If your boss is Blue
Strengths
  1. People skills
  2. People-oriented style of management
  3. Will encourage employees to reach their potential
  4. Act as coaches and mentors toward their workers
  5. Because of warmth and enthusiasm people will cooperate with them
  6. They strive to create a climate of positive communications and team work
Weaknesses
  1. Will go to any lengths to avoid disharmony and conflict
  2. Difficulty terminating undesireable workers
  3. Difficulty dealing with any job related conflict
If you supervise a Blue
Dos
  1. Tell them your personal feelings about any topic
  2. Listen attentively and look at them while talking to them
  3. Tell them what you appreciate about them
  4. Physically touch them (appropriately)
  5. Accept their individuality and uniqueness
  6. Allow them to express their feelings
  7. Be honest and sincere
Don'ts
  1. Be abrupt or cut them off while they are talking
  2. Discount their dreams
  3. Expect them to be confrontational
  4. Compare them to someone else
  5. Deny their emotions or criticize their sensitivity
  6. Ignore them
  7. Take advantage of their kindness
Created: June 1999
Revised: April 17, 2003
Nancy L. Spoolman