Your Team Loves Mondays...Right?

A Gallup study found that 50% of 7,200 associates who quit their jobs left because of their managers.

Yet most managers think they perform their jobs competently. Managers should consider three reasons why they need to evaluate their effectiveness continually:

1. Businesses see ineffective managers as stumbling blocks.
2. People gossip about poor managers.
3. Weak managers get in their own way even as their associates quit and their teams’ morale plummets.

Most people don’t distinguish between managers and leaders. However, both perform essential functions in different roles. Generally speaking, leaders conceptualize a broad strategic vision and managers implement it. All managers have shortcomings and, thus, can always upgrade their skills. As a coach working to help fledgling managers improve, author Kristin A. Sherry found that she spent most of her time assisting young managers in coping with their inadequate bosses. She found that faulty senior managers shared common negative behaviors:

• A tendency to micromanage.
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