Are You in the Right Position?

By Soozy G. Miller, CPRW, CDCC, CDP

I had a call with a C-Suite client. She felt really frustrated.

She is a compliance executive, and an expert in her field. Her natural behavior style is that of a business driver. She’s a natural problem solver. She loves being given a difficult and complex problem and fixing it for the long term. In this capacity she is a natural leader.

And yet at her job people keep asking her to “tamp it down.”

Her company had been bought by another, and her new bosses didn’t like her dominant style. It was unclear whether or not this was due to her being a woman, but it had gotten so bad that she had come close to going to Human Resources a few times.

I got her back on the right track, and she entertained positions that suit her better, but she is not alone in her predicament and frustration. There are many executives out there in the wrong job.

I spoke to an IT Chief who was hired to solve one problem, and then they renewed his contract and sent him to monitor another problem in another division. Monitoring is not his forte—solving big problems is—so he is miserable.

I also worked with a senior data analyst who was frustrated because she wanted an executive / leadership position, but she couldn’t seem to get past the first interview anywhere. This is because her natural strength is not analysis, it’s relationship building. So, she was constantly giving the wrong impression during interviews, and not realizing why.

Putting leadership in the right position is incredibly important. Companies continue to feel the effects of The Great Resignation in 2021, when 50 million people quit their jobs because they didn’t like the work culture, and they didn’t like their leadership. The work culture is set from the top down; leadership always sets the tone.

If you’re working in a position and you feel frustrated, uncomfortable, emotionally stunted, unappreciated, or you’re watching the clock all day until it’s time to go, that is affecting everyone else in your life. Perhaps you’re in the wrong position.

We can fix that.

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Better job. More pay. More control.

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