So why is it important to really nurture and grow your career in the long run, and why is this consistency really important for you and your career? 🤔💼
To answer this question, let's look at things from the perspective of a manager. This will explain the decision-making process to figure out who gets a high-profile BA assignment.
Let’s say you're a manager, and you need to send someone overseas to lead a discovery workshop for a new client. Or there’s a vacancy for a Lead BA on one of the projects, and you need to fill it with a good match. Both are very honorable assignments.
And in both cases, if you are a manager, you will be looking for someone predictable, someone reliable, someone you may lean on. An individual who you're sure will do the job, so you as a manager will not have to interfere or worry that something goes wrong.
And therefore, you’ll be first looking for people inside your organization who have already done similar work before, and perhaps not once. Someone who has led discovery workshops in the past, someone who has led BA teams before.
You will be looking for consistency in delivering the good results that you’re expecting.
It's this ability to maintain high results over a significant period of time, is a true differentiator. It allows you to be seen as a reliable and predictably exceptional BA by a lot of people in your organization.
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