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TEST: Separating work and home

TEST: Separating work and home

Sometimes it can be hard to separate your work and home life. Can you switch off at the end of a hard day, or do you overburden colleagues with issues from home? Take our test to discover what your predisposition is and how to overcome any issues.

1. You arrive one morning to work very worried about a family matter. In the face of curiosity from your colleagues you
Tell them that you’re OK, that you’re just a bit worried about a few things, and then get to work
Tell them all about it and ask for their advice
Look grave but wait until someone asks you directly what the problem is before offloading your problems
Avoid them and get lost in your work, even if you are a little bit late starting
2. Your team at work is in crisis mode. The management have suggested a meeting so that everyone can air their views.
Use the occasion to try to motivate others, encouraging each person to express their opinion
When your turn comes, you get straight to the heart of the problem, although you listen to what others have to say so that you can best understand what has happened
Let others speak. When it comes to your turn you sum up your vision of how things should be done in three or four concise sentences
Take the opportunity to get a few things off your chest
3. In your opinion, emotions at work ought to be:
Shared
Hidden
Controlled
Channelled into something useful
4. A friend confesses to you that she has fallen for her boss who recently made a pass at her. How do you react? You:
Are wondering if there’ll be a promotion in it for her
Think it’s a delicate situation
Are glad it’s never happened to you
Want to know all the details
5. How does it make you feel when a colleague tells you something which is personal to them?
You don’t mind, but as long as it’s only once in a while
You see it as a mark of trust in you
You enjoy sharing
It’s never happened
6. You come across one of your colleagues crying in the corridor. You:
Comfort them and ask them if they want to tell you what it’s all about
Give them a hug, comfort them and give them some friendly advice
Ask them what the matter is
Walk by discreetly so that you don’t have to get involved
7. Two colleagues start arguing right in front of you. You:
Stare at them, distracted from your work
Try to calm things down by acting as a mediator
Wade in and make your opinion known
Ask them politely to settle their differences out of work, and further away from you
8. A new person at work means a new:
Name to try to remember
Person to integrate into the group
Dynamic to the group
Friend to make
9. At work you would take offence if someone:
Accused you of slacking
Asked you to relax a bit
Asked you to keep a look out for the boss while they were gossiping
Accused you of sucking up to the boss
10. How often do you go to the pub with colleagues:
Sometimes
Often
If necessary
Never
11. How do you think your colleagues perceive you? As:
The joker
The mentor
Someone who is always eager to find new things out
The agony aunt/uncle
12. What would you find most difficult to deal with:
A poorly equipped office
An open-plan office
Home working
Having to work alone

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