Understand & overcome fears, challenges & crisis-management, crisis as a chance for a new start, strategies of crisis prevention
Simone Janson (ed.)
Published by Best of HR - Berufebilder.de®
Do you know that? “Yes, I would very, very much like to change my job! But if I am looking for a new job, it should of course also be my dream job. I have some good ideas - but unfortunately they're all too big to be implemented. Unfortunately I have to stay where I am. A pity."
Some people have big professional dreams, and that's very good. One would like to be a test pilot, the next development worker, another would like to run his own company.
Not all professional projects are accessible to everyone - some dream jobs are almost impossible due to certain factors such as age or physical fitness. Others require years of construction work or commitment that can not be achieved at the moment.
Nevertheless, such a great professional goal can be helpful in any case: Either I find out what interests me so much, and try to find another, more easily realizable activity, which aims in a similar direction.
Or I look at my dream as a long-range goal and concentrate on the first steps in this direction. So far, so constructively.
But it is also different: I can use a career as an argument, so that I do not have to move from the spot. As if I were very hungry, would now like to eat pancakes, but unfortunately they are not on the menu.
So I prefer to eat nothing with a growling stomach and rave about how delicious pancakes are now - not a sensible strategy.
I call such a mechanism an if-trap: By making my actions dependent on a certain condition that will not happen with great certainty, I avoid being active and perhaps realizing the second best idea.
So I have a "good excuse" for myself and others for staying hungry and dissatisfied. For example, if I have been employed as an accountant for years and my job is hanging around, I have to support a family and dream of working as an independent organic farmer, this idea will hardly be able to be implemented quickly.
It would be constructive to look at it as a long-term goal and to prepare myself for it by means of further education, research and networking in order to make the transition possible in a few years.
This course would of course require a high degree of perseverance and frustration tolerance. I would have to endure my unloved job for a while, and my reward would be far away and not 100% secure.
On the other hand, I would have the chance one day to do what I really want. With the completely-or-not-at-all strategy, I make it easier for myself in the first place, by giving my wish the stamp “impracticable” and thus putting it in the trash.
At any suitable opportunity, I'll get him out, dream or tell others how nice it would be if ... I explain (to myself and others) that I would rather give up my dead horse today than tomorrow - the only real alternative, alas not feasible.
And maybe most people nod then and confirm that this really does not work. I always leave some pressure inside. For reveling in beautiful dreams makes the gray Joballtag slightly easier to bear for a while - like a cinema film that lets me forget the reality for two hours.
Such a wonderful idea! But nothing changes. In doing so, I am using this strategy as a stone in the way, which could lead me to many other, perhaps somewhat smaller but still good solutions.
Do you have a Traumberuf or a nice big professional idea that you consider to be unattainable and use as an argument to hold onto your current job?
Managing Crises - when Life Suddenly Changes
1st edition, 16.03.2020
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There were 13.354 corporate insolvencies in Germany until May 2009, and the trend is rising. But even if the fear of bankruptcy is great: “Failure is also an opportunity - if you learn from the mistakes” - says someone who has gone through all stages of bankruptcy and is still successful today.
1992 had started well in Krefeld: Joachim Niering had noticed that there was a need for porcelain repairs, but hardly any companies that offered this service, let alone an appropriate training. The qualified pedagogue therefore provided founders with the commercial and technical know-how to repair porcelain, thus enabling them to set up their own business - as a franchisor. He brought the technical understanding from his time as a game device developer, the necessary capital came from his private assets.
Today the fifty-two-year-old says that this was probably his first mistake. “I had been warned that 500.000 marks was not enough capital. But I thought my idea was so good that I laughed at it. ” Now he knows: “Even the best ideas need a lead time before the brand is established - and that costs a lot of money!”
His company also flourished for a few years: Niering gave his knowledge, the franchisees their license fees monthly. Then what happened to franchise systems without a strong brand often happened: the licensees made themselves independent. "They simply lacked a sense of the network concept," says Niering and admits himself today, "Trust is good, control is better!"
They were followed by judicial battles, and suddenly the fee was lost. Niering filed an insolvency petition for the first time and reorganized the company with the help of an insolvency plan. This was expensive and meant to save money, continue the company, and also take in personal loans and bring them into the company.
After a four-year dry spell, the rescue plan was fulfilled - that was 200The entrepreneur believed that he could rebuild the successful franchise system and failed again: “I held on to an idea that previously worked, instead of daring to try something new and only that Repeats mistakes, ”says Niering self-critically. The company went bankrupt and the entrepreneur fell ill.
But Niering seems almost relieved at the end: "At some point you have to realistically admit that you can no longer do it." Even self-laceration has no meaning for him: The cardinal error that many desperately seek in this situation does not exist for Niering, rather there are various causes. However, he considers it essential to look for an external consultant as an entrepreneur: “For example, I would have needed someone to show me my weaknesses in personnel management in good time. You don't always see something like that yourself. ”
Because of the liabilities still arising from the restructuring, the ex-entrepreneur finally had to register for private bankruptcy: he had nothing left, temporarily lived in a student apartment. But Niering didn't give up. “You have to make it clear that bankruptcy is an economic, but not a human breakdown and must not affect your whole life. The important thing is to start over, ”he says - and has done it: Niering passes on his experience as a consultant for companies and private individuals:“ All of the clients I look after are still successful on the market today and are leading a normal life again, ”he reports proud.
Hildegard Allemand, specialist lawyer for insolvency law in Cologne, also confirms that bankruptcy cannot be the end, but a new beginning: "Enforcement measures by creditors are then no longer possible and, under certain circumstances, an operation can be continued without being burdened by the old liabilities." However, there must be enough assets left to open insolvency proceedings to at least cover the costs of the proceedings.
In the case of sole proprietors, the procedure can also be initiated by deferring the procedural costs. The insolvency procedure is followed by the residual debt relief procedure, which brings about the deleveraging. "This is a relief," explains the lawyer, "because the warnings and calls from the creditors, the debt collection agencies and the visits of the bailiff are finally ending. However, those affected have to pay their attachable income for six years; there is always an obligation to work and provide information. After six years, the residual debt relief is then granted by court order.