Self vs Team’s visibility

Today, I am going to discuss about the self vs team’s visibility.

I hope most of you would have seen this Bollywood movie “Gangaajal”, in one of the scene when the hero of the movie (Ajay Devgan) was getting the president medal because of a successful crackdown in one case.

He refused to take the credit, instead he said that it’s his team who has done this, but, the guy who was giving his medal said”Sainik to kaam karte heen hain, lekin, credit to finally senapati ko heen milta hai, directly ya indirectly”.

I was the firm believer of the above thought, if my team’s work or team members are visible in the system, this means, I am visible by default.

As a leader of your team, it’s your responsibility that you need to make sure that the last line of people in your team should get the due credit and right visibility.

What about you? It’s equally important for you also to be on top everything and to be shown as leading from the front.

Getting things done is not longer seen as adding very much value, because, that is just one part of your role. There are other parts, like adding value, right delegation etc…..

So, how to build the self visibility? Here are a few steps which you should do, I am also trying to to the same:

1. Any collaboration opportunity outside your team, you should lead it.

2. Product ideation, first level of thought should come from you and make sure that’s visible to your boss 🙂.

3. Start giving valuable inputs in any cross team discussion, this will establish you as a thought leader.

4. Start giving internal/external teach talk.

5. Collaborate with the guy in your team who is afraid of doing presentation, this will help him/her in building visibility.

6. Talk, over communicate about self and team’s achievement.

7. Write Blog, organise tech meet-up….

This list is very long, pick the top three and start doing it today.

One of my friend keep quoting this “Career is a hard fought battle, you need to fight very hard”. True, very, very true.

Happy learning…

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