The Result of Personal Needs Assessment

I promised I would show the answer and the result of the Personal Needs Assessment. Right now, there was a simple scoring method with you.

Personal Needs Assessment

Add the values of your responses and record the total for each types.
Social Interaction : 1, 5, 9, 13, 17
Acceptance : 2, 6, 10, 14, 18
Perfection : 3, 7, 11, 15, 19
Risk Avoidance : 4, 8, 12, 16, 20

A score of 16 or more indicates a high need.
A score of 20 or more indicates a need sufficiently strong to be a pontential problem in your effective use of time.

Mine score is 16, 15, 15, 18

Why we should do the Personal Needs Assessment?
Satisfying personal needs like social acceptance, perfection, and risk avoidance can waste a lot of time. Most people are unaware of this process. In addition, individuals take on extra work, respond to every request and feel good when some one appreciates them. Meanwhile, more important work is left undone. Therefore, we should understand ourselves more. It helped us to life happiness and work efficiency and effectiveness.

Social Interaction:
Many jobs allow for social interaction, some do not. People with high social needs waste their own time as well as the time of others. They become "drop-in" visitors with no agenda or a superficial one. Normally, we called crazy worker. They often forgot what they do in the work, however, they just have work and work in their mind. In their mind, he / she is the once in the world or working is the true.

Remedies / Suggestion:
1. Respect the time of others: Ask if the person has time to talk or set a later appointment. Is the other person anxious to do something else. Watch for stand up and moving away, glancing at papers, typing at the keyboard, returning to writing, or making calculation.

2. Develop ways to have your social need fulfilled productively: Lunch breaks with colleagues, scheduled meetings, request assignments to ad hoc team, group activities after work.

Acceptance
Work groups allow for a high-level of acceptance when members support each other, minimize the impact of demands from outside the group and reduce unreasonable demands on each other. People with high acceptance needs take on too much work. Others take advantage of them. This type of people, we called inferior.

Remedies / Suggestions:
1. As you address a task, note the benefit to the organization first, then apply effort. Reflect on the pride of having completed it. Don't depend on others for confirmation of your value. Otherwise, take inventory of the things you do well. Always focusing on what needs to be improved, allows for good work to be taken for granted or ignored. Include work and non-work items.

2. Learning to deal with requests by saving "no" or "later" when appropriated. The main important is "Priority of requests". Don't let the organizational rank or intensity of the person requesting a task to overshadow your judgment.

Perfection:
Some guys or gals wanna to establish some tasks require a high-level of quality output. By the way, others don't require such high-quality. You mush distinguish between the two. People who are perfectionists may waste time in creating perfection where it isn't needed. Others create imperfection and have to do the job ever! Actually, most of female are perfectionists.

Remedies / Suggestions:
Obtain a clear understanding of the quality required at first, if not disappointments are many! You must ask yourself do you want a precise or approximate answer? How much time & cost is needed to achieve a quality outcome? What quality level is expected? Finally, you should ask what is the cut-off on your range of acceptable quality?

Risk Avoidance:
To be honest, most of artists and designers are in this group. I don't know why but it's true. This type of people who avoid risks take more time studying and analyzing options, checking for support from others and waiting (hesitantly) to take action.

Remedies / Suggestions:
1. Examine what is at stake. Will you be embarrassed? Did you get fire? Did you hurt someone? Will the company lose money and business?

2. Explore the question. Consider about what if it does pan out. Ask yourself will you get what you wanna be? How to meet the deadline? How to save the money? And how to improve the business.

3. Compare the payoff with the cost of opportunity. If good, then move with conviction. If bad, abandon the idea.