A Guide on Articulating Your Contributions as a Senior Leader
When you work as an individual contributor, all your achievements and accomplishments are easy to talk about—products you built, bugs you solved, designs you developed, or the ideas that created a huge impact. You can showcase your value by highlighting the goals and outcomes you achieved independently or how your collaboration enabled a smooth cross-team rollout.
However, this gets tricky as you rise up the ladder and become a leader. You’re no longer writing code, debugging issues, or working on architecture design. You are not directly involved in day-to-day execution of tasks or solving problems on the ground. You set the direction, guide your team, and enable them to achieve goals while operating from a 10,000 feet view of your organization.
You set the targets, while others achieve them.
You define the strategy, while others execute on it.
You lay out the expectations, while others work hard to exceed them.
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