Candidate M. ‘takes her work home too much’ ……
 

Situation
Soon after M. enters the Triceps office it becomes clear that she ‘takes her work home too much’ and that her personal and professional lives are far too entwined. As a manager, M. bites off far more than she can chew and she has too many areas of interest and far too little attention for her hobby: journalism. M. is concerned about everything and everyone and has a hard time delegating and setting priorities. M. would like to have children, but there are all manner of things she would like to do first. M. is highly focused on status and prestige.

Personal background
M. graduated in marketing from a university of applied sciences and has for the last 3.5 years been in a management position at a marketing department of a small organisation. She comes from a family with very strict values that was focused on achieving and on status. M. is married and would like to have children, but has not found the time for that yet due to her work.

Questions
1. How can I learn to better deal with my limits and boundaries?
2. How can I learn to deal with time, priorities and the things I want in a better or a different way?
3. What am I actually good at?

Approach
Triceps’ Talent Assessment helped M. gain an understanding of both her effective and her non-effective behaviour.
We furthermore determined that she belongs in a support position more than in a leadership position. In addition, we compared her Behaviour Profile to her Ambitions Profile. This resulted in a confirmation of her support role.
The development indications and subsequent training to help her develop from her current to her desired behaviour resulted in her finding a non-management job in the same organisation, which allowed for a better private-professional balance. Not long after this, M. got pregnant. She now combines her part-time job (3 days a week) with being a mother and writing texts for websites for entrepreneurs on a freelance basis.