It's ALL about the manager

70% of variance in team engagement is determined solely by the manager. Gallup will say this is their most profound finding ever. If we breakdown the stats on managers...

30% naturally good (10% natural talent + 20% talent coupled with training)

50% are just there

20% are lousy

The biggest lever for change in engagement according to this research is to improve your ratio of great to lousy managers. But what do we do about the ones in our organisations we know aren't great managers, and even with training won't be great, do we roll the dice and hope for the best, or do we make the hard call and move them out of those roles?

#leadership #engagement #itsthemanager