According to HR Executive’s annual survey.
Here’s what’s keeping HR professionals up at night:
36% Recruiting and retaining key talent
19% Improving company culture
16% Learning and development
14% Improving employee engagement
14% Boosting manager training
12% Managing cost/scope of benefits
11% Improving employee experience
10% People analytics
8% Negotiating HR budgets
8% Managing remote workforce
Nearly 30% of HR leaders are spending most of their time on leadership development
followed by employee experience
and engagement.
No surprise.
Managers account for 70% of the variance in employee engagement (Gallup).
Which is why improving your manager’s communication skills
can help you sleep better at night.
Most managers don’t communicate well.
They deliver data dumps in monotone.
They don’t command a room.
They clutch the conference table like a life preserver.
They fidget nervously.
They ramble.
They don’t use their voice to engage, persuade, or inspire their stakeholders.
They don’t tell effective stories.
They don’t manage the Q%A.
They don’t communicate with purpose.
So stakeholders don’t know what to think, feel, or do.
Because managers are communicating on autopilot.
Because managers are communicating the way their supervisors communicate.
Because managers were never taught how to communicate effectively.
Imagine if they listened to their stakeholders.
Imagine if they crafted
Clear
Concise
Compelling messages
And delivered them in a
Calm
Comfortable
Confident way
In presentations
Team meetings
And one-on-one meetings
In-person
Or via Zoom
How might that inspire stakeholder confidence?
How would that improve employee engagement?
How would that improve employee retention?
How would that improve company culture?
Leaders make or break the employee experience.
They need communication skills to
Engage
Persuade
And inspire
their stakeholders.