New to consulting. How in tuned should I be on other work streams in my project that I’m not directly responsible for? I’m asking because I was asked to present on some things I wasn’t exactly up to date with and had trouble answering a client question. (Kind of expected the person who worked on it to answer) Its technical stuff too so kind of hard to fake it

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Generally - try and be in the loop, but don’t sweat the details too much.

Early lesson I learned: It’s never wrong to admit you don’t know, and tell your client you’ll get back to them with an answer.

1) It’s true.
2) You never want to get caught faking it.

Covering your teams back is important in this business. Never feel bad if someone answers a question that you were silent on. It happens to the best of us

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