Maya an emerging Woman Leader.

Maya has been working for ABC firm for the past 3 years, she has joined it after a long stint of 10 years of her previous firm,with more than a decade of experience in her field ,Maya had no qualms working for a role and title that did not totally befits her overall experience and competence, as on today Maya’s only objective is to stay busy and has gone more quite than before all the time just engrossed in work.

Her past continues to stay present in her mind and behaviour,on account of which, many a times she find herself repeating the same best practices she has been following for several years , sometimes she also recommend it to several others in the team as a point of sharing best practices.

Present day today, even after three years of non stop work,Maya has not been able to find her place in the organization ,while she is subconsciously aware of the void present inside her and manifested in subtle ways in her work , she continues to hold the emotional mask of “everything is fine” all the time .

Performance Appraisals

After the periodic Performance appraisals, the results were as usual and regular with no major change in her role or compensation, however the feedback was not something she expected, and was taken aback by the new supervisor who made no attempts to mitigate it while delivering it to her.

After the appraisal meeting with her supervisor, Maya remained aloof and stuck-in a loop of thoughts, filling her with frustration and anger

She said to herself –regardless of how much I tried, why is it that I could not make out – What merit such a feedback ?

She believed she was doing more than what was expected including her best practices, why then?

It was during such a deeply frustrating phase I happened to meet Maya.

During our work together this is what we found

• The void and emotional distress Maya had been masking had its root in her past work experience
• Despite the number of years of experience Maya never fully believed in her own potential and had undermined her ability to lead, which kept her confine to small roles and teams with the same repeated behavioural patterns.
• The piled-up frustration has begun to show signs of anxiety and pushed Maya into a spiral of deep chronic stress.

Journey of Self -The Coaching Program

Our work together took Maya on a deep journey, that made her peel layers of her past through scientific tools that not only made easy for her but brought in a new awareness to her limiting beliefs that kept her stuck for years in small roles undermining her potential.

To overcome hard core belief’s one needs to first find the root cause of its construct

Our work revolved around it ,and therefore I consider it a deep work which calls for commitment of time and courage

Time – as you need to be patient with yourself as it unfolds from the clutches of past

Courage – to be able to meet those parts of yourself you never knew existed and are also the root cause of the present issue.

The most interesting find of this entire assignment was Maya’s ability to understand her inability to navigate power dynamics in her previous work experiences, associating it with all kinds of titles and concepts, like a culture misfit, a toxic boss and a stagnated career except what was the real or a fact.

The reality – was the inability to read the environment in the right perspective and understand the context behind it.

The result– Maya despite being a high performer, was feeling stuck and unable to progress in her career.

If you just like Maya have decided to take charge of your career to prevent any further stagnation, you can connect here

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Mehnaz Amjad | Coach
Hyderabad, India