Why leadership capacity is the real root of sinking engagement

Summary: The engagement issue can’t be fixed with another survey or campaign or another wellbeing push. What needs to be addressed is the widening gap between what organisations ask leaders to hold and the capacity they have developed to hold it. The instinct for HR is to call sinking engagement a culture problem and reach for the familiar responses: another survey, a refreshed values campaign, a wellbeing push. This isn’t wrong, but it doesn&r