This morning I attended a seminar hosted by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Eastern Region where they presented the finding of their latest study on the management challenges facing managers in 2020 and beyond. The report entitled Management 2020 is the result of a major piece of research recently published about the state of management and management skills in the UK and identified the following areas as being priorities for the future which we discussed in groups:
- Poor management and low productivity – lack of competence and confidence in dealing with under performance
- Managing inter-generational workforces – managers need to understand and be able to deal with the very different needs and expectations of a workforce that employs people from 17-70
- Lack of management training – management is still seen as something that anyone can “pick up” rather than a set of acquired skills
- Low employee engagement – particular concern around younger people who come into the workforce with different expectations about the purpose of work and work-life balance
Further to this work, the CMI distilled the essence of good practice in management under three headings:
- Purpose – clarity and accountability
- People – preparing managers and leaders at all levels
- Potential – developing people to meet organisational needs of the future.
This led to a Benchmarking Toolkit being developed which any business can access in order to benchmark management in your own business against the results from the research. You can follow the conversation about this on Twitter using #management2020
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