Your Management Style
A self-assessment of personal management style
Name
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First Name
Last Name
Title
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Enter your job title
Department
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Enter your department
Email
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When an important task needs to be done right away, you...
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a. Assign the task to the person you feel is best suited to handle it.
b. Do it yourself; it may not be done right otherwise.
c. Seek out the opinion of your staff on how to do it and who should do it.
d. Assign it to the person best able to handle it at the moment.
e. Make your staff aware of the issue, then wait for a volunteer.
Which statement best describes your feelings on how important it is that your staff likes you?
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a. It's not important at all; you're the boss.
b. Good working relationships are nice, but the work has to be done either way.
c. Results come first, but good relationships with my team are a close second.
d. To get good results, you need to have a good relationship with your team.
e. It's important that your team members like you as a person; not just as a boss.
Your team's success primarily depends on...
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a. How well they perform their assigned tasks.
b. You - as their manager.
c. How well they are able to work together to reach common goals.
d. Personal working relationships.
e. The quality of employees you have on your team.
How comfortable are you taking management risks?
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a. Very comfortable.
b. Somewhat comfortable.
c. Neither comfortable nor uncomfortable.
d. Somewhat uncomfortable.
e. Very uncomfortable.
Which one of these statements best describes your approach to management?
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a. Getting results is what matters.
b. Getting good results without destroying relationships is most important.
c. Happy team members are good team members.
d. Everything will work out as long as everyone does their job.
e. It's not worth getting stressed out about small things.
If a team member calls to say he/she can't make it to your weekly meeting because their car won't start, you are most likely to say...
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a. That's fine, but you'll need to stay late and make up the time.
b. Get one of your colleagues to cover for you until you get here.
c. Just get here as soon as you can.
d. What can I do to help?
e. No worries.
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Adapted from "The Manager's Minute" Nov 2011, www.nationalsiminadrstraining.com
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