When you create an organization chart in Visio, you can choose what types of shapes to add based on individuals’ roles. For example, the ‘Manager’ shape can represent individuals at the management level or the ‘Contractors’ shape can represent individual working for the organization on a contract basis.

Once an organization chart is created, you can change the position type of a shape. Consider an example where a contractor is hired on to fill a management level role. Instead of adding a new shape, you can easily change the ‘Contractor’ shape to a ‘Manager’ shape.

To change the position type of a shape in Visio 2003:

1. Right-click the shape, and then click Change Position Type.
2. Select a new position type.
3. Click OK.