#What is even SC?#
A Readify Senior Consultant is a leader, a mentor, an architect and a hacker. They foster and nurture the talent and wellbeing of their team while maintaining high levels of discipline and quality on engagements, ensuring successful delivery under sustainable conditions. Equally comfortable in the board room with clients creating a product vision or with their head down hacking through difficult technical problems, Senior Consultants are well rounded problem solvers, and embody the value Readify brings to client engagements.
#What skills differentiate me from my SD bretheren?#
##Consulting##
- Solves people problems
- Has an awareness of peoples motivations and how they can underpin problems.
- Understands that the problems we solve are people problems.
- Can strategise around influencing key people to alleviate both surface problems and root causes.
- Is empathetic to the plight of clients.
##Team leadership##
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Leads from the front
- Always practices what they preach.
- Exemplifies the charicteristics they wish to build in their fellow team members
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Monitors and nurtures the teams wellbeing
- Looks beyond simply delivering with high velocity
- Invests in sustainability
- Shields the team from things that may be a detriment to their wellbeing (and ergo their ability to deliver) or their perception of a given engagement.
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Fosters strong relationships within the team
- This is both between you and your team members, and your team members with each other.
- Why do people want to be on your team?
- What do you do bring to engagements that ensures that team members on them like being there?
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Invests in individuals to help build the value they bring to engagements.
- Looks to ensure people leave gigs they are working on with something they didn't have when they came on
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Has 'the hard' conversations whenever appropriate
- A team member may need to change their behaviour to modify a client perception
- A team member may be struggling with motivation and need a conversation to root out why and what can be done to help
- A team member may not be delivering to the 'readify standard' and need help to build a plan to bring them up to speed.
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Takes ownership of all decisions made on an engagement - the buck stops with you!
##Mentoring##
- "Hands off" mentoriing
- Be able to mentor in a way where you go on a journey with the person with the question to help them discover their own answer.
##Client relationships##
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Able to help build a product vision with the customer based on their business needs
- This goes hand in hand with then being able to execute that vision :)
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Able to confidently make decisions and recommendations
- Be confident in transparently assessing risk and recommending approaches based on this (even if they aren't perfect!)
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Leaves a customer with a clear sense of why they have invested in Readify
##Technical##
##Communications##
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Uses appropriate communication mechanisms
- In circumstances where clarity is critical, nothing beats a face to face conversation
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Maintains frequent, clear, open and transparent communications with all appropriate parties on engagements
- Makes the customer feel safe.
- Can support the business in presales, marketing or whatever other need they have with me.
- People come to me with advice and guidance
- Estimation