Coach your Managers to excellence - Check out The Predictive Index's Manager Survey.

While all executives fully understand the importance of having rock solid business strategies, where we often fall short is having equally solid talent strategies.  The first step to creating and sustaining a talent strategy? Excellent managers.

To help get to the heart of what makes a good manager,The Predictive Index conducted a first-of-its-kind people survey this summer. After surveying more than 5,000 people across every industry, we were able to collect a treasure trove of insights about the traits of great (and not-so-great) managers.

We’ve also enlisted a panel of experts to help contextualize and offer color commentary on the data collected. These experts include best-selling author, @Criag Weber, co-founder of American Confidence Institute, @Alyssa Dver, management coach and author @Victor Lipman, PI’s VP of Science, @Greg Barnett, and employee engagement expert, @Jill Christensen.

For most businesses, employees are the biggest line item in the budget. They’re also companies’ biggest differentiators. A company’s people—and those people’s commitment to the organization—determine whether it will flourish or fail. You probably understand this correlation intuitively, and you also understand that few things have a bigger impact on employees’ engagement, productivity, and overall happiness at work than their direct managers. The results from our survey certainly corroborate these sentiments. For example:

- 94% of those who rate their managers 9 or 10 on a 10-point scale say they feel passion and energy for their jobs.

- Women and men match up evenly as managers. Men tend to rank male bosses slightly higher as managers and women tend to rank female bosses slightly higher as managers.

- Managers who are 24 to 41 years old are often maligned for their management skills, yet our survey found that they receive virtually the same ratings from the people they manage as do Generation X and Baby Boomer bosses.

- 99% of great managers are both liked and respected.

So if you’re looking for ways to engage your employees and retain top talent, we invite you to dig a little deeper into these findings.  

This survey report will help you understand employees’ perspectives on the managerial traits they value most. And that level of understanding helps make the workplace a little better for everyone. As we say here at The Predictive Index, “better work, better world.”

Do our survey findings match up with what you see in your workplace or what you have witnessed in your own career? In your experience, what separates a good manager from a great one? I'd love to hear from you--let's keep the conversation going. For a closer look at The Predictive Index 2018 People Management Survey, click here.