Working Style & Pace
How you work, make progress, and manage your energy
These four dimensions represent how you naturally prefer to plan, organise, focus, and adapt during everyday work.
How to read it
Higher scores show stronger preferences. Lower scores show areas that require less energy or feel more optional. The cyan area represents your scores, while the pink dashed line at 50 marks the balanced baseline.
Understanding your working style helps you structure your day in ways that reduce stress and increase effectiveness.
Pace
How quickly you move through tasks and make decisions
- Higher scores: Fast-paced, urgent, quick to act
- Lower scores: Steady, measured, deliberate approach
Planning
Your preference for structure and advance preparation
- Higher scores: Detailed planning, structured approach
- Lower scores: Flexible, responsive, adaptive planning
Focus
How you maintain concentration and manage distractions
- Higher scores: Deep focus, sustained attention
- Lower scores: Broad awareness, varied interests
Adaptability
How readily you adjust to change and new situations
- Higher scores: Embrace change, flexible, experimental
- Lower scores: Prefer consistency, careful with change
Based on your working style scores, this section identifies the specific behaviours and approaches that help you work efficiently (Time Savers) and those that may slow you down or create friction (Time Wasters).
Time Savers
These are the working patterns that naturally support your productivity and help you make progress with less friction. They represent where your style works in your favour.
Time Wasters
These are the unintended ways your natural style might create delays, rework, or inefficiency. Being aware of these helps you anticipate where you might need to adjust.
Read through both columns honestly. Notice which time savers you're already leveraging and which time wasters might be showing up in your work. Use this awareness to structure your day and tasks in ways that work with your natural style rather than against it.
Time Savers & Time Wasters
Where your working style helps you — and where it might slow you down
Time Savers
- You balance speed with thoughtfulness and maintain reliable momentum.
- You adjust your pace well depending on the task.
- You use enough structure to stay organised without slowing down.
- You flex between planning and improvising naturally.
- You can concentrate when needed and shift gears smoothly.
- Balanced focus helps you pace work effectively.
- You adapt when needed while relying on stable structure.
- Balanced flexibility keeps work flowing.
Time Wasters
- You may shift pace unpredictably during urgent or complex work.
- You can lose time toggling between fast and slow modes.
- You may switch between methods inconsistently.
- You can lose time recalibrating when priorities shift.
- You may drift between shallow and deep work.
- You sometimes lose time transitioning between tasks.
- Major shifts may take time to adjust to.
- You may hesitate before changing direction.