Playing to your strengths

• You sense a gap between your skills and new requirements.
• How clear are you about your strengths?
• Are you letting yourself get weighed down by thinking about what you can't do instead of focusing on what you can do?
• How clear are you about the new requirements?
• Who are your key internal customers or stakeholders?
• What specific new needs do they have?
• How could you adjust your role to better meet their needs?
• What new skills could you develop?
• Is it just a skill gap or is the new culture not to your liking?
• Are you out of sync with some other aspect of the new direction?
• What adjustments can you make to fit in better?
• How might the situation be an opportunity for you?
• Which of the following options would best help you move forward?
• Self-analysis, stock taking, deciding whether to move on.
• Seizing new opportunities presented by the change even if it entails a degree of risk.
• Consider the first option if you feel totally at odds with the change.
• Aviod too much introspection - can undermine confidence further.
• Consider rising to the challenge of the new opportunities presented by the changes - action can be self-fuelling and motivating and you can always revert to soul-searching later if things don't go as planned.