Trust Your Voice

When we spend time working for large institutions, we potentially find ourselves adopting the company rhetoric. We risk trading our unique voice for the company line to fit in.

Sometimes the company line resonates with our own perspective. The company line is helpful to collect and direct collaborators who are working towards a similar vision, built on shared values.

As an individual it pays to check in with ourselves from time to time, to re-evaluate if our personal vision still aligns with the company line.

Checking in with ourselves can be costly. We may discover our path is diverging from the institutional one. We may be tempted to ignore this divergence in favour of security and certainty.

Institutions are generally slow to change. It takes time to explore, re-evaluate and recalibrate the vision and values of a large group of people.

Individuals can move fast. When the call comes to move in a new direction, we have a choice to make a change today.

The tension between personal and institutional directions can be the energy to slingshot us into the next season of life.