Gobala's Workplace Insights

Work Habits

Highly achievement-oriented by nature, you will likely benefit from taking on particularly challenging tasks to further optimize your effectiveness in a role. Taking on these challenges may also further refine your strengths and enable you to apply them for even greater impact.

Your exacting, precise, and organized approach to work will be beneficial in many tasks, but you do run the risk of being perceived as inflexible at times. Allowing for some flexibility and uncertainty in your projects, plans and approaches may be beneficial. It's possible that you may be so focused on the details, or on having everything perfect, that you lose sight of the bigger picture. Your style also runs the risk of being perceived as micromanaging people or processes, so allowing others additional flexibility and freedom from time to time may also be beneficial.

Your strong inner motivation and drive are likely to see you do well in a variety of tasks, even in tasks that you do not find intrinsically enjoyable. This strong inner drive can be best utilized in high impact activities where your motivation should see you achieving strong outcomes.

Temperament

While there is a time and a place for healthy competition, there is also a risk that being highly competitive may have a negative impact on developing good relationships with others. It may be beneficial for you to consider using your energy and enthusiasm for success to help others in their attainment of goals. This may help you foster valuable working relationships. You may also benefit from understanding that it's OK to lose and to fail - doing so can encourage growth, build resilience, and help shape future goals.

Given your highly tolerant and patient nature, you are likely to feel uncomfortable being rushed or pressured by others into taking immediate action. Your prioritization of stable and calm relationships can mean you are unlikely to tell others when they have disappointed you. Understanding that your time, effort, and opinions are valuable may help increase your comfort with voicing your opinions when others don't meet your expectations.

Interaction Style

It may be beneficial to consider when your direct approach may be useful and when it may be less so. While there is value in being assertive and leading the way, being too assertive can prevent others from sharing their opinions. Taking the time to consider the views and perspectives of others will not only help build relationships but often lead to better decision-making through collaboration.

As a highly extroverted person, you may need to be careful that you do not dominate meetings and other social events by talking too much. You may sometimes be prone to capturing the attention of a group when it would be better to give others a chance to shine. It may take effort for you to let others share the focus and attention of a group, but making this effort can help build relationships with others. You may also find it hard to maintain your energy while working on solitary tasks. You may need to manage the time you spend interacting with others in order to ensure that solitary tasks can be completed.

Attitudes & Outlook

Being creative and intellectually curious is a great asset in many fields. But there are times you must also realize that there is no need to use a complex solution when a simple one will do. Making sure that your solutions can be delivered on by others is also important. Being able to come up with straightforward and practical solutions can be valuable, as in addition to resolving the challenge at hand, simple solutions are more easily replicated by others.

You may find that you come across to others as overconfident. There may be times when your trust in your own abilities means that you do not take the time to adequately plan and prepare in advance. Your level of self-assurance may also mean that you fail to take into account the feedback and advice of others. You may need to remind yourself to attend to input and ideas from those around you.