If you’re feeling a little (or maybe a lot) put out that people at work take advantage of you, take this little true/false test.
- Your goal is to be well-liked and everyone’s friend all the time, every time.
- Your favorite phrase is “we’ll see.”
- You’re the one who always gets asked to plan holiday parties, bake cupcakes, organize the potluck — usually at the last minute — and pulls it off no matter if you have to skip sleep to make it so.
- Your comfort zone has been the same size for the last ten years.
- You’re almost an urban legend for never having been heard to utter “no.”
- You are your boss’s go-to person for all last minute project requests.
- You quietly finish and/or correct a direct report’s work, knowing they’ll do better next time.
- Everyone in your department “meets expectations” on their performance review and gets the same size raise.
- You’re the first to be asked to make department budget cuts, and your percent of decrease is larger than other departments.
- The last time you defended a colleague, a direct report, yourself was…never.
- When asked to define what you’re most passionate about, most people say you’re really nice.
- People transfer out of your department but no one has ever been fired out of it.
If you answered true to more than three, get thee to a coach, colleague or close friend who can help you become more assertive!