Introducing "Food for Thought" #101. The formula is simple: three short messages 2x a month to feed your mind.
Communication
Only 20% of employees are actively engaged
According to the latest Gallup report (State of the Global Workplace 2026), global employee engagement continues to decline for the second year running, reaching its lowest level since 2020.
Leadership
What if the real issue wasn't commitment... but leadership?
Gallup has been demonstrating this for years: the manager is the #1 lever of engagement. According to the report, 70% of a team's engagement is attributable to the manager. Another finding is that teams with engaged managers are themselves more engaged.
The challenge, however, is that managers devote an average of only 13% of their time to developing the people on their team (according to Deloitte's Human Capital Trends 2025 report). How, in this context, can we give more time to people... and less time to putting out fires?
Conversation
12 questions to engage your employees
These 12 questions developed by Gallup can be used to measure the level of engagement within a team. What if you used them not only to measure, but above all to address the fundamental needs of your employees through your conversations with them.
