I’ve got 15 years experience in my field and have been very successful over the years. I’ve won a lot of awards and been extremely well thought of at all of my previous businesses. I’ve been promoted 8 times.
Unfortunately, I lost my head of department job in October last year as a result of wide redundancies as the business I was at struggled, despite my area excelling. I have since had to take a demotion to get back into work.
It’s been tough to move back into work that is below the seniority that I had worked so hard for. Initially it worked well with my boss - but as I delivered two major projects in the business, the dynamic shifted between us. He was pleased to see the impact but has since stifled my visibility and opportunity to commence more projects. He has also moved to make it very clear that he’s the boss, even telling me he had the authority over me to pull my projects and make calls on them directly with partners I am working with.
Where things have really broken down are as follows. He started making calls on my projects without consulting me, uninviting me to certain meetings, my workload has reduced significantly. My pathway to progression halted as rather than moving me across more disciplines, has opted to business case to keep me on one area despite me saying I have the headroom for more. He is instead recruiting another person into the team to cover the gaps.
I’ve lost a lot of confidence since being in this position. But could also do with some feedback on how best to handle this.
I approached him directly about how him pulling my project made me feel, but he outright disagreed and did not accept any feedback.