Set a New Direction

• Returning from cross-cultural work?
• A young adult just starting out?
• A person in mid-life malaise?
• A new immigrant just arriving?
• Looking for an exit strategy from your present work situation?
• Looking to make your present work situation better?

People, Change, Potential. It captures the journey we’re all on.

Societies are globalizing. Globalization means intense and dynamic change. All change – even good change – involves loss. We might not think about it much - but we certainly feel the effects of so much change in the world.

Over the past two decades, individuals and businesses everywhere in the world have been forced to deal with the increasing diversity and change that comes with globalization. It effects our individual lives and our work teams. Some effects:

• Fragmented personalities
• Feeling torn and empty at a core personal level - yet sensing something deep down inside calling out for attention
• Job insecurity
• Stress, alienation and limiting bottlenecks in the workplace

We are transitioning more often in today's world.

I help people transition.

Often our transition relates to the world of work.

Work is where individual, physical, mental, spiritual, and bottom lines intersect. Work is a key social context. Over 50% of our entire lives are spent inside work organizations. However it hasn’t always been a validating, positive experience.

“To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible punishment so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character. Fyodor Dostoevsky (died in 1881).

“The routinized worker is discouraged from using his own independent judgment; his decision making is in accordance with strict rules handed down by others. He becomes alienated from his intellectual capacities, work becomes an enforced activity”. C Wright Mills (died in 1962)

Just a Cog

cog = carbon based unit
cog = drone
cog = instrumentally connected
cog = interchangeable part to be swapped out
cog = checking the personality at the door
cog = beleaguered misfit
cog = unhappy automaton
cog = being less than who you are

It can be better. But we need to Set a New Direction as individuals and work teams.

It’s time to bring the Personality back in. And Purpose. And Meaning.

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