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How To Swing An Internal Job Move When Your Boss Really Wants You To Stay Put

Christine — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:35:22 +0000

Hats off to you.

You’ve managed to hold on to your job through countless rounds of redundancies and reorganisations. And what you’re doing has become so much more mission critical to your boss as a result.

But you’ve got other ideas.

As relieved and flattered as you are, you just don’t want to keep doing the same thing. You’re ready to learn new stuff and take on new challenges. Everything you’ve ever understood leads you to believe that should be possible by making an internal move in your current firm.

Good bosses and good HR will take account of your personal development plans in the whole staffing mix.

But the reality is that most bosses aren’t that good. Many don’t think big picture. Or see that supporting your development reflects well on them. Or recognize that helping you move to another internal job, is a way of keeping you engaged with the business. Instead, they prefer to cling on to their own good resource.

And many HR departments lack the power or influence to make it different.

So, if you want to stay with your current firm, but move to another area, you’re going to have to adopt a little cunning in making it happen for yourself.

Networks

You may be brilliant at what you do and feel that you’ve given so much to your company that they should now play fair with you.

But, as Nick Clegg’s gaff yesterday highlighted, so much professional mobility is less about having success conferred upon you, and more about who you know. Or, more importantly, who knows you.

Think about it. Where do you want to move to? Who are the decision makers in that area?And how well do they know you?

If a job came up in their area, would they be soliciting HR’s opinion about how to get you released from your current area?

That’s kind of the situation you want to be aiming to engender.

How you do so is to find legitimate ways to network with them. And with the people who in turn influence them.

Advocacy

Notice that I said “legitimate” ways to interact.

What that doesn’t mean is approaching prospective bosses out of the blue and asking if they’ve got a job in their team. They get approaches for jobs every day and if you’re an unknown name or entity to them, they’re just going to brush you off. And you’ll have lost your chance.

Instead, you have to take to their table something that simultaneously show-cases you, and is of great value to them.

Volunteer yourself to be the member of a project they are leading and knock their socks off with your content knowledge, sparkling point of view, and action list follow through.

Find something that is mission critical to their business, and go share it with them. A leading edge piece of technical content that you’ve helped to craft. A game-changing piece of information on a client you both provide a service to.

But be yourself in the process too. Don’t make it look like you’re trying. Engage socially. You want to build real relationships with these folk whose radar screen you’re intent on crashing. After all, if one of them becomes a new boss, you want to have a good connection, right?

Transparency

Of course, the last thing you want to do is to be subversive or be seen as having gone behind your current bosses back in these things.

I always adopt the ethos that it’s always better to beg forgiveness than ask permission. So, tell her what you’re up to for information sharing purposes.

You might rattle her cage, but you’re sure going to rattle it anyway if an internal offer comes without her suspecting anything about it. Or you get so fed up with her blocking you that you leave. So, a little controlled rattling can be a useful part of the process.

This kind of approach takes time and involves a lot of work from you. But if you’re determined to support your own development, you can make it work for you.

What about you?

Are you being blocked by a clingy boss? What have you tried doing to escape? What has and hasn’t worked? Share your experiences here!

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How To Re-Engage With Your Job (Even When You’d Really Rather Not)

Christine — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:27:30 +0000

You didn’t imagine you’d be sat there much longer. But the uncertainties in the marketplace are making your job search or longed for promotion take more time than you’d hoped.

One of the most soul-destroying things is turning up for a job every day when you outgrew it some time ago, but need to stick with it so that you can make the money that pays the rent or mortgage. Time drags, you feel exhausted, and the whole thing can feel pointless.

You might tell yourself that this is okay for you. But is it really? On the one hand, life’s too short to be miserable for a considerable chunk of it. On the other, if you let your disengagement run, you take the risk of under-performing at a time when your career – and your employer – need you to be working well.

So much of re-engaging, even if you’d rather not, comes down to breathing some positive energy into yourself. Here are five ideas to help kick-start your enthusiasm:

Choose What This Time Will Mean. If you allow it, the current scenario can seem both endless and meaningless. But you can take back some power by deciding what this time will mean for you. For some it might be about making sure you stay in a good financial place; for others it could be about developing some quality or skill in yourself. Find the positive opportunity and go after it.
Avoid the news. If you watch too much news at the moment, you’d be forgiven for feeling beyond depressed. It can have the effect of taking us beyond our sphere of influence to things that are black, but which we can do little to influence. Maintain a healthy curiosity in what’s going on by all means, but make sure your focus stays on the things in your life and work that you can control.
Set short term goals for yourself. When one week merges into the next, it’s easy to feel that you’re not achieving much. You can give yourself another experience by becoming ruthless about setting yourself weekly and daily goals. Things you’ve been putting off? Things you’d really rather not? Get them on the list and confront them. Then watch your spirits grow as you tick off each item.
Lean on your professional networks. Connect with some of your peers on- or offline and see how things are going for them. Reaching out beyond yourself and your current role can be both normalizing and inspiring.
Invest in life. If work at the office is tedious, help yourself to keep your energy bank topped up by making sure you have good things to engage with in other parts of your life: your partner, family, friends and hobbies. And manage your work/life boundaries too. You might think you should struggle into the office even if you’re ill, or sit there into the wee hours in case a client calls. But you’re almost certainly doing yourself more long term harm than good in the process. Don’t neglect your self care in tough times. At the end of the day, you are all that you have.

These are five things that work for me and for folks I work with. How about you? What stands out from this list? And what haven’t I thought of that you’d add?

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Warning: More Government Insanity About Jobs On The Way

Christine — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:52:36 +0000

You’ve got to love the UK coalition government. A couple of weeks ago they were expressing disappointment that the private sector may not, after all, be able to pick up the slack on public sector job losses. And today Iain Duncan Smith pronounced that the unemployment issue is really one of inefficient job matching.

“It’s not the absence of jobs that’s the problem. It’s the failure to match the unemployed to the jobs there are.”

Priceless.

The naivety that even in an environment of price and tax increases, the private sector would have buoyant employment itself beggars belief. But quite separate to the economic concerns, the number balancing myth being espoused shows a complete lack of understanding about organizations and people.

The whole thing is being looked at as a pseudo-logical, two dimensional problem. And it isn’t.

First, public and private sectors serve different purposes. The organizational cultures between, and among them vary widely. I’m not saying that one is better than the other; they are just different, and no account is being taken of that. Nor of people’s ability or readiness to adapt between one and the other.

Second, the skills, talents and mindsets that people need to be successful across the piece vary widely too.

This dehumanizing stand of trying to force-fit people to job vacancies, even by providing retraining, pays scant attention to what best brings people alive. Sure there are jobs out there. But how many of them are jobs that would make you happy to get up in the morning? And there’s still a war for talent raging that even retraining is not going to assuage.

Beyond everything else, the whole approach is being looked at and managed from an increasingly outmoded concept of work.

It’s ignoring that underneath all of this government imposed mayhem, there’s a quiet revolution afoot about what work is and how it should be brokered. It’s taking a status quo attitude to something that’s already changing at a deep level.

Which means that the whole thing just feels more and more crazy. And I see only more craziness on the horizon.

What if you’re stuck in the middle of this?

I speak to people across public and private sectors who are in the middle of big upheaval around work right now. Particularly in the public sector, it’s so difficult not to feel a deep sense of betrayal and confusion about what’s going on. The contract you had – the psychological contract – around your work for the government has been unilaterally rewritten. And you are left wondering what’s happening.

It’s difficult not to take on the government’s insanity and think it’s yours; to see yourself as being somehow disappointing or to be failing in some way. And to feel disempowered at a time when you need all your creative resources supporting you.

But that craziness isn’t yours. It’s theirs, although they’ll never own it. And you need to believe this in your heart of hearts to get yourself through the impending “work crunch” ahead.

How else are you staying positive in the current mad times? What can you share here that would be of benefit to others in helping them get a great outcome from a difficult moment?
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How Being A Little Badass Will Help You Thrive In 2011

Christine — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:35:19 +0000

What mindset are you choosing to adopt as you come into this New Year? That’s the question I’m asking as we kick off the Recession Proof Your Career in 2011 series.

With the squeeze on jobs and small businesses there are two places you might be. The first is siege mentality: head down, resigned to whatever comes and feeling pretty powerless about it all.

The second is seeing yourself in the director’s seat of your own work and life, allowing the perspective and energy of that place to keep you mobile and alert to this year’s possibilities. Whatever they may be.

Assuming you’re adopting the second of these mindsets, one of the things that’s going to help you is unleashing your inner rebel.

Get badass

A lot of you professional folks have done well in the world of work and business, not because you break rules, but because you’re beyond brilliant at following them. Sometimes you censure yourself rather than risk stepping outside of safe parameters. Even when you’re breaking the rules it’s in acceptable ways.

Now, I’m not suggesting that you do anything to put yourself or anyone else in danger. On the contrary, I’m suggesting that you could help recession proof yourself by taking more of the right kind of risks.

You see, the world of work is changing. For all of us there’ll be a little bit of reinvention involved. And you need a tiny bit of rebellion to push against what needs to change.

What rules do you need to challenge or break for yourself this year? How might adding a bit of rebellion add a bit of zest to your career? How do you imagine that’s going to positively support you?

And to make sure you get first hand news of the coaching package accompanying this series, make sure you’re on my VIP list by subscribing here.

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Recession Proof Your Career In 2011

Christine — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:26:21 +0000

Happy New Year to you! Did you manage to get a bit of a break over Christmas? How are things now that the decs are down and life is getting back to normal?

Normal.

I’m so aware that for some of you that’s not a comfortable place right now. My UK public sector readers are already seeing the effects of our Government’s austerity measures. And private sector folks from both the UK and US have just lived through, what in some instances is the third wave of redundancies at their firms.

It’s no surprise to read Manpower’s latest statistics showing that 84% of workers they interviewed said they were going to be looking for a new job in 2011. So, if moving on from what you’re doing right now was on your New Year resolutions list, you are in very good company.

And it’s not difficult to understand why. There’s so much negativity about the world of employment, so much uncertainty. Changing jobs is a key way to demonstrate, if only to yourself, that you still have some control over your career.

But with the CIPD saying that this is going to be “the worst year for jobs”, and the prediction that 1 in 10 people will be unemployed by year end, you could well be fearing that your desire to change your work in some way is a completely futile dream.

Recession Proof Your Career in 2011

Talking directly to that dilemma, I’m going to be running a series of posts over the next couple of weeks on how you can recession-proof your career. Way I see it is that work is one of the fundamental drivers in life. It’s core to who you are. How do you best put your gifts and talents to the service of the world and benefit yourself in the process? It’s hugely dispiriting when your ability to do that is closed down because forces beyond you limit what you can do or even dream of.

So, you need to get craftier than the system. See it as a chess game. Figure a strategy for yourself. Outsmart it.

Because all good strategies begin with a vision of where they’re heading, the first posts in the series, coming your way from next Monday, are going to be getting you thinking about yours. What mindset are you seeing things through as you come into 2011. What do you want for your work? And how does that jive with what you want from what you want from life in general? How do you duck and dive if what you thought you wanted is no longer up for grabs?

Also, it’s one thing to want to escape what you’re doing right now. It’s quite another to take yourself on a positive, forward looking path. So, included in the series there’ll be a pot pourri of posts, mixing practical advice on job searching with inspiration to get you into a great mindset about the whole job change process.

As part of my Recession Proof Your Career season, I’m also going to be launching a coaching package giving some of you the chance to work with me one-to-one to go through a work transformation process tailor-made for you and your personal circumstances.

Just a little heads up about what’s coming! Wouldn’t want you to miss it.

And make sure you’re subscribed to my Newsletter list to get the coaching package details before they go live on the blog by joining it here.

Meantime, in the comments tell me what you’d like me to make sure I cover in this series for it to be of full value to you.

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How Bosses Gamble With Your Loyalty: 5 Ways To Protect Yourself

Christine — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:03:12 +0000

Companies often take their best, most dedicated people for granted. When bosses are awash with all kind of short- and long-term problems, loyal old, hardworking you are the last thing that gets on their agenda as needing time, attention and consideration.

Which can leave you feeling more than a tad resentful. Not good when you’re trying to make work a more peaceful, positive feature of your life.

Here are five ways that bosses can take the piss. And five things that you can do to protect yourself.

Dumping additional responsibility without your agreement

You know how it goes – you’ve already got work projects up to your armpits, and then she tells you you’ve been given something else. Typically with a short deadline.

Don’t just bitch about it with your colleagues over lunch. Do push back.

This isn’t about whether you actually want the extra responsibility or not. It’s about making sure that your boss doesn’t forget that you’ve got skin in the game too. So, have a quiet word and put yourself on her map. “Thanks for the extra piece of work. In future, however, I’d prefer if you could talk to me before assuming I’ll just take it on. I need to be able to balance these things with my other workload.”

Cutting you out of communication

You hear from a colleague, or worse, from a client, of something that has happened that materially impacts your job. You’re expected to be okay about it, even though it has never been shared directly with you.

Again, don’t sulk.

Go to your boss and check it out with her.

Then, remind her that, next time something happens that affects you, you’d like to be aware of it before other people.

Scheduling things without considering you

Keen to make progress on an important piece of work, she schedules a big client or team meeting right in the middle of a time when she’s already given you approval to be off.

You may feel pressure to either change your plans, or, worse, come in during your break.

Don’t. Instead, push back and assert yourself. “I committed to my family to be on holiday at that time and I don’t want to go back on it.” Stay strong and put the scheduling problem back at your boss’s door. Either she’ll go ahead without you, or rearrange. Let that be her call.

Not giving you a pay rise or bonus

The rationale you’ll get is that times are hard and there’s a limited salary budget. If you feel aggrieved about this or hard done by, don’t whinge about it.

Negotiate.

Make a hardcore case for the value you’re delivering to your team or business, and put the rise you want into numbers.

Your boss can either say yes or no. Either way, you’ve kept your power and spoken up for yourself.

Contacting you in personal time

Sunday afternoon. You’re just settling down to watch the Grand Prix or the football, when she calls on your BlackBerry. She’s in the middle of putting a presentation together and needs information from you to complete it.

You might want to throw your phone at the wall. But wait.

Instead, either just don’t answer the call when you see her name coming up on the screen. Or, answer and tell her politely you can’t answer her request right now.

Ongoing, assert your right to decide on your personal policy about being interrupted during your evenings and weekends.

You know, on the whole bosses don’t mean to cut you out of things. And it’s often a huge back-handed compliment that they feel you’ll just run with stuff they fling at you. But if their behavior leaves you feeling taken for granted, it’s important that you remember your own value, even if it’s not being reflected day-by-day by your boss. Remember that you have personal power and choice, and don’t be shy about reminding them you exist.

Do you get taken for granted by your boss? In what sort of ways? And how do you deal with it positively?

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How Safe Is Your Career From Extinction?

Christine — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:27:10 +0000

With temperatures reaching 20 degrees centigrade, it’s been summer again over the weekend here in the South of England. But, with David Cameron’s call for us to pull together to get Britain back on track, at the same time as Civil Service Unions were negotiating redundancy payment terms that could allow up to 100,000 job losses, there’s no doubt that winter is on the way.

Some of my people are right in the middle of this, already feeling destabilized and wondering what it all means.

Others are working for firms who have made a living from selling to the public sector, and are feeling a draft as budgets for IT, consultancy, recruitment, advertising and other services are slashed.

I’m imagining that the UK government believes the slack they’re about to pump into the system will be picked up by the private sector. But that’s certainly not what’s happening in the US, where 64,000 new private sector jobs, were significantly outweighed by 159,000 US Government job losses in September. And although there’s upturn in some UK companies, I’m still hearing stories of folks having just survived third and fourth rounds of cuts.

With all of this going on, I fear that we’re about to live through the death of certain traditional professional, administrative and support service jobs. It’s the twenty first century equivalent of the demise of the mining industry. But it’s likely to be even more insidious because the skill sets involved are associated with less obvious or tangible outcomes. There will be no silent pit heads; no derelict mines. The wastelands will be more virtual and emotional.

And I suspect too that my focus here on the public sector is only the tip of an iceberg. That we’ll only understand the full impact of our respective governments actions on the shape and nature of jobs and careers as their whole economy-saving measures unfold.

Still, it’s a very real and current problem. How confident are you that you can take your years of highly specialized training and experience and find a home for them elsewhere?

Dinosaur or phoenix?

I sure don’t have all the answers, but it seems to me that as the world of work morphs from the known to the unknown, we each have an individual choice about how we frame our response to the challenge.

Will we be dinosaurs, doing nothing other than keeping our heads down and imagining that the problem will blow over? Or that catastrophe is inevitable?

Or will we be phoenixes? Will we choose to understand that life may indeed be burning our current way of working to a pile of ashes. But that we can use a metaphoric death to give us new energy, vitality and sense of direction?

Assuming you choose the latter, there are things you can do now to ride with the tide of reinvention.

Conventional solutions

For a start there are some conventional things you should be doing as standard. Like doing a stock-take of yourself, your skills and your personal qualities, and putting together a compelling CV or resume. My friend Julie Walraven is a phenomenal resource in helping you get market-ready. She’s also brilliant in supporting you to pitch for things you decide to target, and in helping you use social media in the process, especially LinkedIn.

These things help to build your confidence and get you thinking about how you might reorient yourself for different jobs that use your current skills set.

Unconventional solutions

But these are unconventional times. So, in addition to having good basics in order, let the threat of change give you the permission you need to think laterally and creatively about what you do for a living.

So, you may be a department manager in the civil service right now, and could apply for general management jobs elsewhere. But what else could you do?

What else would you love to do?

What areas of growth do you see opening up that could allow you to use your talents in radically different ways?

What’s small now that’s going to get bigger?

How could you think about work differently than you have in the past and what does that unlock for you?

And don’t just think about what you’d do. Consider how you’d do it.

If you were working your notice, with a threatened layoff now about to become reality, what would you be doing differently? How would you be prioritizing work versus family, friends and interests?

How would you manage your time differently to give you more of the balance you’ve been looking for?

How would you play political games differently so that you felt less taken for granted by your bosses?

Even before the latest scenario on public sector jobs, I was talking about a band of folks who’d already taken it upon themselves to recreate their relationship with work. This most recent development is but another catalyst in a sea of change.

Don’t wait till the economy or the government decide that your career is extinct to act. Get your own plan and start bringing it to life today. Even if you end up keeping your job, you’ll feel a hundred times better about it if you’re in the driving seat.

What changes are you seeing in your area of career expertise? What’s the challenge in that for you and how are you responding?

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How The Threat Of Lay Off Can Scare You Sh*tless (And What To Do About It)

Christine — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:28:02 +0000

So, there have been like three rounds of job cuts at your place already over the last couple of years. And just when you were beginning to think it might finally be safe enough to move from your rented apartment to buying your own place, they put you under notice of lay off again.

The firm’s $100m profit is well down on budget and measures must be taken. Blah. Blah…

On the one hand it’s good to be told there’s a threat so you’ve got time to do something about it. On the other hand, the fear that you’re going to be one of those tapped on the shoulder in a month’s time can scare you witless.

Here’s how to get a grip.

Get The Facts

Detail can be thin on the ground during times of restructuring. Part of that is because leadership is often genuinely uncertain about exactly how things will pan out. But while good leaders will be confident about sharing what they do and don’t know, others will add to the air of suspicion and uncertainty by hiding in a cupboard for the next four weeks, or avoiding eye contact with you at all costs.

And scary monsters breed in silence.

You absolutely must put yourself in the driving seat here and make sure you know as many of the facts as you can. How many jobs are going? How many from your team? What processes are going to be used to select in or out? Will you have to apply or interview for your job? What’s that going to look like? What are the timescales? Is there any practical or emotional support being offered to you during this time? How would you be able to access it?

Focus On Your Deliverables

Once you’ve got the facts, focus on them. It’s really tempting to allow your productivity to slip, and take sneaky breaks down to Starbucks to bitch with colleagues about what may or may not happen. But while keeping other people onside with you is good, indulging in speculation can just make you feel more crappy.

Avoid this by making sure you keep a focus on what it is you’re supposed to be delivering each week and indeed each day. I’m sure you already have a To Do list, but you need to hold yourself accountable more so than ever for achieving it. Being able to tick things off and see things completed, gives you a sense of achievement and keep your personal confidence in a good place. Essential for keeping you bouyant during tough times.

Find The Certainty In The Uncertainty

Sometimes knowing what it is you should be doing is far from obvious. If you’ve been through round after round of terminations lately, the shifts in your job role can be seismic enough to be making you feel seasick.

Instead of feeling rudderless and waiting for senior management to sort things out, help yourself by figuring the things in the current picture that you can be certain about, running with them, and allowing that to anchor you.

At worst you may be criticized for doing something that’s off piste. At best you’ll be praised for your initiative. Either way, you’re keeping your own energy in the game.

Confront The Worst That Can Happen

What specifically is it that’s scaring you sh*tless?

That you won’t be able to keep paying your rent? That the loan you took out two years ago to bail out your credit card debt is at risk of being unpaid? That you’ll have to give notice on your gym membership and – hey – aren’t you on a twelve month commitment period there anyway?

That you won’t get another job? That your job is becoming a dinosaur and no-one’s hiring your skill set any more?

However gruesome and ugly these fears are, get them down on a bit of paper and start looking at them.

Figure Your Back Up Plan

Take each of your fears and ask, “what would I do if…?” Brainstorm your answers. Talk them through with a friend or hire a coach and come up with positive concrete ways of dealing with the worst case possibilities.

This could include thinking through what conversations you’d have with banks and other lenders about your finances. Or with friends about temporarily moving in while you get back on your feet. Or with ways to work out that don’t include gym fees. You may never have to resort to these things, but just knowing that you’ve got alternatives frees up serious head space.

Your plans should also include making sure that your resume is up to date and that your professional and personal networks are vibrant and in place.

It may even include taking time to blue sky ideas for setting up your own thing completely outside of a corporate arena. Who knows, if the conditions are right, the push – or even the fear of it – could be just the impetus you need to break out of your corporate set up altogether.

Living with the threat of lay off hanging over you can be a seriously depressing. But you can change the script on that by taking back your personal power and finding your own positive way through.

What talks to you in all of this? What other ideas would you add to help others in this scenario?

7 Warning Signs That It’s Time To Quit Your Job

Christine — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:33:32 +0000

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According to a recent survey, 40% of professionals are considering going in search of a new job when they get back from their summer vacation. They’re battle weary after months of slogging it out in positions where their promotion prospects are disappearing, their bosses aren’t living espoused company values, and their bonuses are being cut.

It’s not surprising news. I’m hearing all the time from clients and friends just how much they want to quit. I’ve written elsewhere about being careful about not rushing to escape.

But how do you know when it really is time to go? Here are 7 signs that indicate the end is, indeed, in sight.

You dislike what you’re doing. You’ve got to the point where you’re more than just bored, or not enjoying what you do. It’s becoming an active hatred. You can feel it sitting on you like a lead weight on your heart. It’s affecting your whole outlook on life.
You feel no connection with your boss or colleagues. If you ever trusted your boss, that’s gone never to return. And, there’s no-one at work you can really call your friend.
You’d really rather stay in bed. You’re struggling to get up in the morning, and it’s an effort to get yourself together for your day.
You can never get on top of your workload. No matter how hard you try, you never feel that you’re getting on top of things. You might just about get there when the goal posts change again and you’re back to square one.
You’re constantly ill. Despite whatever you do to de-stress, you’ve always got some kind of minor health problem going on. Whether it’s a cold, flu, whatever, you also notice these things becoming more difficult to shrug off and recover from.
You’re living for weekends and holidays. The benefits of them, however, last only a few days before you feel that you’ve never been away.
You’ve tried your damnedest to make things better. You’re a pro. You’ve read all the advice in this and other blogs about how to hack your career and you’ve applied it all religiously. Without success. You’re done with trying.

Sometimes the best thing to do is walk away. Some companies are just not for you. Don’t waste your energy and make yourself chronically ill trying to force fit yourself to a scenario that was never for you.

Sure, there are pragmatic considerations around how you get yourself out, what you subsequently do, and how you finance yourself in the process. It may take you time, but if it’s right to go, do yourself a favor and make that a firm decision. That’s step one. The rest will follow. And you’ll wonder why you slogged it out for so long!

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What Keeps You Awake At Night?

Christine — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:00:11 +0000

The other day I was doing a thorough review of the analytics of my site with Marketing Coach, Jim Connolly.

We discovered an interesting thing.

Lots of people are reading my stuff at 2am.

There could be two reasons for this:

Either you’re so passionate about what you’re doing that you’re burning the candle on social media searches. Or some problem is keeping you awake, enticing you online in search of solutions.

My writing and outlook on life can be very upbeat. Sometimes I struggle to get across that I know what it’s like to see no solution to your problems. But the truth is I’ve been there myself in spades. Which means I’m not just well equipped, but also delighted to support you find your way through whatever challenges you’re currently facing.

You’re unlikely to disclose what’s going on for you on a post comment. But I just want you to know that I love getting emails and calls out of the blue from people who have read the blog and just want to reach out confidentially.

So, if there’s something you’d like help with, email me on christine (at) adifferentkindofwork.com, or pick the phone up to me on +44 (0) 7767 244977.

I look forward to hearing from you.