While your employees have a responsibility for their own engagement, you, their direct manger, play the biggest role when it comes to employee engagement. “Gallup estimates that the manager accounts for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement scores across business units.”1  You are a guide.   Before you get too big-headed, remember, you are “just” a guide. Of course, I use “just” sarcastically as “in simply; only; no more than.”2 A guide is “a person who advises or shows the way to others”3 and “direct[s] or ha[s] an influence on the course of action of (someone or [...]