NIKUNJ's Workplace Insights

You should strive to balance doing great work with getting it done in a timely manner. Perfectionism and other pitfalls inherent to highly diligent people can reduce your effectiveness. Don't get so focused on the details that you lose sight of the bigger picture. It's important for you to always keep an eye on the greater strategy, and to ensure your efforts are aligned with achieving it.

You are congenial by nature and have a tendency to defer to others at times. Listening to others' opinions is important, but there are times where you will need to assert yourself, even if it doesn't come naturally, in order to achieve the best outcomes.

Effective performance is often a combination of getting things done and interacting well with others. There are times when remaining focused on getting work done is the best approach and times when spending more time engaging with others is beneficial. It may benefit you to take a moment to consider the right balance for a particular job and where you may need to rebalance.

Knowing when to take a creative approach is important to accomplishing goals. However, there are also times when using tried and true methods are best for getting things done. The balance is in understanding the situation at hand, quickly learning the relevant history of what has already been attempted, and capitalizing on the more effective strategy.

While patience can be a virtue, so is knowing when to change course. Sometimes we all stick with an activity or a solution that no longer adds value or where success is unlikely. While tenacity and perseverance are important, it can be equally important to know when to change direction and use a different approach. Your time and effort are valuable, and efforts should be expended where they add the greatest value.