Research highlights that executives are in for surprises while in transition. While only 45% of my clients were surprised by the decision that led to their leaving their organizations there were other surprises that were more widely experienced by the group as they made their ways to their next roles. In research conducted in 2016, […]
Career Transition Research
Losing a Job and Other Losses
New research shows losing a job can impact a person in a variety of ways. What else do you lose when you lose your job? In the world of sports, decisions to release or demote players are usually made due to a change in philosophy or direction or because the team is in a slump. […]
A Confluence of Events
What role does luck and timing play in a career? Clements United’s research with executives who have experienced transition shows it is greater than they thought! One of the truths that has been confirmed time and again during the 16+ years I have been working with executives in transition is that people with very good […]
The Trade Deadline
North American professional sports have trade deadlines. The media is vigilant. Athletes live through a difficult period of uncertainty as teams evaluate their needs against their short and long term plans. Management is under scrutiny and decisions need to be made. Trade deadlines create anxiety for the athletes and their families, management and the owners. […]
How Did I Get Here?!
While most of us start out with the belief that our careers will follow a certain path, for almost all there will be time when despite our best efforts and planning there are dead ends and sometimes, crashes. David Byrne of The Talking Heads summed it up well! The ability to control our destiny from […]
Empathy and Career Transition
While familiarity is said to breed contempt, can it also breed empathy? Recent research conducted by Clements United shows this to be the case with career transition. Having invested over 14 years working with well over 500 executives in transition, I had arrived at some conclusions based solely on experience versus having empirical support, so […]
Human Being Versus Human Capital?
When an individual enters into transition, she or he wants to be treated as one. Just ask! A search for a reference to the term “human capital” yielded, “Human capital is substitutable, but not transferable like land, labor or fixed capital.” For me, this raises the question, “where does that leave an executive who has […]
Attitudes towards Career Transition
If faced with the loss of your role today, how would you view the transition? Would you see it as an opportunity, as a challenge, as a threat, as a rite of passage or a combination of two or more of these? Experience shows attitudes and beliefs must be managed. Life is full of surprises, and […]
It’s Not Always a Smooth Ride
Just ask the cyclists competing in the Tour de France. Races are won and lost. Teams’ needs change. Competitors move on: sometimes of their own volition and sometimes not. With the summer upon us the Tour de France is underway. The professional cyclists have been training for years. Over the past year, teams have been […]
Crossing the Pyrenees at Night
In the book, “Killing a Mouse on Sunday” the Basque protagonist set out to sneak back into Franco’s Spain by crossing the Pyrenees on a cloudy night without using a torch. When the moonlight was obscured he found himself alone, and stuck in total darkness. There are times when we may feel a long way […]