Section
Talent & Retention
Why managers and high potentials leave, what it costs, and which interventions have evidence behind them.
- Talent & Retention
What makes the first management job so hard?
Development has its strongest measured effect on behaviour at the junior end, and that is the level where budgets are thinnest and the role has changed most.
- Talent & Retention
Why is manager engagement falling faster than everyone else's?
Gallup put manager engagement at 22 percent in 2025, down five points in a year and nine since 2022. Overall engagement moved one point over the same year.
- Talent & Retention
Do people really leave managers, not companies?
The figure behind the slogan measures variance in engagement between business units, not why anyone resigned. It is restated four times on the way to the slide.
