I like it when someone else does my homework. Always have.

Of course, when I was in school, I could never get anyone to go for it.

That's what Gallup did when they released their State of the American Manager Report.

Don't get me wrong, I've done plenty of my own homework, but it's nice when someone else's homework backs up what you already know from real-world experience.

I'm a manager's coach. I've managed people for more than two decades and know how to lead people and how to engage a team. But knowing isn't doing, and it's not always easy to apply my experience and anecdotal information in with the same compulsion that data can.

So when I marry my experience in leading hundreds of people over many years across many different geographic locations and in different industries, with solid science my coaching has real impact for change.

The Gallup report is based on over four decades of extensive talent research, a study of 2.5 million manager-led teams in 195 countries and analysis from measuring the engagement of 27 million employees. It examines the crucial link among talent, engagement and vital business outcomes such as profitability and productivity.

One of the outcomes of the research is that when it comes to hiring managers, companies make the wrong choice 82% of the time! Said in another way, 82% of the managers in place right now are the wrong person for the job.

There are a lot of other fun facts like that in the report but among the most compelling outcomes of the study is that great managers have the following combination of talents:

1. They motivate every single employee to take action and engage employees with a compelling mission and vision.

2. They create a culture of clear accountability.

3. They make decisions based on productivity, not politics.

4. They have the assertiveness to drive outcomes and the ability to overcome adversity and resistance.

5. They build relationships that create trust, open dialogue and full transparency.

The study also found that only about 10% of people have the rare combination of talents it takes to be a manager, but that about 20% more can learn what they need, to be successful.

The good news, most organizations probably have the right people with the right talent. The bad news is, those people probably aren't the current managers. At least not all of them.

I'm a coach.

During a large part of my career I worked in a large corporation and they told me, "We don't know what you're doing, but we never see employee engagement results like yours."

I've also spent a year in retail trying to further prove that what I know and what I can teach managers is relevant to every industry. In that role, I've taken a poorly performing department and turned it into one of the top performing departments.

I know what it takes to be a good manager. If you're struggling, I can fix that.

If you don't like being a manager because you resonate with the 70-80% of managers who didn't really ever want the job in the first place, I can fix that too.

Whether you want to be a a manager, or you want to get out of it and go back to doing what you did best, I can help you get there.

Cited: The State of the American Manager, Gallup 2015