I'm coming from a role where I was the SME and had consultant-level responsibility. I've been on my current project for 2 months and have done nothing but update decks. What do I do?

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You find a replacement, find another project that wants you, and fly away 🍃

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KPMG 1 - analyst hoping to be consultant soon. Have been with the company 15 months. Updating slides doesn't get you a promotion to consultant.

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Depends on the updates you’re doing. Are you resetting status based on being told what to put in? Or are you updating storylines, rewriting taglines/takeaway statements. The first is a basic task and the lesson to learn is contextualizing the status. The second is executive communication and shaping the deliverable for consumption by an audience. Learn from the content that’s there. There’s really 3 pillars to our work. Defining the problem, decomposing a problem for analysis and synthesis, and communicating the conclusions in compelling way. Updating decks, assuming your not doing the analysis, is the 3rd pillar. Critical and people suck at it because they dismiss it as simply updating decks.

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SME at analyst level? Doubt...

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Update decks?

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