Leadership Skills For New Leaders
OVERVIEW According to Gallup regarding the American workforce of more than 100 million full-time employees, 1/3 of employees are engaged, 16% are actively disengaged — so miserable as to destroy what the engaged employees build. The remaining 51% of employees are just there. Also according to Gallup, an actively disengaged employee, someone who is unhappy and unproductive at work, costs their organization $3,400 for every $10,000 of salary, or 34 percent in lost productivity. What is an employer to do? Enter leadership skills . Leadership is the ability to get people excited enough to engage in and pursue a course of action. Leaders are sorely needed in organizations today. According to the Edelman Trust Barometer(ETB) almost 1 in 3 employees don’t trust their employers, and the lower down the job ranks you travel, the number grows. Trust is in a crisis level of decline and the 2018 ETB showed nowhere were those declines steeper than in the US. This data means that th...