Read the Room with Laurie J. Wetzel
The conversation about your career continues when you leave.
What do people take from your experience? What gets repeated? And what never reaches the people who decide?
Short episodes and candid conversations about the way work gets understood.
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Choose a place to start.
Your experience is hard to explain
“The experience is there. It just isn’t readable.”
Start here when your record is stronger than the description of it.
Strong performance has become a ceiling
“The trap is not that you are underperforming.”
For the moment when doing more of the same no longer seems to change the conversation.
You expect the record to speak for itself
“Nobody ever looks back.”
A short episode to consider alongside your next career conversation.
You are thinking about a senior move
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A longer conversation about senior opportunities.
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Your next step
Take the question into your own work.
The Two-Sentence Career Check helps you compare what people already say about you with what you want understood.
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