Most Managers are Bad Managers

Categorized: Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership Development, Mental Health & Wellness, Organizational Development, Relationships, Workplace Culture

68% of employees are not engaged. This is primarily because of their managers. Most managers are bad managers. 😏

For a wide range of reasons, most of today’s managers simply are not effective. This is causing companies significant issues around employee performance, engagement and retention.

One bad manager doesn’t cause you one problem, it causes you many problems… those that work for the bad manager are not engaged, do not perform to their potential, and either check out or leave.

How much money does each bad manager cost an organization?

According to Gallup, the most important thing effective managers should be doing with their team is having coaching conversations. Not reviewing performance, checking in on key tasks, or micromanaging… but having coaching conversations.

The reason most managers are bad managers is because they have NO CLUE how to do the MOST IMPORTANT part of their job: Showing up as a coach for each member of their team.

Here is why managers fail in this area:

  1. They have never been coached themselves
  2. They have never been taught how to coach others
  3. They were not told to coach their team
  4. They do not work inside a coaching culture

Maybe Gallup ran a faulty survey. And maybe our data that matches it is inaccurate. And perhaps much of what we have been personally told by business owners/leaders was a lie.

Or, most managers are bad managers because they can’t do the #1 thing their team is needing. Employees need to be coached in a caring and meaningful way.

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Tom Healy is passionate about helping organizations drive higher performance from their people. He believes everyone has incredible potential inside of us but it is worthless unless we discover it and use it. Through his interactive keynotes, he helps individuals and organizations reach their peak potential.