Report & Webinar Replay
It's Not a People Problem. It's a Structure Problem.
Watch the full session below. Your copy of the 2026 State of Management Report is available to download further down the page.
If you lead HR or People Development at your organization:
Have a demo with us before October 15, and we'll send you a signed copy of The Manager Method as our thank-you after we meet.
FREE REPORT
State of Management 2026
Insights and Trends Shaping the Next Chapter of Leadership
This report covers what 300+ organizations told us about how they actually support their managers, why the gap between belief and practice is wider than most people expect, and what the organizations closing it are doing differently. It's the research behind everything covered in the session above.
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT54%
of managers were promoted for being the best at the job they're leaving. Only 3% were assessed on the one they're walking into.
65%
of organizations do nothing structured after a manager attends training.
5%
of organizations are confident their managers' documentation would hold up across the board if they had to defend a termination tomorrow.
Source: 2026 State of Management Survey, Manager Method
What We Covered
The data, the gaps, and what to do about them, in under an hour.
Most organizations promote based on individual performance, not people-leadership capability. Only 3% use a formal readiness assessment before handing someone a team.
When managers aren't set up to handle hard moments, the work doesn't disappear, it lands on HR. Over half of HR teams lose half a day or more every week to situations a manager should have handled.
63% of organizations believe manager effectiveness drives more than 20% of retention. Only 7% measure it, and 59% spend less than $500 a year developing each manager.
No new headcount, no new systems. One page of expectations instead of a binder. Tools managers can reach for in two minutes. AI pointed at three specific tasks instead of handed over with no guidance.
Manager gaps rarely look like manager gaps.
They look like a strong hire who quietly checks out, a policy nobody follows past the day it was written, and an HR team explaining, again, why the same issue keeps resurfacing.
BOOK A DEMOIf you lead HR or People Development at your organization:
Have a demo with us before October 15, and we'll send you a signed copy of The Manager Method as our thank-you after we meet.