175: How to Know When to Move On
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
You’ve been in the job for awhile. You’re maybe not feeling that same sense of motivation or fulfillment that you once did. How do you know when to move on? In this episode, five indicators that will help you answer that question.
1. When it’s beyond a bad day, week, or month.
- “Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.” -Julius Erving
2. When its not fulfilling anymore to solve problems.
- I mentioned Michael Hyatt’s appearance on episode #40.
- “Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.” -David Ogilvy
- Every organization has the well-connected people who are marketing a bad “product” or at least a mediocre one.
- Are you solving problems, or are you window dressing?
3. When you’re living in Groundhog Day.
- You can become the cynic who says, “This is the way we do things around here.”
4. When you think the same way today that you did a year ago.
- You should, on occasion, be able to look back on a decision you made in the past, or on your thinking on something, and be amazed at how stupid you were.
5. When your heart tells you that its time.
- It’s OK to not know the answer for awhile. In fact, that’s probably the side to error on.
A final thought: this isn’t the answer. It’s a place to start asking yourself the questions.
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| 0:00.0 | You've been in the job for a while. Maybe you're not feeling that same sense of motivation or fulfillment that you once did. |
| 0:07.6 | How do you know when it's time to move on? |
| 0:11.1 | This is coachingaching for Leaders, episode 175. |
| 0:15.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:20.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your |
| 0:28.8 | host Dave Stahoviac. This is a weekly show to help leaders improve their communication, strategy, coaching, |
| 0:37.0 | productivity, and personal mastery. And today, a question many of us have struggled with at one point or another |
| 0:47.8 | in our careers and inevitably people in our community are asking this question right now. |
| 0:54.1 | How do we know when it's time to move on? |
| 0:56.2 | And so this is a question that really looks at our own career strategy and mastery for our |
| 1:02.1 | careers and what's the right decision for ourselves and |
| 1:06.2 | our organization. |
| 1:07.7 | Now, before I go into the details here of the five things that I think you can consider when asking yourself this |
| 1:17.0 | question. |
| 1:18.0 | I should say here up front that of course I don't know the answer to the question of should you move on and is it the right time. |
| 1:24.8 | I'm not even sure I've confidently know the answer to that question of times that I face that |
| 1:31.6 | question ten years ago if you asked me today, you know, 10, 11, 12 years ago, |
| 1:37.8 | was it time to move on and when I did and didn't, if that was the right answer at the time, I'm |
| 1:42.1 | still not sure I made the right |
| 1:44.5 | call in every situation so this is a complex question my intention today here on |
| 1:51.0 | the show is to is to not answer the question but to give you a framework to start |
| 1:57.4 | thinking about the questions that you may ask yourself to come to your own answer. |
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