How to climb the career mountain and not lose your footing

Oxygen tanks and sherpas. Blisters and stunning views. The endless cycle of one foot in front of another. My husband and I recently went mountain climbing. And didn’t experience any of these.

But we did go to a place we’ve never been before.

And saw sights we’d never seen.

You may have heard of where we went.

Table Mountain.

Not the one in South Africa’s Cape Town but the one in The Netherlands.

Reader, I am proud to say that we climbed to the very top.

All 47 steps.

We got a kick out of counting the steps.

In life, we all have our own mountains to climb.

And mountains can look different to us depending on whether we’re 5 months, 5 years or 5 decades old.

One person’s mole hill can be another person’s mountain.

It depends, doesn’t it?

This is what I find when I work with my clients on developing their communication skills.

Where they work on getting better at listening, public speaking, and raising their visibility and value.

And become better leaders and team members in the process.

Some of them are climbing mountains that look scary and make them feel alone – maybe being on a stage in front of hundreds of staring eyes.

Some are wanting to climb their mountain with more ease and grace – to go and talk at that panel without nerves ruining their week before the event.

And some are wanting to climb a mountain that is appearing every week on their schedule – it could be ‘that’ meeting that they know they need to raise their visibility at.

What mountain are you looking to currently climb in your career?

How much easier would it be doing that with more confident communication skills?

When can you build in time to work on that and start enjoying the benefits this will bring you?