Take ten minutes. Answer honestly.
See which patterns show up.
Then choose one thing you want to do differently over the next 30 days.
The Career Trap Self-Assessment Handbook has 18 questions • Helps you unveil 6 career patterns
There comes a point in many successful careers when the usual signs of progress stop telling the whole story.
On paper, things may be going well. You have experience behind you. People trust your judgement. You have built expertise that has taken years to develop.
But perhaps the opportunities coming your way are starting to look a little too familiar.
Perhaps you have become the person everyone relies on, but that also means you are spending most of your time doing what you already know how to do.
Perhaps you have progressed exactly as you hoped you would, but lately you have found yourself wondering: Do I actually want the next logical step?
Or maybe nothing is particularly wrong. You simply know that you don’t want the next ten years of your career to look exactly like the last ten.
Before you update your CV, take another course or start looking for another role, this may be a more useful place to begin.
The Competence Trap. What happens when being the person who can always deliver means you keep accumulating responsibility for today’s work, while having very little room to prepare for tomorrow’s?
The Identity Trap. Your career has evolved while your reputation continues to bring you opportunities based on what you have done before.
The Expertise Trap. The expertise you worked hard to build may also be narrowing what you consider possible.
The Network Trap. You know good people. But do you know the right people for where you want to go next?
The Achievement Trap. You know how to progress but the harder question is whether you still want the destination.
The Relevance Trap. Industries change. Technology changes. Expectations change. The question is whether you are continuing to evolve alongside the environment in which that experience needs to create value.
