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  Are You Valuable and Visible? Being good at your job and being seen as ready for the bigger role are not the same thing. That gap explains a lot of career frustration. Some professionals create tremendous value but remain almost invisible outside their immediate team or function. Others become highly visible but the substance behind that visibility is thin. Neither position is sustainable. Career progression usually requires both: VALUE - The quality of contribution you make. And. VISIBILITY - The extent to which the right people understand that contribution. The interesting part is that these create four very different career situations. That’s a 2X2 matrix and you know how Consultants love their 2X2’s (been a change consultant for over 2 decades so 2X2s are inescapable) HIGH VALUE + LOW VISIBILITY You are trusted by the people closest to you, but senior decision-makers may not fully understand what you contribute. You become the organisation’s best-kept secret. HIGH VISIBILITY ...

  Your title & role has changed but your leadership operating system hasn’t. Sometimes the problem is not your title. It is the level at which you are still operating. A bigger role does not automatically create a higher leadership mindset in You. It is possible to be promoted... but continue solving problems, making decisions and adding value exactly as you did before. And that is where leadership begins to stall. Here are 5 signs you may be leading one level below your role: 1. You are still too involved in execution. You are solving problems your team should increasingly be solving. You haven’t prepared them or not ready to let go. 2. Delegation feels like loss of control. You assign tasks, but important decisions still return to you. Your delegation has not evolved. 3. You think primarily from your function outward. Your perspective is strong within your area, but weaker across the wider organisation. Your ‘big picture’ is still small and restricted to your f...