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Are you struggling with a professional challenge?
I'm here to help. I've identified the most common professional challenges that people are facing right now. And I'll continue to update this list as new challenges emerge. So no matter what challenge you're facing, there's likely information here to help you out.
With the right tools and information, you can overcome any professional challenge. It won't be easy, but nothing worth having ever is. But with the resources on this website, you'll be well on your way to conquering whatever challenge comes your way.
Start by reading my article on the top professional challenges people are currently facing.

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My goal is to identify the professional challenges we are all going through so that we can face them together and overcome them. Ideally, avoid them.

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  1. What if your manager tells you that he is a numbers guy, not a people guy?
  2. What if your manager does not show up to 75% of the one-on-ones who have booked?
  3. What if your manager does not provide any performance feedback throughout the year but yet provides a negative year-end performance review?
  4. What if your strategy starts appearing in colleagues' roadmaps after they have meetings with you to hear about your roadmap, then they complain that you are copying them? When asked about this, they declare that it has always been part of their roadmap, just not documented.
  5. One of your team members leaves, and there is no backfill, the other leaves, and there is no backfill; you are just expected to pick up the load. The management gets performance bonuses for reducing headcount, you are worked to death, and all requests for recruitment backfill are not honoured.
  6. There is a prison yard-style gang forming at work and the HR manager is in there too. How can you make headway on essential topics when 3/4 of the business are under the spell of a severely toxic individual who is focused on total control and dominance.
  7. What if you were to interview for a position? You have been offered the position. You were doing the job when you received an email informing you that it had been given to someone else? And when you spoke with your manager, he informed you that he preferred a local candidate (white, Christian, local language speaker) over you (immigrant, brown, English-speaking, Muslim).
  8. What if HR replied that since he did not declare your job to the global company, it wasn't actually yours? And we all know how those people are. It's an old boys club.
  9. What if your manager accused you of being a liar?
  10. What if your manager informed you that nobody liked you?
  11. What if your manager labels you as lazy?
  12. What if your manager feels you talk too much on public calls?
  13. What if your manager criticizes your leadership abilities in public?
  14. What if your manager misrepresented your salary before your employment?
  15. What if your manager changed your work responsibilities without your agreement and transferred you into a position for which you did not volunteer, knowing that you would struggle or fail?
  16. What if your manager excludes you from meetings and emails?
  17. What if your manager asks you to join meetings but continues to talk in a different language, even when he knows you are on the call?
  18. What if you went out to other leaders for help, and they informed you that your manager's behaviour is unchangeable?
  19. What if HR tells you there is nothing that can be done about your manager's behavior? I know someone who has experienced this.
  20. What if senior HR tells you it would be best if you resigned? Someone I know was told this.

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