Hitting a Flat Spot Can Feel Frustrating, But It’s Often a Turning Point For Growth
Reflect and Align for Strategic Advancement
Feeling stuck in your career, or any part of your life for that matter, doesn’t mean you’ve hit the end of the road. Instead, it often signals the start of something transformative. Embracing discomfort to reconnect with your purpose can be rewarding and the answer you’re looking for when at this inflection point. Whether you’re navigating uncertainty or craving more impact, these insights offer an actionable path to reignite momentum and unlock new opportunities.
From talking to professionals every week, at all levels, I believe they generally want to work hard, feel valued for what they do, understand how their role connects to the organization they work for, and live a good life. They are so driven to continue to add value to the organizations and teams they work for that they often don’t take the time to reflect on their contributions and connect them to where they want to go and what they want to do, which often leads to a career plateau.
They end up on autopilot, going through their days doing the best they can until they realize they’ve plateaued or want something more or different.
This awareness is a great opportunity to pause, reflect, and uncover new opportunities for advancement.
With clients I work with, we start by identifying what they enjoy, what they want more of, and what they don’t enjoy, or what they want less of.
We uncover what success looks like for them, and what they want to feel when they step away from their career at retirement, along with what they’d have regrets about not doing at this intersection. This is an important component, as making change is often scary, and taking steps towards the right thing instead of falling into something that’s going to have them feeling similarly makes a difference.
From there, we take stock of their impact, experience, and leadership so they can reflect on what they’ve achieved (and why it matters), track success stories, and speak about their work with clarity, confidence, and alignment.
Next, we consider how they can stay visible, valuable, and empowered to ask for something more in their current roles or strategize how to look for it elsewhere through avenues like networking.
Without this process, clients are often so disconnected from the incredible impact they’ve had in their careers at this point, from entry level to very senior, that the pause and reflection makes a huge difference and allows one to regroup and determine what advancement looks like for them and how to strategically make it happen.
Clients who do this go from being overwhelmed with too many options to finding clarity and confidence about what they really want. This makes the ask for advancement much easier, and they land in roles they feel aligned with and happier about.
As your mindset, strategy, and momentum coach, I help you get clear on what you want, trust you are worthy of it, and build consistent strategy & action towards it.
Book a strategy call with me today. I’d love to work with on going from overwhelm towards action towards your goals