"Disrupting" Your Career

Finding a Rewarding Career Path

You may need to step sideways to find the career that's right for you.

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Halle has been an HR manager for four years. She's become unhappy in her role, however, because she rarely gets to do what she's best at.

Her greatest strength is her creativity. She often comes up with ideas to improve the organization's processes, but her ideas rarely get heard, because they're not the main focus of her job.

She cares deeply about her organization, but she feels she'd be able to make more of a difference if she were in another role. The problem is that she doesn't know what that role is.

You may empathize with Halle's situation. If you're in the right organization but the wrong role, you don't have the chance to use your strengths, and you can't provide as much value as you want to.

This is where "self-disruption" (an unhelpful term) is useful, because it helps you identify your strengths and take a new direction in your career. In this article, we'll explore self-disruption, and we'll discuss how you can apply it for yourself.

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