INSIGHTS

This is the metric almost everyone tracks but few act on.

Most companies obsess over the front door of leadership development.

Sending managers to training programs. Investing in executive coaching. Rolling out competency frameworks and career progression frameworks.

But while you're focused on developing leaders, you're missing what's happening at the back door.

Your best people are leaving. And your newly promoted leaders are burning out.

Here's what 20+ years in corporate HR have taught me: your leadership retention rate tells you more about your leadership development effectiveness than any engagement survey ever will.

You can promote 10 high performers into management roles, but if 30% of their team members leave within the first year... you don't have just a retention problem. You have a leadership competency problem.

And if those new managers themselves are burnt out, disengaged, or asking to step back down? You've got an even bigger problem.

Leadership turnover isn't just lost producti...