<p>1. You start talking in tongues with phrases like "stewardship" and "servant leadership."</p>
<p>2. You begin to number all steps in all processes.</p>
<p>3. Your phone stops ringing.</p>
<p>4. You´re asked to facilitate meetings but never contribute content.</p>
<p>5. There isn´t anyone outside of your department at vice presidential level who recognizes you.</p>
<p>6. You find yourself quite often putting on coffee and ordering refreshments.</p>
<p>7. You receive a ton of advertising every week from the Society for Human Resource Management.</p>
<p>8. Training firm representatives make up the bulk of your external voice mail messages.</p>
<p>9. No one holds career development or performance evaluation meetings with you.</p>
<p>10. You find yourself telling people why they can´t do something much more often than how they can do something.</p>
<p>11. People around you quote Peter Senge and have never heard of Peter Drucker.</p>
<p>13. Not one external consultant hired wants to collaborate with you.</p>
<p>14. You think it´s important to get published in Training Magazine.</p>
<p>15. The only professional development the company will subsidize for you is the national ASTD conference.</p>
<p>16. You work in a cubicle.</p>
<p>17. Management is seen as the enemy.</p>
<p>18. You believe the sales force is vastly over-rated and grossly over-paid.</p>
<p>19. Instead of a raise, the company grants you a title such as Senior OD Transformational Consultant.</p>
<p>20. Your friends from college are driving better cars.</p>
<p>21. You are distressed to realize that you can´t name one human resources executive who has become CEO of a major company.</p>
<p>22. You find yourself in debates as to the merits of classroom vs. theater seating.</p>
<p>23. You think that Don Kirkpatrick´s four levels of measurement are the state of the art in terms of metrics.</p>
<p>24. You have certifications and requisite initials after your name from four different training vendors, having gone through their train-the-trainer programs.</p>
<p>25. You have books such as <i>Games Trainers Play</i> and <i>Training Icebreakers</i> on your shelf.</p>
<p>26. You gently inquire among vendor representatives about job opportunities and what it´s like to be "on the outside."</p>
<p>27. You have no budget, or at least none that you can control.</p>
<p>28. No one has ever asked your opinion about a corporate strategic initiative.</p>
<p>29. You are bored at least once a day.</p>
<p>30. At least twice a month you peruse the "help wanted" ads.</p>
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<p>Alan Weiss is an OD consultant for Fortune 500 organizations, a very popular keynote speaker, and the author of 25 books published in 7 languages. He serves on several boards, including The Harvard University Center for Mental Health and the Media. You can reach him via his web site, <a href="http://www.summitconsulting.com">http://www.summitconsulting.com</a>. His newest book, <i>The Million Dollar Consulting<sup>TM</sup> Toolkit,</i> was released by John Wiley in October. He is a contributing author among an all-star list for the new book <i>Practicing Organization Development</i> (Pfeiffer: 2005).</p>
