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Manager Effectiveness Score Calculator

Score a manager — yours or your own management — on the ten behaviours that large-scale internal research keeps finding actually predict team outcomes.

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Manager Effectiveness Score Calculator

20Manager effectiveness score

Good in the task dimension or the people dimension, weak in the other. Both are learnable. You scored 20/40 (50% of the maximum), with 10 of 10 items in the upper half. The single highest item was "Coaches rather than just directing" — that is usually the most useful thing to bring up first, because specific examples get better help than a general "I've been off lately."

How it's calculated: 20 out of 40 — developing range on this scale. Adjust the inputs below to recalculate for your own numbers.

Disclaimer: For reflection and self-awareness, not clinical assessment. Scores are based on published, widely used research frameworks but this tool is not a validated instrument and results should be treated as a conversation starter, not a verdict.

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0 = never · 1 = rarely · 2 = sometimes · 3 = often · 4 = almost always

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0 = never · 1 = rarely · 2 = sometimes · 3 = often · 4 = almost always

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0 = never · 1 = rarely · 2 = sometimes · 3 = often · 4 = almost always

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0 = never · 1 = rarely · 2 = sometimes · 3 = often · 4 = almost always

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0 = never · 1 = rarely · 2 = sometimes · 3 = often · 4 = almost always

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0 = never · 1 = rarely · 2 = sometimes · 3 = often · 4 = almost always

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0 = never · 1 = rarely · 2 = sometimes · 3 = often · 4 = almost always

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0 = never · 1 = rarely · 2 = sometimes · 3 = often · 4 = almost always

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0 = never · 1 = rarely · 2 = sometimes · 3 = often · 4 = almost always

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0 = never · 1 = rarely · 2 = sometimes · 3 = often · 4 = almost always

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How the score is calculated

Ten behaviours scored 0–4 and summed to 0–40. The behaviour list follows the widely published findings from large internal people-analytics studies of what distinguishes highly rated managers: coaching, not micromanaging, caring about wellbeing and career, being results-oriented, communicating both directions, clear vision, technical credibility, decisiveness, and cross-team collaboration.

Total = sum of 10 items (0–4 each) → 0–40 → severity band
Items
10
Per-item range
0–4
Time to complete
About 2 minutes
Score range
0–40
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Coaching outranks technical skill

The most reproduced finding in this literature is counter-intuitive to newly promoted experts: technical ability matters, but it is consistently the lowest-weighted behaviour on the list. Coaching, empowerment and career interest sit at the top. Promoting the best individual contributor and expecting the rest to follow is the single most expensive management mistake organisations make.

Use it for self-assessment, then check it

Managers' self-scores run high. The useful version is to score yourself, then have the team score you anonymously, and look only at the gaps — the items where you are more than one point off are your actual development plan.

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FAQ

Can I send this to my team anonymously?

Yes — nothing is stored or transmitted; scoring happens in your browser. Have people screenshot or note their totals however you normally collect anonymous feedback.

My manager scores low. Now what?

Separate 'bad manager' from 'wrong manager for me'. The first shows in everyone's scores; the second shows only in yours, and an internal move fixes it.

Is this Project Oxygen?

It is modelled on the same publicly reported behaviour list. It is not an official instrument from any company.

How this calculator is built

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Written by Sam Doshi and the RevenueLab editorial team. We don't sell the data feeds this tool is built on.

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