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What are your strengths and weaknesses as a manager?
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Take this short quiz to identify your strengths as a manager, as well as to spot areas for improvement.
We’ll be asking you 17 questions, covering three different areas: managing your team’s work, managing people, and managing yourself.
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You answered questions covering three areas: how you manage your team’s work, how you manage people, and how you manage yourself.
In the questions about managing your team’s work, we looked at how you “get things done,” whether it’s delegating a specific task, setting broader goals, or managing your organizational culture.
In the questions about managing people, we examined what practices you use to ensure that you have the right people in place – how you hire people, develop them, hold on to the best, and let go of those who fall short.
And in the section on managing yourself, we probed how you manage your time, stay organized, and use authority to get things done.
Here’s how you did:
Managing Your Team’s Work
Your answers indicate you’re doing a great job in this area! It sounds like you’re getting your staff on the same page about goals and plans to achieve them, delegating well, and ensuring results match what you’re looking for. Great job!You might be facing challenges in managing your team’s work. From your answers here, it sounds like you might be having trouble getting your staff on the same page about goals and plans to achieve them, delegating well, and ensuring that results match what you’re looking for. (Of course, it might also be a matter of not having the right people, so see your results in the next section as well.)If you want to read more about these areas, here’s a list of helpful resources.
Managing People
Your answers to questions about how you manage your employees indicate you’re doing a great job of people management! This includes hiring well, providing regular feedback, and addressing performance issues head-on and constructively. You’re awesome in this area!Your answers to questions about how you manage employees indicate that you might be facing challenges in this area. From your answers here, it sounds like you might focus on learning to make great hires, providing feedback effectively, and addressing performance problems head-on and constructively.If you want to read more about these areas, here’s a list of helpful resources.
Managing Yourself
It sounds like you’re doing a good job on some of the basics of managing yourself – using your time effectively, exercising authority well, and how you see your role as a manager. This stuff can be really tricky, so great job!It sounds like you might find it challenging to manage yourself – meaning using your time effectively, exercising authority well, and how you see your role as a manager. Believe us, you’re not alone – this is a really tricky area and a huge number of managers struggle with it.If you want to read more about these areas, here’s a list of helpful resources.
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Question 1 of 17
1. Question
When I’m on vacation:
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Question 2 of 17
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My team:
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Question 3 of 17
3. Question
If I asked my staff right now what their two to three most important goals are for the year:
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Question 4 of 17
4. Question
When I delegate responsibilities, work usually comes back to me:
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Question 5 of 17
5. Question
True or False: I often end up doing work myself because it’s the only way I can be sure it will get done correctly.
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Question 6 of 17
6. Question
True or False: My staff members are often distracted by things that I feel don’t matter.
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Question 7 of 17
7. Question
When it comes to setting goals with my team:
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Question 8 of 17
8. Question
True or false: I sometimes find myself reluctant to assign work to the person who theoretically should handle it, because I know he/she won’t do it well.
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Question 9 of 17
9. Question
I provide feedback to my staff:
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Question 10 of 17
10. Question
Thinking about people I’ve hired in the past:
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Question 11 of 17
11. Question
When a staff member isn’t performing well, I’m most likely to:
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Question 12 of 17
12. Question
Firing people every now and then is:
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Question 13 of 17
13. Question
When it comes down to it, my most important job as a manager is to:
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Question 14 of 17
14. Question
When an important decision needs to be made:
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Question 15 of 17
15. Question
True or false: Yelling is sometimes necessary to motivate an employee to perform.
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Question 16 of 17
16. Question
An employee is chronically late, leaving others covering for her. I am most likely to:
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Question 17 of 17
17. Question
When I have a lot on my plate, I: