When You've Lost Your Way

If you've ever been on a trip and lost your way, you know the disorientation and even fear you have felt until you got your bearings again. Sometimes you can lose your way in your career, too. Perhaps you didn't have a clear goal in the first place; a family or personal crisis caused a detour; or the current economic downturn has forced a change in your career.

Read and check the statements below that are true for you in your current or most recent job:

• I feel reluctant to start projects or push them forward; I'm not interested in making calls or in widening my connections within and outside the organization.
• I sometimes feel a sense of powerlessness, that I'm not making and acting on decisions that matter.
• I don't feel listened to in meetings, and my ideas don't seem valued.
• My daily efforts are mostly predictable, routine, and lack challenge or opportunity for learning.
• My role isn't in the mainstream; it's marginalized.
• I don't feel compensated adequately or proportionately compared with others of similar experience and training.
• I often feel stress or anxiety about my performance.
  
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