LEADERSHIP STUCK PERSON

 Here is something we have learned watching this exact situation: the person on your team is usually not stuck because they lack the skill. They are stuck because something in how they are being led is not matching how they are actually motivated.

The approach that unlocked someone else last year may simply be the wrong key for this person. You can feel the mismatch — you just have not had a way to see it clearly enough to name it.

That is the work. Not changing the person. Giving you a way to see how each person on your team is built, so you can lead them as who they actually are. 

Roughly 70% of the variance in team engagement traces back to the manager — and a high-potential person who stays disengaged is, by most estimates, one the organization is on track to lose.

Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025