Hey HN,

At Hypercontext (S21 / https://hypercontext.com) we build an app that helps managers run better meetings by making sure those meetings have an agenda, notes, and goals that tie back to their OKRs.

But really we want to help managers become great. So we asked over 500 people exclusively working within tech everything we could to see what we could find.

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Here's what we found:

1. Unproductive employees are 2.8X more likely to not know their goals.

2. People who know their goals are over 3X more likely to work at a company that’s in hyper-growth.

3. Discussing your goals weekly increases confidence in hitting them by 2.7x.

4. The 1:1 is the most valuable meeting type (doesn't matter if eng, sales, cs, or exec)

5. Managers who run 1:1s have 1.5x better retention on their team.

6. Paying below market increases turnover by 1.3x. Paying above didn't seem to decrease turnover.

7. According to their team, the #1 improvement needed for their manager is in a clear vision/strategy

8. Meanwhile, managers self-report their largest challenge is "not micromanaging"

9. Gen Z and and Women of color are least comfortable speaking in meetings

10. People who are not comfortable in meetings are 3x more likely to have applied for another job in the past 6m

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Full report here, ungated: https://hypercontext.com/state-of-high-performing-teams-in-tech