Your Questions! Getting Iced Out At Work, Career Drift & Are You Even On The Right Ladder? #74

We’re back after a mini hiatus, answering your questions.

First up, is there a growing trend of senior people being iced out at work until they eventually resign rather than being made redundant?

We look at why companies might do it, the complexity of Australia’s industrial relations system, why good employee protections can still become overly complicated, and why some senior leaders would rather slowly exclude someone than have an honest and difficult conversation.

More importantly, how do you know when it’s happening to you?

We break down three places to look for the warning signs: below you, beside you and above you. Are your team hiding information? Have your peers stopped asking for your opinion? Are senior leaders making important decisions without you?

Because sometimes you don’t need to be told you’re being iced out. The behaviour around you is already telling you.

Then we tackle a brilliant question, what do you do when your career has no direction because you haven’t taken responsibility for it?

Our answer is somewhere different.

Before asking how to take control of your career, work out what you actually want from it.

What does work mean to you? How important is ambition? What are you good at? What kind of life are you trying to build? And perhaps most importantly, are you even on the right ladder?

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to reach the top. There’s also nothing wrong with deciding work simply funds the life you actually care about.

The problem is never making the decision at all.

In Short:

Getting iced out at work Australian IR Difficult conversations Career drift Ambition Finding direction Figuring out whether you’re climbing the right ladder in the first place.

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