What Today’s Managers Are Really Struggling With in 2025
Insights from the 2025 Workplace Pulse Survey By Bruce Tulgan In October 2025, we asked leaders, managers, and individual contributors to share the biggest…
The biggest takeaway from our research is this: The vast majority of managers do not provide feedback often enough. For the most part, micromanagement…
There are volumes of research that have attempted to distinguish between leaders, managers, and supervisors: Leaders focus on the big picture, managers focus on…
Is Your Workplace Feedback Thoughtful, Balanced, and True?
Every time a manager provides feedback, their credibility is on the line. Giving feedback that is generally inaccurate—off-base, unfair, unbalanced, or factually wrong—is a…
The Seven Types of Management Challenges and How to Solve Them
Despite how unique your management challenges may seem, the common denominator is likely unstructured, low-substance, hit-or-miss communication. When things are going wrong in a…
Our research shows that when things are going wrong in a management relationship, almost always, the common denominator is unstructured, low substance, hit-or-miss communication.…
