What’s Your Management Style?

If you are a manager or thinking about moving into management then the sooner you figure out your natural management style the better.

Managing other people is particularly challenging and complex. What works with one individual may be the worst thing to do with another.

With so many management gurus and books telling you how to manage, it’s no wonder we lose sight of what our natural management style actually is. And yet, if you are to become a successful manager, then you will probably have to be yourself instead of trying to manage the way someone else manages.

This is a bit controversial. There are certainly a lot of learned skills involved in management, however, this doesn’t mean you have to try and behave like someone else.

As with most things, being yourself is essential. It is the starting point and the place you build from. So while you can add knowledge and experience, you should do that on a solid bedrock of being yourself.

When you try and imitate someone else's management style, you are likely to run into some major problems. It’s difficult to maintain any integrity when you are not being yourself. People pick on subtle stuff like that quite intuitively. The one thing that all staff need from their manager is integrity. They need it to be able to trust them.

This is why PeopleMaps has developed a brand new report called Your Management Style.

Although there are many that claim only certain personality types can be successful managers, PeopleMaps has found successful managers across the personality spectrum. No personality type has a monopoly on being a good manager.

The key to being a good manager is to understand your own natural management style and work with it, not against it. Be yourself. It is still possible to learn management skills without compromising who you are.

Understanding self is half the battle. Included in this personality report are many personality gauges, each one measuring a specific behaviour. For example, one of your gauges is “Patient at explaining what is required from a subordinate “ If for instance, you score low for this, then you know you have to make more of an effort and dig deeper than some, to find patience. Your personality report is not deterministic; if anything it is liberating. When you know stuff you can figure out solutions. 

You can read more about “Your Management Style” here.