Life lessons from a vacuum cleaner: follow this four-step process to get unstuck and move towards your goals

Herbert the Roomba was stuck “near a cliff”; frozen so he wouldn't fall to his doom.?

He sent out a distress signal to his owner.?

The owner discovered that Herbert had mounted a doormat.?

Sometimes, we can be a bit like Herbert.

What we think is an insurmountable peak, or a deadly drop, is actually just a little hop (or, a series of little hops).?

I know you have seen it: Contract Managers who remain Contract Managers for 10 years (and a lot more in some cases!). A skilled and experienced Revenue Manager who just can’t work out how to make the jump to cluster, or regional. The Director of Sales who never seems to make DOSM.?

For those who want to keep climbing the ladder, this is a tough industry. The org chart is generally a steep pyramid, with fewer and fewer opportunities to move upwards. Depending on which sector you’re in, more jobs are taken by technology and automated (the new kind of product manager is taking over from the old kind of product manager).?

On top of that, personal development is not a priority, meaning that your boss doesn’t have the time or the tools to help you move up.?

When this goes on for too long, you can start to lose confidence in yourself, wonder if you’re not cut out for this business after all, or simply give up.?

I bet you aren’t sure what your next move should be… am I right??

So many of us fell into this industry because we love travel, and people, and the magic of hospitality. But we can’t fall upwards into senior positions in the same way, which leaves us feeling stuck, confused, and scared of taking a big leap.?

Let’s take another leaf out of Herbert’s book, and be even more Roomba.?

Click here to read the four-step process to get unstuck and take the next step.

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This post from Max Starkov pushed my buttons this week.

I fully agree with him that we need to address gender inequality (especially at senior levels) in travel tech companies, but we have rather different ideas about how to get there.

What do you think? Who is responsible for addressing inequality?