent or accountable. By signing up to the Manifesto, policy makers, managers and leaders can demonstrate their commitment to raising UK plc’s game.”
The requirement for individual managers to demonstrate professionalism, and be role models has come out as a national priority. Employers are called upon to develop leaders who can work in a competitive, responsible and professional environment. More than 1,500 leaders, managers and organisations like Price Waterhouse Coopers and Interbrand have committed to CMI’s Manifesto.
I’d say that it is time that we gave more importance to training managers. This will go a long way in restoring employee confidence in management”.

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