Rereading once too often, waiting until it’s ready, delegating nothing: what if your thoroughness costs you more than it’s worth?
From the outside, everything looks under control. From the inside, it’s a race with no finish line: whatever you achieve, the ideal moves just as far away. This module shows you what this pursuit costs you, and costs your team, then gives you another way to aim high: deliver, listen to what actually happens, and stop when it’s good enough.
~20 min at your own paceKey skill: Managing PerfectionismAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
What you’ll take away
- an awareness of what really fuels the pursuit of perfection
- three habits to set your limits before you start, and deliver sooner
- a fresh look at your team members’ thoroughness, to encourage or temper
Who it’s for
Anyone who spends a long time polishing before daring to deliver, and managers who support a perfectionist on their team.
Learning objectives
- Recognize how perfectionism works: a target that keeps moving away, driven more by “I have to” than by high standards.
- Assess what perfectionism costs the team: delayed decisions, slowed innovation, and projects that are never delivered.
- Apply 3 practical habits designed for perfectionists: define “good enough” before you start, set a limit, and deliver, then listen to feedback.
- Support a perfectionist team member without feeding their fear, by aiming for what helps them grow rather than flawlessness.
How does this module work?
The steps of the Adaptive module.
- Self-assessmentOn nine dimensions, to gauge current habits and guide the practice.
- Expert videoA ~10 min video with three pauses for reflection.
- Practice scenariosThe first two scenarios chosen from the self-assessment, then sixteen more, optional. Every answer gets feedback: what it leads to, and one way to improve.
- Dated commitmentOne action to try, written by the learner or chosen from the suggestions.
- Memo to downloadKey takeaways, questions, commitment, personal notes, and checklists.
Duration: ~20 min. Excluding bonus practice scenarios and optional in-depth content.
