From the course: The Career Transition Playbook for Leaders

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Navigate the unknown

Navigate the unknown

- As a business leader, you get paid to have the answers and deliver results, which is why the transition period between career opportunities can be challenging. You are standing at a threshold where you're leaving something behind to get to a new place. You're no longer the person you were, but you're not the person you're becoming, yet. And this liminal space between engagements can be full of uncertainty. In this lesson, I'll show you how to embrace the uncertainty of transition and flourish in the ambiguity of change. I learned a lot about liminal space when I left a long corporate career to start my own business. And even though there was so much busyness and excitement around my new venture, the impact of the identity shift was unexpected. The process was a complete transformation, and if you look at nature, a great metaphor for professional transformation is when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. When it's time for a caterpillar to transform, it hangs upside down from a branch…

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