Positive personality trait

Levelheaded

adj. Calm and able to make sensible decisions under pressure.

4 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu

What it looks like

  • Stays calm and thinks clearly in an emergency.
  • Weighs the facts before reacting.
  • Keeps others steady when they panic.

Fits when a person stays calm and thinks clearly in a crisis

Not when the calm comes from not caring, or levelheaded would understate real courage

How to say it

Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.

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

  • Resume line
    Led [team] through [incident, outage or emergency] affecting [number] [people or systems], restoring [service] within [time].
  • Reference or recommendation
    [Name] is levelheaded: during [an emergency or crisis], they kept calm, took charge, and made the right calls in the right order.
  • Report card comment
    [Name] stays calm when things go wrong and helps classmates think a problem through.
  • In a story, shown not told
    The smoke alarm went off in the middle of the exam. While the others stood, she had already counted the room and was holding the door.
Example

The levelheaded lifeguard cleared the pool before anyone realized there was a problem.

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