What is actually making your work harder?
You can be good at your job and still spend an extraordinary amount of energy working around the job.
- Chasing decisions.
- Deciding which priority will lose.
- Picking up work nobody owns.
- Stretching to make the workload work.
- Knowing when a point won't land.
After a while, those workarounds become so normal that it can be hard to tell which one is actually causing the problem. That's what this diagnostic is designed to help you find.
In about five minutes, it will identify what your answers most strongly suggest is getting in the way, show you how you may be compensating for it, and give you a practical way to test what would actually make the situation better.
This isn't a personality test, and it isn't an assessment of your resilience or attitude. It's about what is happening between you, the work and the system around you.
19 questions · about 5 minutes · one question per screen.
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