Should I Push To Make My Interim Leadership Role Permanent?

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

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

She’s taken a number of chances in her career and made some big pivots. Now, she’s been assigned to a senior role on an interim basis, but she’s not sure whether she should try to make the role permanent. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches her through the decision-making process to better understand what’s holding her back and the future she envisions for herself.

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0:00.0	I'm Ariel Wilkins and this is Coaching Real Leaders, part of the HBR Podcast Network.
0:12.2	I'm a longtime executive coach who works with highly successful leaders who've hit a bump in the road.
0:17.7	My job is to help them get over that bump by clarifying their goals and figuring out a way to reach them
0:23.5	so that hopefully they can lead with a little more ease.
0:26.9	I typically work with clients over the course of several months,
0:30.1	but on this show, we have a one-time coaching meeting
0:32.6	focusing on a specific leadership challenge they're facing.
0:45.4	Today's guest is someone will call Anna to protect her confidentiality.
0:51.1	She's been in her current industry for less than 10 years after making a notable career pivot.
0:58.2	I'd sort of been doing boutiquey work and sort of non-corporate, you know, really small scale,
0:59.9	small business scale work.
1:05.2	But I'd had a lot of exposure to working with people and other businesses and other industries that were in these pretty large, interesting structures.
1:08.6	And what I wanted to do is work in a central service
1:11.2	and watch a whole lot of people do their jobs
1:13.6	and figure out which one I wanted.
1:16.4	I started on a temporary contract as an administrator
1:19.0	and have sort of worked my way up.
1:21.0	And it's happened really, really quickly.
1:22.3	Like I really found a discipline that I loved and hit my stride.
1:26.7	You know, I spend my weekends and evenings listening to podcasts about it.
1:32.7	And I just, it's been a, I've been a real duck toward it.
1:36.1	Anna had a lot of success in this new field relatively quickly.
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