Definitions
This is the ability to assess and start opportunities independently.
What is initiative?
Someone showing initiative will do this before others do.
What is take charge of situations?
Initiative benefits this part of your life AND your career.
What are personal and professional life?
This happens when you feel overwhelmed with too many tasks.
What is task overload/overwhelm?
Giving a coworker a compliment is nice, but this shows more initiative.
What is offering to help with work?
Before making initiative a priority, you must first do this.
What is understand what it is?
This is an example of initiative at work: offering to help your boss with this.
What is a project/work?
Initiative helps build this feeling of control over your actions.
What is self-control?
A lack of this can prevent someone from taking initiative.
What is capability?
Initiative in your career helps you do this.
What is advance/grow in your career?
Initiative is something we can use and this—it helps distinguish us from others.
What is sets us apart from others?
This behavior does NOT show initiative: asking others to do this.
What is your work?
This is NOT promoted by initiative: confidence, achievement, or this?
What is self-doubt?
This mindset focuses only on execution, not new ideas.
What is focus on execution over innovation?
Initiative means watching for these and acting on them.
What are opportunities?
Having initiative allows you to properly do this with it.
What is utilize it?
Initiative involves going beyond this basic expectation.
What is your current job duties/position?
Initiative promotes this ability to understand yourself better.
What is self-awareness?
Someone with bounded rationality struggles to do this.
What is see beyond what they currently know?
Redoing all your work is less effective than doing this.
What is taking meaningful action or helping others?
Initiative is best defined as acting independently rather than this.
What is acting on impulse?
This type of worker waits instead of acting. Someone with initiative does the opposite.
What is a passive employee?
Initiative helps build this mindset—overcoming fear and trying new things.
What is confidence/fear-busting mindset?
This is NOT a barrier to initiative—it actually supports it.
What is thinking outside the box?
Initiative is important because it gives you an advantage over this group.
What is your competition/others?