Why Great Employees Struggle as Managers: The Leadership Skills Nobody Taught Them | Dr. Valerie Tackling

Podcast: The Thought Atlas Podcast · Blessed Osagie Igberase (Blisado)

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

Being excellent at your job doesn’t automatically make you an effective leader. In this episode of Thought Atlas, Dr. Valerie Tackling joins us to explore why talented employees can struggle when they become managers, why organizations often fail to prepare people for leadership, and how workplace relationships influence the way teams function. Drawing on more than 25 years of leadership experience and her doctoral research into workplace social capital, Dr. Tackling explains why trust, collaboration, and belonging are more than optional extras. She describes social capital as a kind of currency that people build through ev...