Question

Contrast the areas in your career you find relatively easy to plan against the ones you find to be more challenging. Also, indicate an area related to your career where the lack of flexibility may be a hindrance if you are unwilling to deviate from an original plan. Please use appropriate grammar and good sentence structure, while also proofreading your work prior to submission.

Answer 1

The area in my career which I find easiest to plan is that which involves individual work. Since the entire work has to be done by me, I am able to plan everything in detail and can execute as per plan. If any activity goes beyond the planned time limits, I put extra efforts and hours to get things on track. As there is no dependency on anyone else, I plan as per my suitability and get the work completed in defined time lines.

In contrast, the area in my career which is more challenging to plan is that which involves a joint effort from various employees. An individual can plan for his or her work but cannot do the same for some one else. In a group work, even if one person is slow the entire group's work gets effected. It has happened to me that I along with some other colleagues did our work on time, however there were a few who were slow and not that dedicated, This resulted in delay in completion of the work. One may go ahead and start helping others to get their work completed in time, however it is not that smooth and cannot succeed always until the owner of that particular work co-operates.

An area in my career where I realized that lack of flexibility may be a big hindrance is working on a totally new assignment which has never been done before. In such an assignment, people can make plans as per certain assumptions as they do not have actual experience of the assignment. While working, the actual situation may turn out to be very different and one needs to quickly make changes in the original plan so as to complete the work in the defined time lines. If one is not willing to deviate from the original plan, the work may get haywire and get delayed by a long duration or even result in a defective product. Therefore, to successfully complete new assignments in planned time lines it very important to have flexible mindset.