Business and Money Tips

Latest from Gallup: Only about 30% of US employees are engaged in their jobs.  Such employees have managers who encourage their development and focus on their strengths. The remaining 70% of employees are either not engaged at work (50% of all employees) or actively disengaged (20%). Worldwide, only 13% of employees are engaged. Who engages employees? People with the talent to manage teams. Gallup scientists have found that managers account for 70% of variance in employee engagement scores across business units.  The problem is, every day, thousands of employees are named “manager” or “supervisor” who have little to no capacity to perform that task. Gallup has uncovered that companies fail to choose the candidate with the right person talent for the job of manager 82% of the time. Those companies are wasting time and resources attempting to train bad managers to be who they’re not. There’s a reason for this: Authentic management talent is very rare. It takes Moneyball—rigorous