Consultants - what do you think your manager does all day?

Managers - what do you actually do all day?

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Nothing lol coming from a new manager 😂

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I’m just a pretty face.

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Senior Manager here.
I spend a lot of time on engagements: follow up/reviewing deliverables/answering question/managing stakeholders (internal and external)

Also quite a lot of time on sales activities.

And admin - so much admin! I’m hired from industry and I can’t believe how inefficient everything is!
So many solid automation business cases if it wasn’t for the fact that work hours are free (as just expected to put on top on billable work) and a negligence to value that you need idle time to come up with the best solutions…

But ehm yeah… I guess that’s the name of the game

SM here too - all this and also RFPs, client presentations and meetings you might not know about. If I look at one of even my strongest seniors, they’re probably only working on/fully aware of <10% of what I’m doing. A lot of us also publish and present at external events which takes a lot prep and often travel. And again for good measure-so much admin. The volume of emails alone is insane.

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