---
title: 'Manager Effectiveness'
description: 'Helps you understand what in a manager’s work supports the team and what should be improved.'
type: template
locale: en
canonical: 'https://app.teal.band/en/templates/manager_effectiveness'
---

# Manager Effectiveness

Helps you understand what in a manager’s work supports the team and what should be improved.

## When to use

You want to develop management culture and give managers honest feedback from their teams. People often cannot tell their manager to their face that they lack support, clarity, or recognition. The survey will help highlight the strengths of each manager and areas for their development.

## Key facts

- **Categories:** 6
- **Questions:** 15
- **Respondent:** A team employee or someone who regularly works with the manager being evaluated
- **Topic:** Processes and work formats

## What it diagnoses

- **Clarity of goals:** Understanding priorities, expected results, success criteria, and how the work connects to team goals.
- **Quality of 1:1s:** How useful one-on-one meetings are as a channel for attention, support, feedback, removing obstacles, and agreeing on next steps.
- **Coaching and development:** How the manager helps the employee learn, receive meaningful feedback, find solutions, and grow in autonomy.
- **Recognition of contribution:** Visibility of the employee’s specific contribution and understanding of what exactly was valuable for the team, the client, or the outcome.
- **Fairness of decisions:** The clarity, consistency, and respectful explanation of management decisions, including unpopular trade-offs.
- **Communication and feedback:** Listening, timely context, clear channels for questions, and responsiveness to employee feedback.

## Example questions

- My manager helps me understand how my work is connected to the team’s results.
  - **Scale:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Clarification:** In which tasks do you most lack a clear understanding of how your work connects to the team’s results?
- When priorities or expectations change, my manager explains early enough and clearly enough what has changed and how I should proceed.
  - **Scale:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Clarification:** In which situations do changes in priorities or expectations most often feel sudden or unclear to you?
- My manager helps me understand what matters most right now and what a good result of my work looks like.
  - **Scale:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Clarification:** In which tasks or situations do you most lack clarity on priorities or criteria for a good result?

## What the report contains

The report details a manager’s work across six dimensions: how clearly they set goals, how useful their 1:1 meetings are, whether they coach, if they make fair decisions, how they give feedback, and whether they recognize employee contributions.

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