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Take charge of your job.
Executives and managers turn personal and organizational churn into opportunity as they deepen their awareness, clarify priorities, explore options, and engage to take purposeful action. They step forward to initiate and actively examine themselves and the organizational system to become better architects of their own development, make prudent business and leadership decisions, and become a role model for others. Development by chance is too passive and ineffective in a constantly changing environment. Rethinking Work partners with managers and executives to thoughtfully transition and become more genuinely enthusiastic and productive.
Through Rethinking Work executives and managers:
- Uncover new and meaningful direction
- Identify and map out timely strategy
- Discover their current values and give voice to them
- Reduce overwhelm and align themselves with priorities
- Set a leadership example
- Reinvigorate their spirit and inspire others
- Build on past developments and make fresh worthwhile contributions
The Rethinking Work® Coaching Process Includes:
Pre-session interviews and feedback report and discussion
Set of 75-minute sessions depending upon needs
Customized assignments
Consultation between sessions for support and guidance
Rethinking Work Outcomes:
These vary and include restructuring one’s current position to align with personal growth and organizational needs; creating a new position within the organization; taking on increased leadership responsibilities in a thoughtful and systematic way; moving out of the organization based on personal examination and organizational exploration. Every executive and manager deepens their self-knowledge, sharpens their focus, and acts with clearer values and increased self-confidence.
Client Examples
Healthcare Organization – Jordan, director of human resources: “One of the strengths I thought I brought to my position was fresh perspective, an outsider’s view. I’m not an outsider anymore. I want to still deliver a fresh perspective, but am fearful I am getting desensitized, and, heaven forbid, actually defensive at times! The only way I can think of describing what I desire in work is to ‘crank it up a notch’ in my current position. I want to be engaged and effective, not allowing as many situations to affect my morale and bring me down. If I’m going to remain in this role, I have to find a balance between listening to others’ views and making decisions that not everyone will like, and be okay with that.”
Financial Firm – Geoffrey, corporate attorney: “I’m feeling pushed by my own career ponderings and yearnings. I want less stress, caused by wondering how I might apply more of my passion and intellect at work. Sometimes I blame my boss for not recognizing my growth. Doesn’t she see how I’m able to strategize and handle multiple projects? My goal is to take responsibility for growing with and adding value to this company as I stay true to myself. My challenge is to dig through my experience, uncover the talents that I really want to use, put my desires into terms that build my confidence and communicate to my boss how I could be of greater service to the department and company.”
Publishing Firm – Melissa, director of new business development: “A friend of mine used to say that when she got stuck trying to decide what to do, she went to sleep. When she woke up she knew what to do. This tactic, so far, hasn’t worked for me. I want to feel a sense of pride in my work. I want to know something that is of use to someone, and not feel like my work is ‘selling’ something I don’t understand or care about. A few of my colleagues are leaving this firm to start a software company and they have asked me to join them as a partner. I have a few months to decide. Most of my life I’ve focused on how to keep my job. Now, I’d like you to help me to make a purposeful decision. I want to better understand my strengths and how to apply them in my current job, and then I can make a wiser decision.”
RETHINKING WORK FOR YOU AND YOUR ORGANIZATION
Contact Cliff Hakim: cliff@rethinkingwork.com or 617.661.1250 to discuss your specific situation. Fee paid by the organization.
Cliff will challenge you, ask you to think, and expect you to dedicate significant time and energy to your exploration. However, he sticks
with you, helping you focus on your strengths, listen to your inner desires, and draw on your core values.
Gordon MacFarland
Chief Operating Officer
Ceres Investors & Environmentalists
for Sustainable Prosperity