Positive personality trait

Energetic

adj. Showing lively effort, movement, or enthusiasm.

3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu

What it looks like

  • Works at a brisk pace and keeps it up through a long day.
  • Brings life back to a room, a lesson or a meeting that has started to flag.
  • Takes on physical or busy tasks readily rather than waiting for someone else.

Fits when someone characteristically brings active vigor to situations

Not when you mean productive, athletic, or briefly stimulated by excitement

How to say it

Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.

There is no resume line for this one: on paper it reads as a claim about output, which a resume shows better with results. A reference or an interview shows the energy itself.

Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.

  • Reference or recommendation
    [Name] is energetic and keeps others going: on [long shifts, event days or busy periods] they kept the pace up and lifted the people around them.
  • Report card comment
    [Name] is energetic and throws themselves into every activity, from recess games to class projects.
  • In a story, shown not told
    By the time the others had found their boots, she had pitched both tents and gone for water. She came back at a run, swinging the bucket.
Example

The energetic facilitator kept the room moving through a long agenda.

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