Which management style are you using today? Water Freedom System ReviewWhich did you use yesterday? Not sure? OK how about trying these questions
1. Have you undertaken any people management activities today – or yesterday?
2. Have you found yourself frustrated today – or yesterday – by your staff, and have you shown that frustration by either shouting or seething?
If you said ‘no' to the first question and ‘yes' to the second my (uninvited) diagnosis is that you might be using what I call the pendulum style of management! And you might be suffering because of it (take a lie down on my couch why don't you?)
The pendulum management style: from passive to aggressive and all the way back againOver the last 20 years I've spent time with hundreds of managers – training them, coaching them and observing them. What I've noticed is that some managers use (although rarely with awareness) a style of management that swings (pendulum like) from passive to aggressive