What Kind Of (Football) Manager Are You?
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- 1.What kind of manager do you think you are/will be in the future?
- A.
One that is organised and plans effectively
- B.
One that influences people to get what you want
- C.
One that promotes creativity, you know the results will follow
- D.
One that persuades your team to follow your vision
- E.
One that sticks to methods that have previously given you success
- 2.A colleague has been criticising your management style. What do you do?
- A.
Fire them immediately, how dare they challenge the boss?
- B.
Chat to the person individually. If you don’t come to an agreement, maybe they should go?
- C.
Do nothing, and hope they’ll eventually come around to your ideas.
- D.
Criticise them to other members of the team, then wait for them to apologise.
- E.
They should know their place, and if they don’t like your style they know where the door is.
- 3.What kind of team do you want to manage?
- A.
One where I can mould them to my style – I’m in it for the long haul.
- B.
One that already buys into my ideas, full of creative individuals!
- C.
Regardless of the team, I’ll get results. I never fail.
- D.
A team of dependable members of staff, capable of following orders. It’s my job to come up with the ideas.
- E.
A team of flair, where every member feels they add something different.
- 4.The productivity of the team has decreased recently, what do you do?
- A.
Stick it out, you’re sure the results will eventually follow.
- B.
Change the people in your team, your ideas have been successful before.
- C.
If your team don’t improve, move onto a new job.
- D.
Call a staff meeting, let the team know it’s not good enough and they need to improve.
- E.
Promote younger, more enthusiastic members of staff. You know they’re keen to show what they’re made of.
- 5.What is the most important part of your team?
- A.
You - You’re the boss, without you the team fails.
- B.
Sales - Of course, they’re the ones bringing in the results.
- C.
Accounting - Without them, the rest of the team falls apart.
- D.
Marketing – They’re making sure the world knows how good you can be at your best!
- E.
HR – Priority number one is getting a positive work environment where everyone is in the right role!
- 6.You’ve just won some new business, what do you do?
- A.
Remind the team this is just the start, and analyse what could be done better.
- B.
Treat yourself, maybe have a few drinks at lunch because of how well you did.
- C.
Pin a picture of this day on the wall, so that the team always remembers how successful you were.
- D.
Play down the success, you know there’s still bigger fish to fry.
- E.
Go around and shake every member of the team’s hand, you’re one of the gang, show them how much this means to you.
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