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Looking for options for a mid career pivot. I have worked on transformation programmes and very closely with change colleagues and in internal comms. I have really enjoyed working in transformation. However most of my career has been corporate comms.
How easy would it be to make the pivot into change management if I got Prosci certified?
Would recruiters take me seriously, how would I go about it and what is the London market like?

I have to work closely with a specialist team within my organisation on communications for a leader. They can be nice but at times speak and treat me me like I’m an idiot child! Or if they are feelingstressy will send very short slightly snotty emails, saying ‘as per xyz’ or ‘come and see me’ I am a 40 somethjng female comms professional who is good at my job! I obviously don’t live and breathe these people’s roles and I’m quite new to my businesses’ industry so they clearly know more. That doesn’t mean they’ve got a higher IQ though! How do you deal with this? I am very polite as they are important stakeholders!

How do I deal with this. Oh and I do realise it is YOU’RE stupid!! Struggled to edit title. It’s been a long week and realise I’m not really helping my cause!!

A few years ago I had a really awful experience in CS. Long story short, I was new to grade, offered no support in incredibly difficult circumstances and thrown under a bus by senior leaders when a principal was unhappy with the wider team.

My leaders told me at the time this decision was unfair and it wasn’t my fault but they couldn’t do anything about it.

I had always done really well in CS up until this point and had been steadily promoted and had great reviews.

There was no warning from any of my leaders that anything was wrong, nor was I offered any opportunity to put things right. Instead I was told a few weeks into working with a new principal that they didn’t like my work and they didn’t want me doing that job and that was that.

I do think it’s possible they had someone in mind for my job or were seeing work that wasn’t mine and it was being wrongly attributed to me by their office to cover backs (the office was also struggling with the principal). Although it is also quite possible lack of experience of working with them meant I wasn’t quite hitting the note. My work was of good quality, though, with no errors and I took real pride in it. I am sure given a few more weeks I would have nailed it.

This made things pretty difficult for me to navigate for some time - the rest of the team seemed to think I’d done something wrong and I struggled to get back on the right track career-wise. I ended up working in quite random areas - which while all valuable and useful now, looked quite piecemeal to CS eyes and this made it hard to advance. I think it meant interviewers wrongly saw red flags, so it was difficult to get traction. And this was not helped by my lack of confidence. I was told regularly by my leaders that I was lucky not to have been chucked on the redeployment list and reminded - on one occasion publicly - how I was a cost etc.

I’m now in a new role outside CS and doing really well. I actually feel more upset with the way I was treated. I can see I AM good at my job and was undervalued and treated quite badly. What happened to me in CS is not how people get treated in my new org - even though in some ways it is a tougher employer. It feels like it was so completely unprofessional.

I know an awful lot worse could have happened and in private sector if a principal took against me - I would probably have lost my job. But I am honestly really still struggling to process what happened with an employer that supposedly holds itself to such high standards.

I would love at some point (not now) to come back but am worried about more of the same. I am generally very resilient but I also set high standards for myself so this really knocked me for six. Has anyone else experienced similar and managed to get over it and advance? What were your tactics! Sorry for long post!

I really want to take my daughter for a weekend adventure when the weather is nice this summer. I know statistically it’s highly unlikely something will happen.

However I can’t get out of my head those horrid incidents of the little girl who was dragged from her tent by an evil man some years ago and the boy who was attacked in Scotland last Summer.

I’m not sure men will totally get this fear as it is completely irrational. However it is knowing that even though there are very few men like this, there are some men who see women and children as prey and are waiting for the opportunity. I know if we go, I’ll probably sit up all night.

Is there some kind of security device/ hack we could use that would at least block the entrance? We would camp at a site - so I’m less worried about someone slashing the side of the tent - as i am sure that would attract attention.