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1. You will break yourself down over time if you try to appease all the (often conflicting) opinions of the Partners / MDPs on your team (and there will be many). Align on swimlanes early, and stay closely aligned with the executing partner on the project
2. Set weekly feedback meetings with your junior team members and give them the development opportunities that they expressed that they wanted at the start of the project
3. You will feel like you don’t have clue what’s going on despite it being your job to steer the ship. It’s normal and part of the process. Develop your hypothesis for the answer in Week 1, test with your internal team, and refine continuously over time. Having a North Star to charge towards is critical
4. Manage internal meetings with tight control - have an agenda for what you need input on from your Partners/MDPs, ruthlessly bring focus back to that agenda to get what you need if the topic goes off track
5. Act as a player and coach for your junior team. If it’s their first time leading a workshop, speak up/chime in more to show them what good looks like, and gradually take steps back as they ramp up. It can be demoralizing to have too much responsibility too quickly without an example to follow
6. Don’t let the process take precedent over progress. You may feel overwhelmed trying to schedule all of the client touch points, workshops, Steercos, and align calendars of 50+ stakeholders. However, you have complete agency to revise/change that cadence as needed if you feel that a meeting will be unproductive. You should be driving to the answer, not coming up with content for the sake of a meeting just because it’s been scheduled.
And other points I may be forgetting but welcome others to chime in as well
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If you don’t want to stay until partner, leave once you make it to that level.
That’s fair - and my advice really depends on what you’re optimizing for. But in terms of exit opps, early tenure EM is best for leaving. In terms of learning, senior EM is the latest I’d leave if you’re not staying in consulting/a sales-oriented professional services role
Roll with it