Positive personality trait
Laid-back
Relaxed, easygoing, and not easily troubled by pressure.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Keeps an informal, unhurried manner while others are rushing.
- Does not fret over small rules, loose plans or other people's habits.
- Helps nervous people loosen up by staying unbothered themselves.
Fits when someone has an informally unhurried and unworried manner
Not when the context is formal or the person is disengaged from an important duty
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: the word is informal, and to an employer it can suggest too little drive. Show steady results under pressure instead, and let a reference describe the easy manner.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is laid-back in the best way: [nervous performers, new volunteers or first-time clients] relaxed around them, and nothing they were responsible for was ever late.
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Report card comment [Name] has a relaxed, friendly manner that helps nervous classmates feel at ease.
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In a story, shown not told The ferry was two hours late. He stretched out on the bench with his hat over his eyes, handed the kids a deck of cards, and told them to wake him if anyone started cheating.
Her laid-back manner helped the nervous performers loosen up backstage.
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