Identifying Where Your Power Lies At Work
Return to work programme: Sometimes you have to abandon other people’s programmes and implement your own. One of the benefits of entrepreneurship is that I can design my own schedule. One of the dis-benefits is that I can still be at the mercy of others agenda. Therefore today’s programme involved the rewrite of Ten, TEN (!) blogs consecutively…
And they are done.
Who’s Return To Work Programme?
This challenges some of my preconceptions regarding the ‘freedoms’ of self-employment versus the rule-bound nature of employment within another’s business or organisation. Within this organisational work, there is usually the potential to squirrel oneself away and honour your own programme. Conversely, I heard one colleague call self-employment ” that role where you have thousands of bosses instead of just the one” every client being your boss in a different way.
But I think that might be what inspires me about being entrepreneurial. Whilst I might indeed be at the behest of many different bosses, each behest or requirement or relationship is different. It is the diversity of the multitude of programmes that I encounter that thrills.
I love the spontaneous ‘in the moment’ feeling of navigating a new coaching relationship. I adore hearing of another therapist’s caseload and holding that between us until we have teased out all the threads. I am nourished by learning about the culture of the business that needs good leadership. I even enjoy dipping my toe in the waters of marketing, with the caveat that this is collegiate had humorous! Oh and that there is cake…
“maybe true autonomy lies in my choice as to how to respond.”
So whilst I am indeed beholden to a thousand different programmes, maybe true autonomy lies in my choice as to how to respond. And maybe that’s all we ever have. In business, we are often powerless over what needs doing, and we are powerless over other people, but we do have power over our responses and choices and actions….
Nobody else’s programme is ever going to work for you in its entirety.
Perhaps the trick is to take what you need and to leave the rest. Maybe you don’t need to resort to an (unpaid?) internship to return to work programme. Design your programme your way.
You can find Rebecca here at the Daemon Career Coach