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Weekly Reflection

Reflect on and add the scenarios where you were a Giver, Taker, or Matcher and see the results on a chart.

Instructions:

Reflect on situations at work, with clients, and in your personal life over the last week. Write them down in this table and indicate whether you were a Giver, Taker, or Matcher in the situation. Adam's
assessment on his website
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should give you a good baseline for where you are. Some questions from Adam's quiz to help with your reflections:
You and a stranger will both receive some money. You have three choices about what you and the stranger will receive, and you’ll never see or meet the stranger. Which option would you choose?
You’re applying for a job as a manager, and a former boss writes you a glowing recommendation letter. What would you be most likely to do?
A new colleague joins your organization in a different department. When you meet her, she mentions that her husband is searching for a job and doesn't have many contacts in the area. She asks if you happen to know anyone at Kramerica Industries, a local firm, and you say yes. The next day, you remember that you have connections at three other local companies that do very similar work to Kramerica's. What would you do?

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Workplace Scenario
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Client Scenario
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Personal Scenario
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Clear sample data
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Type
Scenario
You were a:
Giver
Taker
Matcher
Date Entered
Workplace
Offered to help colleague with her prezo since she helped me before
Taker
Giver
Taker
Matcher
3/5/21
Former manager wrote me a glowing recommendation, so I offered to write one for one of my former employees to pay it forward
Giver
Giver
Taker
Matcher
2/24/21
My team is working on 3 projects and 1 one of them is really boring. I volunteered for the boring task so that I can ask my teammates for a favor later.
Matcher
Giver
Taker
Matcher
3/5/21
Colleague is working on a startup and asks for an introduction to the CEO of a successful tech company. The CEO used to be my neighbor 5 years ago. Told my colleague I'm not comfortable making the intro since I haven't talked to the CEO in a while.
Taker
Giver
Taker
Matcher
3/5/21
Clients
Gave a client a good deal on a package a year ago, and client comes back this year asking me for a better deal. I said I can give them the same deal on price but nothing else.
Matcher
Giver
Taker
Matcher
3/7/21
A client vouched for my product up to the CEO, but ultimately deal did not get signed. I gave the client a good deal on something else anyway.
Giver
Giver
Taker
Matcher
3/7/21
Personal
Student from NYU reaches out to me asking for job openings at my company. I told the student I would help him out if he can help my nephew get into NYU.
Matcher
Giver
Taker
Matcher
3/7/21
I recently got elected to the board of my HOA, and decide to do community service so I can make a case for when I run for president.
Taker
Giver
Taker
Matcher
3/7/21
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❓Were you a Giver, Matcher, or Taker this past week?

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Jan 1, 1 - Dec 31, 3999
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