By the time women get to executive level in their corporate life, their confidence should be at its peak, right? But perhaps you’ve found the opposite. Perhaps you’ve:
- suffered a collapse in confidence out of the blue
- lost all sense of direction and ambition overnight
- blamed yourself for situations outside your control
- struggled to feel compassion for yourself, and instead felt furious
- worked ever harder while getting nowhere and screaming inside to ‘please stop’.
You are not alone. It sounds extreme, but it’s more common than you think.
Through their research with over 120 executive women, and their personal and professional experiences, authors Vanessa Venning and Marianne Perkovic discovered a strange and common phenomenon. Women who had been rock solid in their confidence found themselves in a pivotal moment in their career. Corporate or personal pressures became unbearable. Their confidence plummeted. And these women felt crippled by the experience.
In Pivotal Career Moments Venning and Perkovic reveal the truth about:
- the nature of ‘pivotal career moments’ and why women experience them
- the top three confidence derailers and how to spot them before they get you
- finding your support crew on the path to recovery
- using their evidence-based Think Beyond model to restore calm and clarity, create a new future and commit to it
- restoring your social and corporate contribution on new terms.
Venning and Perkovic have created an insightful, warm , firm and uplifting guide for executive women facing a pivotal career moment. You will learn from other women how to spot the warning signs of a confidence snowball. Most importantly, you will discover how to unashamedly apply self-compassion and evidence-based strategies in the Think Beyond model to navigate this moment to a successful future.