Reimagine Your Managerial Pipeline

“Too many managers are experiencing buyer’s remorse,” says Brent Cassell, a vice president in Gartner’s HR group and one of the study’s authors. He and his team surveyed more than 9,000 employees and managers in a variety of industries around the world and surveyed and interviewed almost 100 HR leaders. Nearly two of every three employees said they would like to become a people manager now or in the future—but one in five actual managers said that given a choice, they would rather not have that position. And only 19% of HR leaders believe that their organization’s selection process yields the right people for the role. Addressing these disconnects requires a radically different approach to filling the managerial pipeline, Cassell and his colleagues say.