A - Administrators. These are people who want to get it right. Task oriented, not big on relationships, not very social and don't express their feelings. Very analytical, cautious and risk averse. They work at a slower more methodical pace and are less assertive and less expressive.

Each style has it's own behavioural patterns. Some styles don't get along, others are more suited to each other.

Interestingly population is evenly spread, in other words 25% are one of four styles and more significantly 75% are of a style different to yours.

As an employer it is important that you know your style and that of your employees. Each style thinks differently, reacts differently, communicates differently, works at a different pace, handles emotions differently, manages stress differently and solves problems differently. Not necessarily worse, not better just differently. As an employer your style is most likely going to be different than your employees so you need to know who your staff are and how to communicate with them."

The Final Word Managing stress at work can be kept at a healthy level if you understand what behaviourial type you are and those around you.

Using a simple tool such as MyProfile for yourself and your people will be of great benefit. Stress is caused by many factors and often it's because wrong people have been put into jobs that they are totally unsuitable for.

Managing stress in any business can be greatly reduced if only people would do what they were supposed to. Isn't that right? Unfortunately many people who do hiring do not have skills or experience to choose most suitable candidates. By utilising this tool, it could mean difference between managing stress or accelerating it.

It's really important to consider all these factors when hiring people. So why not make your life easier, save time and money and utilise MyProfile. You'll discover in less than 10 minutes behaviourial style of a candidate or employee. MyProfile tells you if person is suited to job, if their working style match that required to do job. What would normally take months of relationship building and in many instances, a lot of heartache, can be predicted using this tool. For a miniscule investment of $33 can you not afford it?

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Secondly, people’s traits and capabilities are not only derived from their genes, but how these genes are nourished. You never put your staff in a position where their current capability does not match demands placed on them. You establish systems for good recruitment, good training, simple workable procedures, and top class supervision. You tell your staff what is expected of them. This stops your staff, making mistakes, becoming frustrated and so avoiding rage.

Thirdly, businesses today are encouraged by some management gurus to be highly innovative and risk taking. They tackle bigger projects and adopt fast quick fix solutions. All this creates a tension within organisation and is a possible pre-cursor to office-rage. You on other-hand, also want to be innovative and risk taking, but you minimise this source of tension, by using your cunning to follow evolutionary principle of taking many small cumulative steps, building on success, one small step at a time, rather than taking few large ambitious steps. You also learn from small mistakes and make appropriate small corrective actions.

Lastly, as a Smiling Manager you make most of your genes by involving everyone openly in your business to address current problems and future directions. This again helps pre-empt tensions and so minimise possibility of office rage.