Claire Wasserman
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537 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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What is something in the last year that you are particularly proud of? and or you know that it's a win that your boss or your boss's boss would feel good to know that this happened.
And that's why you're not getting paid what they're getting paid. Right. But you should still be getting paid more than what you are making because you have unfortunately fallen into what happens to people who've been at companies for a long time, especially if they started at the lower level, they get those incremental raises, right? Those merit-based raises that are like, I don't know, 2%.
And it doesn't even come up with inflation. And if you started beneath market rate, you will never catch up. This is a reason for the wage gap, okay? So it really, really is critical that you get that bump. But remember, it's not like you are necessarily going from where you used to be to now where this senior person is. Sure.
You just need to get higher within your range and then a plan to continually move up, which we'll talk about in just a minute. So I want to talk to you about this phenomenon of because you're not the only one who has mentioned this to me. I wasn't the decision maker. Like, I know I had impact. You know, I know I contributed, but it wasn't ultimately my decision or my ownership role.
You know, how much quote credit can I take or how do I articulate my contribution in an authentic way while also still honoring the hierarchy that exists? Again, these are good questions to ask, but I think it's pretty straightforward. You literally say that. I mean, you don't have to say, I didn't make any decision, right?
No need to like, you know, take away from what we've done, but it is taking ownership at least over what we had ownership over, right? And by the way, the people on the top or the people who are making those decisions, they are only as good as the people who are running the day-to-day beneath them. Like companies are only as successful as the people who work for them.
I want to say that again, because I think that's very important for us all to remember when we are feeling disempowered. Or by the way, being made to feel disempowered. Companies, products, businesses are only as good as the people who work for them. And that includes you. That includes you. And so anything that you do, there's a domino effect.
It impacts another person or another team who then is able to make the decisions or get the clients or whatever, right? So it's not that you are bragging or not bragging. It's really saying, this was my role in the project, how you did it. what you learned from it, how you made it better, and then the results. Ultimately, And yes, it was a successful ship, but maybe even take it the next step.
What was the global impact of that? So you might say, okay, we got it out the door. Great success. Here was the response. And if you could try to find all the ways there was a response, whether it was number of downloads, the reviews, right? So you can get kind of qualitative here too. So it's not just lots of people loved it, but like, what did they say? Maybe there was press. And then maybe...
all that got leveraged for something else. I don't know. I mean, this could be some investigative work here, but was there more investment that came in? Were you able to land another client or sponsor or partner? Did the CEO get to speak at a conference? Did they talk about this product that got shipped?
Nothing happens really in a vacuum, which we can sometimes feel that it does if we are in a more sort of bureaucratic environment, that sort of cog on the wheel experience. And you've got to see how, again, even if you feel small or are made to feel small, there is a ripple effect, or as I said, a domino effect. And it is on you to chart that and to tell that in a concise and compelling way.
And none of that is mutually exclusive with the fact that you are still on the more junior side. You can be junior and still have ownership over your domain. So before I continue to ramble and then talk about how to propel this, how to kind of leverage it for propelling us forward, any thoughts or feelings on all of that?
And yeah, By the way, the very act of doing that will, well, first of all, make you feel more confident because you're like, well, hold on. I did all that. Okay. Okay. But also it makes you look really good. It makes you look like a leader. It makes you look self-aware. And it also makes you look really empathetic to the business needs, which brings me to my next point, which
If you want to move forward, by the way, is there opportunity to move forward in this company? Yeah. Okay. And do you have an interest in continuing on the path that you currently are in or maybe exploring other departments?
Or yeah, talk to me a little bit about either things that you have felt about how you could move up or maybe you've witnessed another colleague making some kind of pivot within the company. I'm curious. Give me more context if you don't mind.
And by the way, we're not changing right now. All we're doing is exploring.
I'm going to give you some next steps for information that you can gather. I think a lot of people get very stressed when they think about the prospect of change. They get stressed for a lot of reasons. But one of the reasons that we get stressed, it's because we actually lack information about how to make that change. So the change itself isn't even daunting. It's really just the process.
And you don't even know what the process is unless you gather some information. first. So there's kind of what you know and what you don't know. So let's talk about what you know and what you know is yourself to a certain degree, to a certain degree. So these are the things I'd love for you to reflect on. And if you have any thoughts, feel free to share.
What are the things that when you do them, you really light up, really light up. And of course it makes it easier if it's work related, but just think kind of generally you as a The things you do, you light up. And what is so interesting about exploring those experiences is you can see, ah, what's the environment that helps me do the work that makes me light up?
What are the strengths and skills that I'm using to make me light up? What are the problems that I'm solving that make me light up? Now, I don't think this is you, but I think there's some other people watching or listening who are thinking, it's been a while since I've lit up. I'm just very unmotivated and not into what I'm doing. That's when I would say go back way in time to childhood.
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