WHAT KIND OF MANAGER ARE YOU?
Every manager has blind spots.
Take the free 10-minute Manager Archetype Self-Assessment to discover which management patterns you're most likely to fall into — and where you have the greatest opportunity to grow.
This isn't a personality test.
It's a self-awareness tool designed to help you recognize management behaviors that can get in your way — especially when you're under pressure.
WHY KNOWING YOUR MANAGER ARCHETYPE MATTERS
Knowing your manager archetype helps you see the gap between your intentions and your impact. Good leaders are willing to examine how their habits, reactions, and decisions affect their teams—even when that impact is unintentional.
FAQs
Common Questions Answered: Explore our FAQs for insights into our Manager Archetype Self-Assessment
This self-assessment will help uncover blind spots or unhelpful habits that may be affecting your leadership. Based on your responses, you’ll see the top two animal manager archetype(s) that most closely reflect your current management patterns, each connected to a real-life story in How to Not Suck as a Manager by Ashley Prisant.
The self-assessment should take about 10 minutes. Take your time reading each statement and answer as honestly as possible.
The self-assessment consists of 30 statements. Each statement connects to one of the 10 manager archetypes, and ScoreApp automatically calculates your total for each one. The maximum score for any single archetype is 15, and your results will highlight the top two archetypes that show up most strongly in your responses.
Yes. In fact, we encourage you to revisit the self-assessment regularly to see how your management patterns may have evolved. Reassessing yourself allows you to recognize growth, celebrate progress, and identify areas that still need attention.
Animal metaphors keep the focus on behavior rather than making the person feel criticized or labeled. A hamster isn’t a bad animal—it’s simply running on a wheel. A dinosaur isn’t a villain—it just couldn’t adapt. The archetypes make difficult patterns easier to recognize, discuss, and even laugh about. Eventually, you may find yourself saying, “I was such a Rhino in that meeting” — and using that recognition as a cue to reflect, adjust, and choose a more intentional response or action next time.
Absolutely. Most managers don’t fit neatly into one archetype. You may recognize patterns from two or more archetypes. That is completely normal. The goal is to not score low across the board, but to understand the patterns that show up in your management style.
Explore all 10 manager archetypes in How to Not Suck as a Manager by Ashley Prisant, available on Amazon.
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