Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

SHOW NOTES:

We’re often told, and believe: “What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There.” But that’s dangerous and often misguided! In this short episode of 97% Effective, Executive Coach Michael Wenderoth challenges the conventional wisdom that what got you to your current position won't help you progress further in your career. He discusses the importance of tapping into one's past experiences and successes to overcome work-related challenges and make significant career advancements. People, he reveals, often overlook their strengths and past achievements, which can be crucial in navigating work transitions and achieving career goals. Through four client examples – Dan, Jasmine, Rhonda and Keshav – Wenderoth shows how revisiting past strategies and strengths enabled each to break through career stagnation or obstacles. You’ll see how one's past experiences and successes hold valuable lessons and strategies that can be repurposed to meet current challenges and opportunities for growth. By the end of this episode, you’ll be rethinking the traditional advice -- and leave with 3 steps to more powerfully “Tap Your Past” to better navigate your career.

• The Misconception of “What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There” and how it gets dangerously misapplied.
• Don’t suppress or disregard past strengths, habits, sources of success – but do the opposite.
• TAP YOUR PAST: the counterintuitive process that helps you creatively “mine gold” that will power you forward through new challenges.
• How we get “stuck” at work, when our roles or situations change.
• Whole person coaching recognizes that clients are naturally creative and resourceful.
• Client example #1: Accelerating his network in his new company -- how Dan, bank director, resurrected his bold and proactive approach.
• Don't immediately kill off what has served you.
• Client example #2: Overcoming her shyness to be seen and and heard on the leadership team -- How Jasmine, finance leader, applied strategies she used when moving to a new country.
• Find similar situations in your past life or work to identify what helped you through them.
• Client example #3: Being told “you’re too young – you need more years in your current role” -- How Rhonda, sales director at a tech giant, applied her sales skills to overcome her company’s culture to only promote those with seniority.
• Apply your work expertise to better manage your career.
• Client example #4: From avoiding to embracing office politics -- How Keshav, VP at Light & Wonder, re-examined and reframed the problem.
• Get a new perspective by looking how you or your team solves similar challenges on work problems.
• To advance, examine and draw creative insights from your past habits, past life situations, past expertise.
• The 3 steps and powerful questions to “Tap Your Past.”

BIO AND LINKS:

Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).

• Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelchangwenderoth/
• NEW: 97% Effective, now on Youtube! https://tinyurl.com/bdz53mc5
• “The client is naturally creative and resourceful” – The Columbia University 3CP Coaching model: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/coachingcertification/faq/
• Keshav Pitani, VP of Light & Wonder, on 97% Effective: Overcoming Your Aversion to Office Politics” https://tinyurl.com/3mjxvbws
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://changwenderoth.com/#tve-jump-180481ecea3
• Michael on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcwenderoth
• Michael on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wenderoth.michael/