{"id":5518,"date":"2018-10-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=5518"},"modified":"2018-11-14T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:53:08","slug":"survey-48-of-people-say-communication-is-their-bosss-biggest-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/survey-48-of-people-say-communication-is-their-bosss-biggest-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: 48% of People Say Communication Is Their Boss&#8217;s Biggest Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody&#8217;s great at everything, but if there&#8217;s one skill that managers generally need to work on, it&#8217;s their communication.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-eight percent of people say communication is their direct manager&#8217;s biggest weakness, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/75-what-does-your-direct-manager-most-need-to-improve\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing query<\/a> by Comparably. More than 10,000 people responded to the query.<\/p>\n<p>The results coincide with National Boss&#8217;s Day on October 16.<\/p>\n<p><b>Communication first, accountability second<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The results place communication at the top, followed next by accountability (20% of the vote), positivity (16%), honesty (9%) and work ethic (7%).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5519 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/aaaaa.png\" alt=\"aaaaa\" width=\"982\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/aaaaa-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/aaaaa-768x205.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/aaaaa.png 982w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Men and women are aligned<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Men and women were almost identical in their ranking, with 48% of men and 45% of women putting &#8220;communication&#8221; at the top.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5520 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/fail.png\" alt=\"fail\" width=\"754\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/fail-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/fail.png 754w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Positivity becomes less important as age increases<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Communication continued to be the number one choice when segmenting the results by age, though an interesting trend emerged: people in younger age groups tended to say their bosses need to improve their positivity more so than people in older age groups.<\/p>\n<p>For example, among the generation of workers between 18 and 25 years old, 21% of respondents said their boss needs to improve their positivity. That number shrinks to 16% among workers between 31 and 35, and 13% among workers between 46 and 50.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">18 to 25<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5521 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/18to25.png\" alt=\"18to25\" width=\"476\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/18to25-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/18to25.png 476w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 85vw, 476px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">31 to 35<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5522 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/31to25.png\" alt=\"31to25\" width=\"475\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/31to25-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/31to25.png 475w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 85vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">46 to 50<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5528 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/RAISON.png\" alt=\"RAISON\" width=\"477\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/RAISON-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/RAISON.png 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 85vw, 477px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The latest results are as of Oct. 17.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody&#8217;s great at everything, but if there&#8217;s one skill that managers generally need to work on, it&#8217;s their communication. Forty-eight percent of people say communication is their direct manager&#8217;s biggest weakness, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 10,000 people responded to the query. The results coincide with National &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/survey-48-of-people-say-communication-is-their-bosss-biggest-weakness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,3],"tags":[69,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5533,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions\/5533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}