Leadership skills gap 'highest priority' - FSSC

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Addressing the poor managerial and leadership skills gap needs to be the financial industry's highest priority, according to new research.

The Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC) report The Skills Bill: An agenda for the industry, also found financial services employers are looking for higher skilled entry-level staff and smaller businesses need to get more involved in training and skills development. The analysis says: “The impact of managerial skills gaps and poor leadership is enormous and addressing them ought to be the industry’s highest priority”. FSSC chief executive Teresa Sayers says the report examines the sector’s most important failures and offers solutions to the problems. “It gives us the opportunity to ...

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