The Leadership Outlook: Leadership Perspectives From The Middle

In 2016, Signal49 Research released its first leadership benchmarking report—The Leadership Outlook: Leadership Driving Organizational Performance. The report focused on the primary drivers of organizational leadership and examined the role of leadership in competitive organizational performance. The Leadership Outlook: Leadership Perspectives From The Middle, is the second report in the leadership series. It focuses on the distinctive role and outlook of middle managers within Canadian organizations with respect to organizational leadership. The report explores how mid-level leaders differ from senior organizational leaders, how they are impacted by senior leaders at differing levels of leadership performance, and what organizations operating at differing levels of the leadership effectiveness spectrum are doing differently to support their middle managers. The results were attained by implementing Signal49 Research’s Leadership Performance Index—a proprietary organizational assessment tool that is based primarily on the behaviours and activities of organizational leaders.