Identity and leadership change
Questions for who you’re becoming
New title, new city, new role. On paper it is a step up, so nobody thinks to ask how you are doing. Meanwhile the instincts that got you here have stopped working, the people who used to be peers talk to you differently, and you are spending energy being a version of yourself you have not agreed to yet.
These questions are not a plan and they are not advice. They are for the distance between the role you hold and the person holding it.
How to use this
Take one. Not all eight. These work better written down than thought about — thinking about them tends to produce the answer you would give in an interview. Writing tends to produce the other one.
What did you have to become to get this, and do you still want to be that?
Who talks to you differently now?
And which of those changes do you actually mind?What are you performing that you did not have to perform before?
Which of your instincts stopped working?
Most people can name the moment they noticed. Start there.What did you leave behind that you have not grieved, because it looked like a promotion?
What would you do differently if nobody who knew the earlier version of you were watching?
Who are you when you are not in the role?
A year from now, what would tell you this was the right change?
If sitting with these raised more than it settled, that is usually a sign it is worth talking through.
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