Season of Career

Season of Career

What season of career are you experiencing now?

  • Spring? Starting out, seeking to prove yourself and find your way?
  • Summer? Growth, opportunity, feeling you’re in full swing?
  • Autumn? Losing momentum, lacking motivation?
  • Winter? Stagnant, outside in the cold?

The seasons can happen at any time in your career - or in any role – they don’t relate to age.

The seasons relate to your engagement – the combination of factors that inspire you to be in your element and feel satisfied in your achievements.

What's important for you now?

What do you need from this season of career?

  • Maybe the alignment of a sense of purpose and learning?
  • A great team and an enabling culture?
  • Expansive accountabilities and a free rein?

Great if you’re in a thriving stage and have (most of) what you seek.

But what can you do if you aren’t?

Shifting Seasons

Here I’m borrowing from marketing concepts: product extension and brand extension.

Extend your product.

To shift the season, you can:

  • Tweak your product offering. Extend your remit within your current team by taking on new opportunities. ?
  • Switch teams. Colleagues know your skills, you could use them in their teams – opening up further learning.
  • Switch companies. Move into a different culture, a new geography, with diverse growth opportunities.

Extend your brand.

Here you are bringing your existing equity and reputation to a new field.

You are shifting career.

You are still drawing on existing competencies, capabilities and traits – just in service of a different audience and to a different end.

  • From investment banker to non-profit fundraiser, entrepreneur, or private equity
  • From VP Finance to academia or consultancy
  • From CMO to executive coach


You can always move seasons.




Andrea Stone is an Executive Coach and Educator, working with global leaders and their teams to create greater self-defined success.


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? Andrea Stone, Stone Leadership

Mike Clarke

Chief Human Resources Officer - CHRO

3 个月

Thanks ?? for sharing Andea … I liked it a lot. I feel it’s a wonderful opportunity to “see our teams” … too much many winters .. will get cold… balance & diversity is vital. In the same manner … seasons on our planet ?? have a purpose… and normally an annual cycle ( … let’s all do our bit to keep our planet this way..!). Quarterly outlook “ like the seasons” on our team is vital to grow performance and grow talent. Age … agreed “ nothing to do with it “ .. but I would say this ??.. Looking forward to my next summer season on stage !! Thanks ?? Mike

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Eng. Amina Khalifa PCC, EQCC, EQ Leadership Consultant, NLP, Hogan

Regional Lead Trainer/Senior L&D Consultant @HNI | EQ Ambassador & Leadership Consultant @Six Seconds | Professional Certified Coach PCC @ICF Supporting Leaders Unlock Their Potential with EQ????

3 个月

Love thos idea about seasons thank you for sharing Andrea Stone I love spring and although automn is seen as lack of morivation it can also be the time where we shed the leaves that are not serving us by maybe unlearning sometimes. The essence is to acknowledge that our lives follows the cycle of seasons and its ok!

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Dr. Mohamed Tawfik, Doc.Mgt(c), MPhil, MBA, CMCM, PharmPGD

The inventor of the GIDC model | Marketing and Sales Director of Dawa Najd | Advisory Board Member of IASTEM Academy | Speaker | Sustainability Ambassador | Pharmacist | Featured on Business Insider & CEO Weekly

3 个月

Well said! Andrea Stone

Maqsood Mehdi (CGEIT / PMP/ ITIL 4)

Senior Data/Application Engineer. Vice President-II.

3 个月

Love this idea of career seasons. It really shows how our careers are always changing. Whether we're growing, changing, or reflecting, it’s important to understand where we are. As someone in the middle of my career, I find myself in a mix of summer and autumn—doing well in some areas, but looking for new ways to stay motivated. It’s a good reminder that no season lasts forever, and there’s always room to grow and evolve.

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