Beth

Career Field: Emergency Management

Years of Experience: 20

My Career Challenge: I was being constantly undermined by my manager and was at the point of quitting my job altogether. My morale was at an all-time low and my confidence in my abilities was eroding. I felt the need to quit my job, so I contacted Ellen for help.

How Coaching Helped: Through implementing Ellen’s recommendations and techniques, as well as completing key exercises and assignments, I not only recognized and avoided old thought patterns, I effectively stopped others who were undermining my attempts to grow and advance. She also helped restore much of my confidence and motivated me to become more visible with top executives, many of whom were advocates of mine. At one point during our coaching, I told Ellen I had received a poor (and highly inaccurate) performance evaluation from my manager, which would become permanent record. Ellen helped me shift my thinking from letting it “just be” and coached me on taking charge of the situation. I succeeded at refuting my manager’s claims and changing my record so that my performance was evaluated fairly and reflected the high marks I deserved.

Outcome: In less than one year, I went from wanting to leave my job out of desperation, to being promoted to a management position that included a 45% raise. And my value keeps going up considerably in the eyes of those top executives she encouraged me to network with. Thank you, Ellen! Your insights, guidance, and coaching were invaluable to my career growth.

“While I initially contacted Traverse to explore how I could leave a destructive work situation and ‘repackage myself,’ I left each session empowered to actively change my toxic work environment for the better.”  - Beth