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4 Key Insights About Managers That Can Help Lift Your Team

Source | business.linkedin.com | Samantha McLaren

In every department, managers are the bridge between individual employees and the organization’s overarching goals. But over the past year, those bridges have had to bear more weight than usual. 

For managers leading recruiting teams, 2020 forced sudden, radical changes in the hiring process, which combined with major shifts in demand — be it sharp hiring spikes or uncertainty-driven pauses. At the same time, managers had to support their teams’ emotional well-being at a time of heightened stress, anxiety, and, in many cases, personal tragedy. 

It’s been an immensely difficult 12 months. Now, as companies look toward recovery, recruiting and business leaders may be considering what they can do to better support their recruiting managers, so they can ensure their teams thrive.

The State of the Manager 2021 report can help. Bringing together insights from 3.4 million employee engagement surveys conducted through Glint, along with LinkedIn behavioral and survey data and interviews with experts, the report explores the critical role managers play and what companies can do to foster their success. 

To help you empower your recruiting managers, here are a few key insights from the report.

1. Manager burnout is on the rise — increasing 78% during 2020

Following a year of unprecedented challenges, many managers are experiencing or are at risk of burnout. In fact, between Q1 and Q4 of 2020, manager burnout increased 78%.

The biggest factor influencing this is the amount of work on managers’ plates, with 40% reporting that their workload is overwhelming. And the new way of working is also having an impact: 37% say they feel disconnected from colleagues, and 34% have faced conflicts between work and home demands. With the boundaries between managers’ professional and personal lives disappearing, unhealthy work habits are becoming more common. Between February and August 2020, the number of Microsoft Teams chat messages sent outside of working hours rose 69%, with twice as many users as previously sending after-hours messages. 

On top of all this, 30% of managers say their job responsibilities are unclear — a stressor that may have been caused by the many changes that 2020 fueled, some of which organizations are still grappling with.

Precursors to manager burnout Percentage of managers who self-reported experiencing a precursor to burnout.  Overwhelming workload: 40% Feeling disconnected from colleagues: 37% Conflict between home and work demands: 34% Unclear job responsibilities: 30% Little or no acknowledgment of good work: 25% Little or no support from manager/peers: 21% Little or no autonomy to make decisions: 17%  *From the State of the Manager Report

The good news is that many managers are taking steps to combat burnout. The number who watched the LinkedIn Learning course Managing Stress for Positive Change grew seven times from 2019 to 2020. 

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