Most peoples’ careers never go in a straight upward path. Sometimes, employees can get stuck for awhile on a plateau, perhaps because they have had some setbacks. What do you do, especially in those critical phases of your career, when you have the feeling that you are no longer moving forward?
“It’s a question of attitude as to how you handle such situations,” comments Reinhild Furstenberg, founder and director of the career counselling company Furstenberg Institut in Munich, Germany. What this entails, she says, is to be clear in your mind what your goal is at that moment. “The task of someone who is ill is to get well again.”
