What is holding your career back from progress 2?

What is holding your career back from progress? Many people find themselves trapped without any chances of moving forward or sideways. One of the reasons for this situation is lack of flexibility or adaptation to new ideas, technology, concepts, or processes. 

     Companies compete on a global basis in varieties of areas. This is because we have new countries entering into the traditional markets dominated by developed countries. This puts pressure on traditional companies which try to defend their market share. In order to defend their market share, companies computerize their processes in order to be more efficient and reduce costs. They also do this by introducing new business ideas with different business models. Whatever they do for survival alters workers' ways of executing their functions. It is impossible to make changes in organizations without making changes in the workers.

     Although companies offer change management training as a way to prepare workers, some do not adapt to the proposed changes. This occurs mostly to older workers. As a result of their time with company, the management generally keep the workers. Secondly, companies may lose a lot of money by firing them. Instead, younger workers are promoted because they are more flexible or adaptable to anything new. 

     So, if you are not making any progress, you should verify your position with respect to the changes occuring in your Company. How do you embrace these changes? This is one of the reasons for being stuck with your career.

     In the next posts, we will look at other reasons why some people do not make progress in their careers!