How Do I Move Forward from a Career Setback?

Coaching Real Leaders

Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

Executive, Business/careers, Leadership, Careers, Business/management, Sessions, Hbr, Coaching, Review, Society & Culture, C-suite, Leaders, Harvard, Business, Management

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

He experienced early success and a fast promotion at his organization, but then things started to shift. Now, there have been leadership changes, and his scope of responsibilities has changed, making him feel like his career is backsliding. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches him through how he can reframe the situation and prioritize what he wants from his career going forward.

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0:00.0	Imagine a state where you can get from big cities to big nature in less than half an hour, with some of the best quality of life in the nation.
0:09.0	Welcome to Minnesota, America's least stressed state.
0:12.7	Learn more at exploreminnesota.com slash live. I'm Ariel Wilkins, and this is Coaching Real Leaders, part of the HBR podcast network.
0:30.6	I'm a longtime executive coach who works with highly successful leaders who've hit a bump in the road.
0:36.7	My job is to help them get over that bump by clarifying their goals and figuring out a way to reach them,
0:41.8	so that hopefully they can lead with a little more ease.
0:45.2	I typically work with clients over the course of several months,
0:48.2	but on this show, we have a one-time coaching meeting focusing on a specific leadership challenge they're facing.
1:01.1	Thank you. time coaching meeting focusing on a specific leadership challenge they're facing. Today's guest is someone will call Jeff to protect his confidentiality.
1:05.6	Jeff started his career path working in various business roles, but would leave the jobs
1:10.0	after some time.
1:11.7	I felt like I was reaching a point of stagnating. And also I was going through the motions a bit.
1:17.6	There was a situation where I was passed over for promotion and taking over like the team.
1:22.8	Looking up the chain, I didn't really see much upside for me.
1:26.8	So I just felt like I needed to do something
1:28.3	to make a change because I think I've had tendency maybe to just stay in places for too long.
1:33.7	He then went on to get his MBA and used that to transition his career into a new industry.
1:39.6	I was sort of interested in the more dynamic nature of the industry. The industry that I was previously
1:45.4	in was much more mature, so things were much more steady state. Now, I was also interested
1:51.0	generally sort of in the, just the general interest in the field. So one of the reasons why I went to
1:57.2	pursue my MBA was to try to facilitate that transition a little bit easier. And so I kind of zero down on a couple of potential industries that I wanted to pursue my MBA was to try to facilitate that transition a little bit easier.
2:01.6	And so I kind of zero down on a couple of potential industries that I wanted to pursue.
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