Manager Superheroes: Mission Impossible?

Today's managers are expected to be superheroes – leading hybrid teams, looking after employee well-being, and driving good performance, whilst also juggling traditional responsibilities like managing communication, change management and recruitment.

Employees feel it too.  Seventy-seven percent crave strong manager support, even as managerial workloads have doubled compared to individual contributors. It's no surprise managers are buckling and turning over under this pressure.

Gartner research shows manager effectiveness is the key to your success. Employees reporting to effective managers are 15.4x more likely to be high performers, 13% more engaged and over 3 times more likely to stay!

So how do you upskill, get or keep those magical unicorn managers? Well the data is there – it’s not that your managers are not skilled enough, the problem is the job itself. Job “Manageability” is key.  Designing the role of manager to be a job that itself is focused, executable and sustainable, or as I think about it, a role with manageable workload, and clear expectations.