To gain a deeper understanding of the reality of leadership and ist impact on performance, it is important to understand how managers view themselves. So let’s take a look into a Gallup Engagement Index to learn more about their self-perception.

It was found that
🔹only one out of five employees are motivated to achieve outstanding #work results due to the #leadership style they experienced
🔹18 % of employees were already thinking about leaving the company
🔹69% had confirmed that they had at least worked with one bad line manager

👆Yet, 97% of managers considered themselves good leaders and saw no shortcomings in their leadership skills whatsoever.

This is supported by research provided in „How unaware are the unskilled?“ Published in the Journal of Economic Psychology. It explains that unskilled perceive themselves to be equally skilled as those with good skills mostly because they lack self-awareness.

Some more insights into the abilities of line managers are offered by psychologist Jürgen Hesse. He recently explained that
👉 only one-third are good leaders,
👉another third needs improvement in interaction with people,
👉and one-third needs to be replaced immediately due to non-existent leadership skills and other issues (e. g. being neurotic, psychopathic, narcissistic, or egomaniacal).

❗️A psychological study by Kienbaum of 500 managers found that the more neurotic a manager is, the less successful is the company. Seems like there is a lot of work to do, in order to improve performance and keep the people motivated and on board. I am so curious, about how many companies actively work on cleaning up their leadership mess.

I would like to finish with a quote from the Harvard Business Review, that says it all:
„𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝘁𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗲 — 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗻𝗼 𝗳𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀.“