Hi EAs would love some advice here: I feel like I am being given work that should be given to my execs team and that there is no way for me to succeed in this. My exec just assigned me some work and I clarified if it should go to team member, let’s say “Jane Doe” who is a professional at this subject instead of me, the EA, but no they said I should handle. They did pair me up with another team member who possibly could assist me as I basically am using AI…(more in comments)

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If you can’t get out of doing it, make sure you document it for when your review happens. Great example of you going above and beyond, and taking on challenges. You might say something like, “happy to help, I’m not familiar with this task, is there someone I can go to for guidance?”

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What is your official title? What type of work are they giving you? You might be viewed as someone who has the most time to take on the tasks. If you don’t have time then you need to put a list together of all the things you are doing and agree which tasks you will put on the back burner while you take on higher priority tasks. More times than not there isn’t someone who has time to show so you have to figure it out yourself.

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Using AI as I don’t know what I’m doing well enough to execute this item. Am I being set up to fail? Should I talk to exec?

Exec also has me doing some pretty serious automation and coding (which while is a step above usual EA duties, it does better align).

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