I’ve been thinking about variety and specialism. Right now, I have mixed bag of work on the slate, including:
• Developing the concept for an L&D offering - what IS the USP, why should people get involved?
• Understanding and defining what leadership looks like, specific to the context of one organisation
• Creating a social enterprise's visions and values by listening to employee experiences
• Running a 360 appraisal for how well managers are living behaviours
• Understanding why new starters chose to join their new employer
They all sound very disparate, but they all call on those key insight skills of understanding data and sentiment, and bringing ideas together until they become simpler, more accessible and more usable.
But more importantly, the experience of working on one develops the capability for working on the next. It's that kind of variety that keeps work interesting and fresh. One idea leads to another, one method or thought process is applied to the next work. It makes synapses connect. It makes you a better specialist.
How do you bring variety into your work? And what benefit could you take from getting more?
