With the right amount of coaching, your managers will become strong, highly-engaged leaders.

Managers need to be engaged in a process of spelling out expectations.

The costs of undermanagement can be huge.

Highly-engaged management has the potential to improve your bottom line.

Leaders in organizations of every shape and size can probably list several ways their businesses could improve: Employees do their jobs the wrong way. There is too much firefighting and not enough work getting done. Low performers are hiding in plain sight. High performers are thinking about leaving. Resources are wasted.

There will never be a solution that fixes every problem at once. But of course, it makes sense to know where the organization should invest its time and money to have the greatest impact.

A good place to start? With the leaders, managers, and supervisors at every level of the company. Think about it: Who are the people with the most influence over the day-to-day performance of every part of the company? Managers are responsible for so many things in today’s workplace, and yet too many of them are not sufficiently trained in the basics of management.

With the right amount of coaching, your managers will become the type of strong, highly-engaged leaders who benefit your bottom line in eight ways.

1. Small fires are prevented before they become huge problems for everyone

The foundation of highly-engaged management is structured communication. Basically, that means that managers are meeting regularly with their direct reports, one-on-one, to talk........

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