What To Do When You Feel Blindsided By Projects Being Reassigned Away From You

You step on the brakes so you can make a turn and climb a hill.

A lesson I shared with a client who started the session feeling blindsided by her projects being reassigned away from her at work.

She’s someone who’s always pressed on the accelerator…

Through her PhD dissertation, and later into a promising director role with a multinational company.

But now that things are slowing down and she has bandwidth

It feels very uncomfortable.

Like people don’t have confidence in her (otherwise, why would they withhold more work from her?).

It hadn’t yet occurred to her that her current workload (or the lack of it) could have NOTHING to do with her competence, how she’s perceived, or her potential.

That it could have everything to do with office politics above her pay grade.

In the coaching session, I guided her through an exercise to engage her subconscious

The vast part of us that can process eleven million bits of information per second.

The deeper, wiser part of us.

Her subconscious let her know that beneath the discomfort was knowing.

Knowing that she has a growth opportunity bigger than her fears and doubts.

She realized she could use this time to initiate conversations with senior leaders she’d always wanted to have.

There was nothing wrong with her career.

Only growth to be realized. In her own terms.

Slowing down to speed up.

It’s a beautiful thing.

Do you want to be supported through the ups and downs of your career journey, so that you make the most of every unexpected curveball or crossroads?

So you can be your own best advocate in a way that’s aligned with your whole brain, and create results like these?

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