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Moving forward,
alone?
A manager's fundamental mission is to Shouldn't companies be concerned with
plan, organise, direct and control all aspects keeping their employees updated since
of the organisation. In larger organisations, ever? Or is it strategic to feed “dead weight”
these functions are “detailed” by functional within the organisation, paying the
areas and assigned to area managers, respective financial cost?
whether specialised or not. So far, so good.
What today appears to be a strategy to
What was not OK during 2022 was the solve the problem could very well have been
emergence of phenomena such as “The a strategy to avoid it, even because it has
Great Resignation”, “The Great Reshuffle”, long been said that it costs more to attract
“Quiet Quitting”, and the newly created “Shift
Shock”. and hire a new employee than to retain a
current one.
In 2022, we witnessed a significant
amount of twists and uncertainties According to Skillsoft's recently released
regarding the global labour market. Here, the Lean Into Learning report, the cost of hiring
role of managers would have been can be as high as 50% to 200% of an annual
significant if implemented before these salary. And it is these costs, as well as
phenomena emerged. It is in this direction employee interest, that have motivated
that the role of the manager should move. organisations to emphasise learning,
Besides planning, organising, directing and reskilling and development to drive
controlling, they should also be competent workforce transformation.
in foreseeing and anticipating problems Also, according to the same report, time
related to today's most important resource - spent on learning has increased by 32% year
people. on year towards upskilling leadership,
Because today “employees” do not see business and social skills (soft skills, power
work in the same way as they did just a few skills or human skills).
years ago, managers must proactively The manager can move forward with his
anticipate the future to stay up-to-date, organisation, but if he doesn't upgrade his
relevant and competitive. After all, everyone people, he risks moving forward alone. And
wants to grow! this is in nobody's interest!
On the one hand, employees want more
enriching and rewarding careers; on the Horácio Lopes
other, organisations want competent people Gestor de projetos . Consultor de
to deliver results. And here, training and Gestão . Editor newDATAmagazine ®
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