The question of what people need from their leaders has many answers. However, recent Gallup research found that respondents from 52 countries were asked to list three words describing what positive leaders add to their daily life, hope emerged as the primary need, cited by 56 percent of respondents. Trust followed at a distant second with 33 percent while compassion (7 percent) and stability (4 percent) lagged far behind.
According to the research, followers are significantly more likely to say they need to see hope in those who lead organizations (64 percent) than among other leaders who might work within the same organization, e.g., managers (59 percent) and colleagues (58 percent). In other words, the more senior a leader is within an organization, the more followers look to them for hope and inspiration.
At first, the results were somewhat surprising to Jim Harter, Gallup’s chief scientist of workplace management and well-being, who thought "stability" might have led the list. However, once he started digging into the answers and the discussion points in the survey, "hope" made sense after all.
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