Professional Issues
- You are not satisfied with your job
- You cannot negotiate a good deal
- Your promotions are slow, and your appraisals are not satisfactory
- With age, you find that your life goals have changed
- You are unable to convince people within and outside your group
- Your presentations are not hard-hitting and effective
- You are unable to make rational decisions and get swayed by emotions
- You treat problems symptomatically and therefore the same problems recur
- You are unable to come up with great ideas
- You need to interact with people form other geographies and do not know the culture or etiquette
Emotional Issues
- Your emotions veer more towards fear, anger, guilt, jealousy, and depression
- You take a long time to become stable after an emotional crisis
- You are distracted and unfocussed
- You are not positive and think or imagine worst case scenarios
- You have been told or you come across as insensitive to other person’s feelings
- You are considered oversensitive to other persons’ opinions and you do not take feedback well
- Your sleep is not satisfactory and your heart races
- You have high blood pressure; you eat compulsively and too much
- You have erratic and unpredictable mood swings
- People believe that you have changed…for the worse
Relationship Issues
- You cannot have a deep relationship with people
- You have problems of trust
- You cannot establish rapport with people
- You cannot read other persons and their emotions
- You cannot predict how people will react to your suggestions or recommendations
- You have no sympathy for time-wasters
- You don’t understand why people do not listen to you
- You cannot tell people the truth in a palatable way
- All your conflicts end either in a shouting match, or sarcasm, or silence
- You are unable to negotiate satisfactorily
- Meetings are unproductive
- You are unable to influence people and events
- You run away from politics
- You believe that people are biased and unfair
- Your group is never a smooth and efficient team
Organisational Issues
- Your contribution is not appreciated and you do not get the results you want
- When you recommend any course of action, no one agrees
- You are not comfortable in the organisation or with its culture
- You are not happy with the changes in the organisation
- You cannot understand why business is not good and why revenues are not increasing
- You do not understand what the focus of your organisation is
- The processes seem very bureaucratic to you
- You cannot appreciate why certain decisions have been made
- You do not understand the organisation power structure
- Your boss does not seem happy with you
- You see no future in the current job