Reclaiming Your Career During A Pandemic

Many of us are interested in reclaiming our careers so joining me on the podcast today is Anna Oakes. The intersection of her love for humanity and her love and understanding of corporate is what she’s going to share with us today. She’s not talking about something that she’s read about, or something that she saw on TV, or an article that she read in an airplane magazine while she was on a flight. What she’s bringing today is what she knows because she has walked it and talked it. In this episode she tells you how to visualize what your next best step is, how you move from where you are to where you want to be, and most importantly, how reclaiming your career lights you on fire.

In this episode we discussed:

How COVID has affected our spirits, family and work dynamics
How to determine what you should keep doing and what you should change
Why now is the perfect time for organizations to change
How we’ve lost control of our own careers
How the pandemic has changed the way we view work
How we can reclaim ownership, direction, energy for our careers?
The number one cause of burnout right now in the world of work
How to bridge the gap between self awareness and self advocacy
The difference between being managed and being led

What is the Passion Patchwork?

“I’m going to give myself permission to build a passion patchwork, that fits me with the passions and the hobbies, and the friends and the family and the job and the side projects or the side hustles or whatever you want to call it, it’s your quilt. They can be whatever textures, whatever colors you want. And guess what? When one no longer serves you, you can remove that square, and swap it out with a different one. That’s the bridge between moving from self-awareness to self-advocacy, in starting to feel how good it feels when you’re in alignment with who you are and you’re taking action.”

Who is Anna Oakes?

Anna Oakes is a consultant, coach and caretaker of humanity. She combines her love for humanity with her 20+years of corporate experience and over 4 years as an entrepreneur, as a leader, coach and strategic business advisor. Anna and her team is currently focusing their work on INTRApreneurs, those change makers/innovators who choose to work within organizations.

She’s currently writing a book to help INTRApreneurs maximize their impact in their role and organization, while helping organizations lead and leverage this valuable resource well. Anna gave her first TEDx in April of 2019 to help you leverage your current role to get to your best next.

You can catch her on social media, their team site and her weekly podcast, Build High Performing Teams.