Pat's bad news was hard to swallow...
Pat heard through the grapevine that he was negative and didn’t take direction well. After some soul searching he realized that he had unwittingly been undermining his efforts to land his dream role. And he decided to do something about it.
When we first spoke he didn’t know how to change his attitude or his reputation. We made an inventory of all the actions and comments that he felt contributed to a work situation.