How To Rebuild Your Reputation

Today I have a very special topic I'll be talking about, and today I will be talking about recovering your reputation.

It's really about when you lose a label that they've attached to you and you regain your standing within the organization.

It's not easy. Let me tell you, I have been there.

I remember working on a project a long time ago. It was in the early days of working on a project.

It was a big change project where we were looking to bring about a new system that was going to impact people on their jobs. 

People might lose their jobs, that sort of thing.

And I hadn't gotten the confidence I needed at the time to take on such a role.

I had the skills, but not the confidence.

I wasn't usually assertive enough.

I would go into meetings and I would find that the stakeholder who I was supposed to be navigating and driving to a solution was pushing back big time.

I mean, jobs were being lost, so there were some serious pushback and emotions involved, and I couldn't handle it.

I couldn't get my message across.

And very quickly, I started to come across as someone who was incapable of doing the job.

Now, the reality is that none of us is perfect.

Making mistakes or getting things wrong is just a part of life and part of the learning process.