PRosé with special guest Darcy Eikenberg author of Red Cape Rescue
Do you feel like you are in a job that isn’t the right fit, or that’s not advancing your career? Darcy Eikenberg is the author of "Red Cape Rescue: Save Your Career Without Leaving Your Job,” in which she gives advice on how to regain control in today’s workplace, making your career what you want it to be, (without exiting the workforce or quitting your job). Eikenberg has been an executive coach to leaders at organizations such as The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, State Farm, Deloitte Consulting, and more. She spoke with PRosé about what people can change at their jobs to make work better, and about the current “great resignation” that has people leaving the traditional workforce in droves.
“There’s somebody out there who needs us, that’s what inspires me and keeps me going.” Eikenberg says. As someone who has built her career around helping people navigate changes in the workplace, and changes in their lives, she says humans all have something in common, and that is the need to feel needed. “Human beings want to know what we are doing matters, and we want to know that we are taking care of the things that are important to us,” she says.
Many of today’s workers weathered the recession a decade ago that saw a great deal of job loss, however, the way it was talked about was different then. “What’s shifting now,” says Eikenberg, “is that people are talking about it more openly. The whole idea of job change, or even questioning ‘am I doing the right thing for me?’ was a little more sheltered back in the last recession. Because a lot of people lost jobs, if you weren’t happy in your job, you were fed the conventional wisdom that ‘you should be happy to just have a job,’ you know, ‘shut up and just deal.’
Eikenberg is encouraged by more people thinking today about what they really want from their work. But she does worry about the current “great resignation” saying, “I want to encourage people to do the work for themselves and not just leap into trends because it seems like everyone is doing it. There are lots of opportunities that times of change bring, that we can take advantage of now.”
Listen to the PRosé podcast to hear Eikenberg’s list of the top 5 reasons you might be unhappy at your job, and how to overcome them. Some big ones: you are telling yourself the wrong story; you are losing a battle with your brain, you aren’t asking for what you need, and more.
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