Advice Monster Habit - Box of Crayons®

1. When someone shares a problem with you, what’s your go-to response?(Required)

I’m usually pretty quick to come up with some helpful ideas or suggestions.

I usually feel compelled to help solve the problem.

I usually consider how to minimize risk and guide towards the safest outcome.

2. Your colleague is seeking your help in making a decision. What might you typically do?(Required)

I’m comfortable to offer my ideas and suggestions – supported by evidence (e.g. personal experience, data or research).

I love to ‘save the day’ by swooping in to do the work myself.

My advice would centre around helping them choose the safest decision, ensuring positive results.

3. Your colleague is about to make a decision with potentially undesirable consequences. How do you handle it?(Required)

I’d be inclined to share the information I have to support why this is a less than desirable decision.

I’d want to protect my colleague by rushing in to fix it by doing something with less disastrous consequences.

I’d take control by using the information that I have to steer the outcome in a safer direction.

4. Your colleague is dealing with a challenge at work that you have experienced many times. What do you do?(Required)

That’s easy. I’d share my advice based on what I’ve come to know.

Knowing me, I’d offer to jump in and help solve the problem – given that I’ve experienced it before.

I’d do my best to steer my colleague away from disaster and towards a positive outcome using my past experiences to navigate.

5. If I’m being honest, it can feel like to be most impactful at work I need to:(Required)

Know the answer.

Be responsible for it all.

Keep things under control.

6. Which one sounds most like you?(Required)

“I experienced a similar situation a few years back and I might do X. I mean, there’s some pretty solid research to back that up, too.”

“Are you having a hard time with that? Let me help you out. I’ve done it before, so I know how it’s done. Don’t you worry about it.”

“That sounds like a good idea, but have you considered that X might happen if we do it that way? Best if we just stick to what we know.”

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