A specific reading of six reported habits
This part concerns what you reported doing after a plan met reality during the past two weeks: updating next actions, comparing actual and estimated time, revising an impossible deadline, raising a delivery risk, deciding what to continue or stop, and checking carried-over work. It does not measure a manager’s performance rating, honesty or objective reliability.
Six complete frequency responses give one keyed mean, with no ranking or cutoffs. Any skip withholds this part only.
What these six items describe
This part concerns what you reported doing after a plan met reality during the past two weeks: updating next actions, comparing actual and estimated time, revising an impossible deadline, raising a delivery risk, deciding what to continue or stop, and checking carried-over work. It does not measure a manager’s performance rating, honesty or objective reliability.
Read more and less frequent signals
- A higher keyed mean reflects more reported review and communication under these six items. It does not prove that a renegotiation was accepted or that the resulting plan worked. A lower mean may reflect fewer review opportunities, uncertainty about whom to contact or a setting where raising risks is difficult. It should start a specific question rather than a judgement about character.
- Changing a plan is not automatically poor follow-through, and preserving a plan is not automatically responsible. The context includes dependencies, authority and who bears the costs of change. This questionnaire cannot allocate blame or decide whether a promise was reasonable.
An approval arrives late
Suppose a draft depends on approval that arrives a day late. One possible response is to update the next step, identify what can still be completed and discuss a revised delivery boundary with the relevant person. Quietly moving every unfinished item into tomorrow can conceal the same conflict. Neither response alone shows why the approval was delayed.
Use a short, bounded review
Choose one current plan. Ask what changed, what still matters and who needs an update. Record one revised next action, including a decision to stop or wait if that is appropriate. Compare the clarity of the plan afterwards; do not add compulsory check-ins or disclose another person’s information just to practice reviewing.
Read the keyed mean, completeness and close values
- Each part contains six items rated from 1 to 5; two reverse-worded items use 6 minus the response. The six contributions are averaged and displayed to one decimal. For example, a sum of 23 gives 23/6, displayed as 3.8. This is an editorial descriptive score, without norms, cutoffs, percentiles or evidence that a small difference is meaningful. The four parts are not added, ranked or converted into a personality type.
- All six frequency responses are required for a mean in that part. Any no-occasion or prefer-not-to-answer choice withholds that part’s mean, while other complete parts remain readable. Missing is not a low score and is not imputed. Similar means can hide different answers; read the individual situations privately rather than inventing a winner or comparing people’s competence.
Source and an optional next step
- FermatMind wrote these items, groupings, examples and scoring rules for adult self-reflection. The linked university time-management resources provide practical background, not validation of this questionnaire or a licence to reproduce another test. The past-two-week window is an editorial choice. Language, workload and opportunity can change answers; keeping the arithmetic identical does not establish cross-language equivalence.
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