What Type of Manager Are You? Ask TemplateMonster

You are a task-driven and focused on achieving goals boss. However, you are constantly putting out fires and leading by chaos. Your behavioral paradox is that often you create the problems and situations but it seems to you that you work hard to avoid them. Unfortunately providing "solutions" continually often results in the lackluster performance that you are working so diligently to eliminate.
TemplateMonster advises you to analyze your style of administration thoroughly, admit that sometimes you are the root of the problem, and make the necessary tweaks.

You are the type of a manager who administers by a pitchfork. You are doing so with a heavy and often controlling hand: demanding progress, forcing accountability, prodding and pushing for results through the use of threats and fear tactics. This style of tough, ruthless management hurts people's feelings. They are put in a position where they are pushed to avoid consequences rather than pulled toward the desired goal.
TemplateMonster believes that soft fire makes sweet malt. You need to be a little bit more democratic. Friendly encouragement works better than constant pressure.

You don’t follow any particular type of management strategy and will readily admit this. Instead, you shoot from the hip, making it up as you go along, often generating sporadic, inconsistent results. As a result, you often find yourself in situations that you are unprepared for. Nevertheless, you thrive on situations like these. Being an adrenaline junkie, you are in desperate need of developing the second most essential proficiency of a coach: masterful listening. You are the type of manager who can talk to anyone and immediately make people feel comfortable. This strong point of character becomes a crutch to your leadership style, often blinding you to the need to further systemize your approach. As a matter of fact, the only thing consistent about you is your inconsistency.
TemplateMonster recommends you to pull yourself together at last and work out a uniform system of requirements. The first good results of your new ordered approach will come soon and make your team more efficient.

You focus more on yourself than anything else. Your personal production, recognition, sales quotas, and bonuses take precedence over people and the value you are responsible for building within each person on your team. You often put your personal needs and objectives above the needs of your team. Managers like you experience more attrition, turnover, and problems relating to managing a team than any other type of manager. They are typically assertive and confident individuals. However, they are typically driven by their ego to look good and outperform the rest of the team. Beware, you breed unhealthy competition rather than an environment of collaboration.
TemplateMonster's advice: don't forget that you and your subordinates are in the same boat heading to a certain destination. The fact that you are the manager doesn't make you a blue blood.

You possess some wonderful qualities. You are open to change, innovation, and personal growth with the underlying commitment to continually improve and evolve as sales managers, almost to a fault. This wonderful trait often becomes your weakness. In your search for the latest and greatest approach, you never get to experience the benefit of consistency. You are like a talking spec sheet. Your emphasis on acquiring more facts, figures, features, and benefits overshadows the ability to recognize the critical need for soft skills training around the areas of presenting, listening, questioning, prospecting, and the importance of following an organized, strategic selling system. You rely on your vast amount of product knowledge and experience when managing and developing your salespeople. Because of this great imbalance, you often fall short on developing your interpersonal skills that would make you more human than machine.
TemplateMonster's advice: remember that you are a man, not a computer. People make mistakes, but it's not a catastrophe, it's just another lesson that you need to learn and move on.

Passive Managers are also referred to as Parenting Managers or Pleasing Managers.
You take the concept of developing close relationships with your team and coworkers to a new level. You have one ultimate goal: to make people happy. While this is certainly an admirable trait, it can quickly become a barrier to leadership efforts if not managed effectively. Although you are wholesome and charming, people may view you as incompetent, inconsistent, and clueless. You often lack the respect from your employees in order to effectively build a championship team. One can spot that you are a Passive Manager by looking at your team and the number of people who should have been fired long ago. Because all you want to do is please, you are more timid and passive in your approach. You will do anything to avoid confrontation and mistake holding people accountable with confrontation and conflict.
TemplateMonster's advice: you MUST learn to say NO when needed.

You encompass all of the good qualities that the other types of managers possess, yet without all of their pitfalls. You are an ideal manager, yet still should be mindful of some characteristics and develop yourself. You possess the persistence, edge, and genuine authenticity of the Pitchfork Manager; Confidence of the Presumptuous Manager; Enthusiasm, passion, charm, and presence of the Pontificating Manager; Drive to support others and spearhead solutions like the Problem-Solving Manager; Desire to serve, respectfulness, sensitivity, nurturing ability, and humanity of the Passive Manager; Product and industry knowledge, sales acumen, efficiency, focus, organization, and passion for continued growth just like the Perfect Manager.
You are the ultimate manager and coach, and a testimonial to the additional skills and coaching competencies that every manager needs to develop in order to build a world-class team.
TemplateMonster greets you! You are the inborn manager who will lead the team to success.