Be Perfect
- Strengths
- Accurate detailed reports
- Neat in your appearance
- Value cleanliness and tidiness
- Weaknesses
- Feel like everything you do has to be absolutely right
- May not be satisfied with your work
- Delegation may be difficult
- Takes too long so never finish
- How to help
- Set realistic standards of performance and accuracy
- Ask yourself what the consequences really are, particularly when you find a mistake
- Tell others that their mistakes are not serious
Hurry Up
- Strengths
- Highly productive
- Weaknesses
- Take on too much work
- Often late for meetings
- Leave things until the last moment
- Rush and overlook significant areas
- How to help
- Plan your work in stages
- Set interim target dates
- Listen carefully to others until they have finished speaking
- Learn relaxation techniques
Try Hard
- Strengths
- Love new projects
- Work well under pressure
- Weaknesses
- Committed to trying rather than succeeding
- Can turn small jobs into larger jobs
- How to help
- Don’t volunteer for extra work
- Make a plan that includes finishing a task
- Only do what is expected
Be Strong
- Strengths
- Great in a crisis
- Weaknesses
- Difficult to delegate
- Don’t ask for help
- Appear to be unemotional
- Unable to admit weakness
- How to help
- Keep a task and time log to monitor your workload
- Ask others for help
- Take up an activity in your spare time that you enjoy
Please Others
- Strengths
- Great team member
- Weaknesses
- Feel guilty about saying no
- Accept extra work instead of your own priorities
- Can be seen as insincere
- Worried to get something wrong and upset people
- How to help
- Ask people questions to check out what they want instead of guessing
- Please yourself more often
- Ask other people for what you want
- Tell people firmly when they are wrong
References
Lawton, E. (2017), Managing yourself and your PhD: To achieve a better work / life balance, Think Ahead, The University of Sheffield.
Williams, KR (2007), Transactional Analysis - What Is Your Driver?, Available at http://ezinearticles.com/?Transactional-Analysis---What-Is-Your-Driver?&id=465750 (Accessed: 17/10/17).
