I thrive where challenge, novelty, and passion meet.
I learn visually and by doing things myself. Engagement is key for me – if my brain isn’t bought in, it can’t focus on the task.
Guide me with clarity of purpose, insight, novelty and challenge and I’ll deliver energy, creativity, and continuous improvement.
🧩 How I Work Best
- Interest-driven: I engage deeply when work is interesting to me, novel, and I have a passion for it.
- Good with Urgency: I’m great in a crisis or if something needs to be done fast. If this is the case, I need SMART requirements.
- Challenge: If I’m told something can’t be done, I will find a way to do it.
- Dedicated Days: A week with meeting days and focus days works better for me than bits of both every day.
- With Autonomy: I need to be able to decide what I work on when.
💪 Strengths I Bring
- Creative problem-solving, fresh perspectives and out-of-the-box thinking.
- High adaptability when things change
- Developing the future vision and seeing things holistically.
- Strong ability to spin lots of plates at once.
- Great with people, understanding need, adapting my working style to accommodate others.
⚠️ Things I Need to Guard Against
- Taking on too much: I love to do more but need to be careful not to do so much it causes stress or more work than my working hours can cover.
- Waiting Mode: schedule meetings all together to ensure I don’t have small gaps of time before the next meeting.
- Chasing shiny new things before finishing existing work.
- Blurring the lines of my boundaries: Saying ‘just this once’ to weekend working or using my development time to work on other things is never really ‘just this once’ with me.
🛠️ My Self-Management Strategies
- Offer myself a reward for completing dull tasks.
- A self-built planner that captures my to-do list in a new way each week and adds little dopamine boosts throughout the day.
- A desk set up at home which is visually stimulating, quiet music in the background and multiple items to handle/fidget with when needed.
- Work on multiple projects at once – if my brain can’t focus on one, I can do another. My brain is satisfied with not doing the first task, meanwhile the second gets completed so there is no drop in productivity.
- Being kind to myself. If something out of my control meant I couldn’t complete a task, I don’t internalise that.
🤝 How You Can Get the Best from Me
- Give me context: Tell me what the process is now, what isn’t working and why.
- Give me space to innovate: Specific requirements are great, but if you can allow me freedom within or around these, it means I can get really invested.
- Consider when we meet: I work best when all my meetings are together and I have large amounts of work time. If you’re organising a meeting, put it around my other meetings in a free gap, and not in my blocked out working time.
- Understand my need for movement: If I’m fidgeting and/or looking all over the place in a meeting, it’s allowing me to concentrate and be really involved in our discussion; be assured I’m not distracted.