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by Angilie Kapoor
Manage Employee Personalities: Tips for First-Time and Struggling Managers
Managing the various personalities of one’s staff can be one of the biggest challenges that a first-time or struggling manager can face. As a healthcare administration/management graduate, I expected that I would have been equipped with the necessary skills to manage my staff and handle their various personalities. However, I almost immediately learned that this was not the case, and I quickly found that juggling and managing personalities can be overwhelming, frustrating, and even daunting. Through my own trials and errors, I learned some lessons that helped me manage my staff better and also made it easier for me to juggle their different personalities. In this blog post, I’ll be sharing some of these lessons, hoping that first-time and struggling managers can learn from my experience. The first lesson that I learned is that it’s not such a great idea to go on a quest to read gazillions of books to learn about the various personality types that have ever existed – ever. Instead, I highly recommend starting with learning your own personality type. You see, I ultimately learned much later than I wanted to, that by understanding your own personality better, you can open doors for youself to learn about your staff and their personalities. This is how you can ultimately learn how to manage your personality and as well as theirs better. There are various online personality tests that you can take to help you learn more about your personality type and how to manage it better such as Myers-Briggs, Personality Perfect or 16 Personalities.![Book, Leader Mindset Activation.How to Manage Employee Personalities: Tips for First-Time and Struggling Managers | Angilie Kapoor Oversight global](https://oversightglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CD-Images-2023-09-02T143444.885-300x251.png)
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How to Manage Employee Personalities: Tips for First-Time and Struggling Managers
September 24, 2023