How Can I Move Forward When My Company Won’t Promote Me?
Summary
Executive coach Muriel Wilkins guides Erica, a healthcare leader stalled in her C-suite ambitions, through her career dilemma. Erica struggles with loyalty, comfort, and guilt over leaving her long-time organization for an external role requiring temporary relocation. Through coaching, she shifts from paralysis to prioritizing happiness, embracing discomfort as growth, and making incremental decisions rather than overanalyzing future outcomes.
Topics discussed
Intro, Evolve immersion, and Lincoln Tech ad
Episode intro and Erica's career background
Erica's leadership blocks and current dilemma
Clarifying the decision: Stay, go, or retire?
Decision to leave and embracing discomfort
Ads for Cozy Earth and Alma therapy
Analyzing the source of Erica's discomfort
Guilt, selfishness, and prioritizing happiness
Setting timelines and accepting uncertainty
Ads for NetSuite and Stamps.com
Reframing career choices and avoiding domino thinking
Defining internal and external conditions for change
Outro, community info, and Scribe ad
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