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Middle managers need help.
Just one in three middle managers believe they have the “clarity, organizational support, and resources to succeed and to coach employees effectively on skills and career development,” according to a Betterworks survey of 2,105 leaders in the US and UK.
This may be because many middle managers don’t know how to have regular conversations with employees about their performance, Jamie Aitken, VP of HR transformation at Betterworks, told HR Brew, something that being “sandwiched” between the organization’s demands and employees’ expectations has only exacerbated.
“In HR, we give these middle managers the role, and the responsibility, of being really