CIPD North Regional Insights Summer Issue 2022

What’s your Management Style?

The determined manager Are you a determined manager who mobilises people to get on with the task quickly and feels stressed when nothing is being accomplished? You probably come across as decisive, straightforward, direct, and confident. But you might also forge ahead without allowing consultation and getting buy-in and you might be seen by others as impatient or demanding.

The approachable manager Are you an approachable manager who synthesises information and input from others and feels stressed if there is not enough time to get the best result? You probably come across as quiet, patient, open and unassuming. But you might omit to tell others how you are integrating their views into your decision- making, and you might be seen as indecisive or unassertive.

Management style coupled with

unmanageable workload are the two most common causes of stress at work, according to the CIPD’s annual Health and Wellbeing Survey . Managers are at the heart of people’s experience of their workplace. What they do and say has a big impact on their team’s motivation, engagement and performance. But it’s often difficult to be aware of the impact of your behaviour – what you do and say – on the people around you, especially when you are having to adapt to new ways of working and, in many-cases, manage more remote workers. The Interaction Styles framework can help you identify which of four styles you tend to fall into when communicating. People with each style have specific things to achieve when they interact, and specific attributes that can cause stress. Which of these four styles of interaction do you adopt most often? And what impact does this have on the people around you?

Top tip: Slow down and be patient with others.

Top tip: Speak up and be specific.

The engaging manager Are you an engaging manager who energises others to collaborate and feels stressed when others do not want to be involved? You probably come across as outgoing, enthusiastic, persuasive, and expressive. But you might put so much effort into generating involvement that your team loses focus on the goals, and you might be seen by others as frantic or unfocused.

Being aware of the four styles means you can rely on your strengths for the right situations and can flex it in other situations to have a more empathetic approach and achieve the positive impact and influence that you want.

Author Catherine Stohart FCIPD is a

Top tip: Calm down and listen to others.

Leadership Coach and Author of How to Get on with Anyone (2018, Pearson).

The focussed manager Are you a focused manager who navigates a path to achieve your goals and feels stressed when you do not know what is going to happen? You probably come across as deliberate, measured, calm and somewhat reserved. But you might appear unwilling to consider other options and you might be seen by others as too serious and distant.

www.linkedin.com/catherinestothart

@CatherineStoth1

www.essenwood.co.uk

Access CIPD resources to support line managers in their people management approach here .

Top tip: Relax and smile.

REGIONAL INSIGHTS

Summer 2022

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