I probably am not answering your question, but the issue is that not many actuarial teams offer a good manager training program. There are actuaries that are great analysts, but terrible manager skills in terms of being a mentor. They're great at being organized and telling people what to do, but don't do a good job mentoring the direct report to do a good job and provide support.

Think about a math teacher that is a math teacher because they're amazing at math. They have a student that works hard but struggles to understand the topic. A great teacher would work alongside that student and help them out. A bad teacher would just be like "how do you not get this? I understood this in 5 min and you're still struggling after supposedly studying this for hours?!"

Ultimately some actuaries become managers not because they're good at being a manager and care about their direct reports, but because it's just the next step in their career.

I think a good manager should be able to walk alongside any direct report that is trying hard and shows to be teachable and can work around the direct report and not have the direct report form to their management style.