How to promote the camp?

“I’m not sure how I’m going to progress here, and no one has really bothered to tell me.” I hear this sentence many times in career coaching conversations with very talented people who join a new organization, come with all the good intentions and desire, and after a few months break down.
Energy drops, motivation fades, and the desired job drifts to completely different places. It doesn’t meet expectations. The resume comes out of the drawer and the journey to find the next job that will “jump my career” begins again. But is this the only way to advance, I ask? The immediate instinctive answer is yes!

They (the organization, the bosses…) are unclear about my development here. I have no horizon. It’s time to move on.
OK. So is this the only way? I insist again, and ask for a second to stop before the automatic response. The new thinking that arises here is what is my responsibility for my career. After all, I want to succeed, I keep a big head for myself, I aim high, I am willing to do a lot to show that I am a great worker. But when and why did I remove responsibility for developing and advancing my career from myself? When did I become passive in this matter, waiting for something to happen?

Not every organization has an organized mechanism that deals with career development and the managerial horizon of employees. So, when something is missing, do I simply step aside, give up, or look for solutions? If I don’t have the next goal in my career, I can create it, propose it, influence it! After all, for any other professional problem you would find a solution because that’s the job…and for yourself?

Career coaching process

In N’s career coaching process, after taking a broader look at his previous choice to be passive and debating whether to leave a good job that was ultimately suitable in many ways, N. decided to change his approach and act on two levels. One is a deep examination of what could really be possible so that he could make progress, who he should talk to, what ideas he could offer, what skills he could use to take the next step. And the second level is to work on his own public relations in the workplace.
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