How motivated are you? - 3SmartCubes.com

1. You are not making much progress with a difficult job that has been assigned to you and consequently causing you much frustration. Your response would be:

To pause and reassess how you can complete the job efficiently
Hide your frustration and soldier on
Crib about it to everyone and rush through the job

2. A task which used to be fun has now turned boring as you have done it very often. You are given that task again. You would:

Do it to your best ability and then ask not to be given that task again
Leave it for later and in the meantime focus on more interesting tasks
Do the task in auto-pilot mode

3. You finished a particularly difficult task before the given deadline. You would now:

Celebrate your achievement and take it easy for a while
Try and set stiffer deadlines for yourself
Work to maintain the standard you have set for yourself

4. At the office you have worked out an alternate plan for tackling a project which would save time and money. Others disagree with you. You would:

Consider the criticism, accordingly change your plan and then implement it
Drop your plan and go with the general consensus
Put faith in yourself and implement your plan

5. Midway through a huge project, you feel it is necessary to determine if your progress has been satisfactory. You would choose to:

Continue with the project since you have never really failed in the past
Do a self-assessment and modify your plans if needed
Do a self-assessment, discuss it with an experienced colleague and then modify your plan if needed

6. You are conducting a murder investigation and are analyzing pieces of evidence that you have collected from the crime scene. You realize that some evidence is missing. Your reaction would be:

To assume that the missing evidence is unimportant and work with what you have
Go back to the scene and try to look for that evidence
Piece together the missing evidence based on what else you know about the crime and proceed with your analysis

7. For a new project you have been assigned a partner whom you detest. You would:

Work with your partner but keep your interactions with him to a minimum
Ignore your partner and try and do the project alone
Put your emotions aside and try to build a healthy working relationship with him

8. Your friends call you to join them at the ball game which means leaving an important task at work unfinished for the day. Your response would be to:

Appreciate their calling you, but explaining why you can't come
Simply saying "no"
Say that you would join them later if possible, but knowing that you would not be going