As IT technologies continue to develop, managers today can often do without any deeper soft skills, such as empathy and the ability to deal with people. Nowadays, therefore, managers in certain fields are often specialists who work more as analysts and just report to management what is going on in their team. But with the current shortage of people affecting and changing the workforce, and teams becoming more and more heterogeneous, it will be increasingly important that managers should be perfectly capable of working with people and bringing them together. Here is some advice on how to choose team managers for your company.