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Title: It's the Manager
Author: Jim Clifton, Jim Harter
Category: Leadership & Team Building, Decision-Making & Critical Thinking, Workplace & Company Culture
Is your manager actually the most important person in your working life? Sam and Sophie open with that question, and Gallup's data gives a blunt answer.
The episode walks through It's the Manager by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter: the 15 percent global engagement number, the difference between satisfaction and engagement, and the Q12 — twelve questions about expectations, strengths, recognition, and having a best friend at work. From there it turns to the human development economy, strengths-based management, why annual reviews are broken, and the weekly fifteen-to-thirty-minute check-in the authors call the single most important investment a manager can make.
If you lead anyone, or you've ever had a manager who just supervised, this one names what's actually missing. The takeaway: the manager isn't the problem, the manager is the solution.
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00:00Only 15 Percent Are Engaged01:00Satisfaction Is Not Engagement02:02The Q12 Questions03:19From Command To Human Development04:15Strengths, Reviews, And Weekly Check-Ins06:43Takeaway: Manager As Solution
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