Friday, October 05, 2007

How to Properly Tailor Your Management Style


As a manager, your job is to intuit the needs of your employees and give them the right combination of attention, feedback and praise to keep them motivated. But the diverse range of personalities populating today's work force sometimes makes it difficult to determine how to do that.

Don't worry. Being a manager may be getting more complicated these days, but eliciting good results from your team doesn't require an advanced degree in psychology. In their book "6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses," executive coaches Stephen E. Kohn and Vincent D. O'Connell lay out best management practices for the four most common types of people you'll find at the office:

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