- I have been working in a project management role for nearly a year now, and the overall's team workload has been insignificant as there has been delays from sponsors and senior management in signing off projects
- When I first started, I told my new team I am a master at Excel as most of my team aren't that confident in it: I have developed a reputation now where most of my job is supporting colleagues with their ad hoc requests that take 10 mins to do but I send the answers back to them after a few days.
- I block out time in my diary for “CPD”: this includes me spending time upskilling on my technical skills for future promotions whilst getting paid to do so.
- In meetings, I offer to maintain scheduling and planning documentation: this is fairly easy work but is high profile and means my work gets appreciated, my colleague the same grade as me works much harder but on small tasks which aren't as important
- I volunteer for corporate responsibility tasks: this gives me increased visibility across the organisation and increases management's perception of me
- I have learnt corporate buzzwords that makes me sound more knowledgeable and I can therefore articulate myself to make my current workload sound much higher
- I average 5-10 hours of actual work a week, but have access to my laptop for the rest of the week just in case.
- It's a win win situation as work are happy with my outputs, and I have good work life balance. I have gotten a promotion with a 20% payrise but will establish similar boundaries in this job. I am realistically expecting to work slightly harder, but a max of 20 hours. I believe people should be measured on their output and not the amount of hours worked: I hardly organise meetings as most of my queries can be discussed via email, and any meetings are 20 mins long and to the point.