{"id":4649,"date":"2020-08-23T20:37:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T00:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2020-08-23T20:37:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T00:37:26","slug":"casual-leadership-w-room-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/2020\/08\/23\/casual-leadership-w-room-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual Leadership w Room to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"

To address personal relationships within the organization, I do believe there is a good amount of influence people in less traditional leadership positions have over those in managerial roles due to the familiarity\u00a0 between coworkers at the firm. Outside of the workplace many of the employees are friends and hang out\u00a0 after office hours\u00a0 so these relationships\u00a0 inform the levels of trust and understanding between co workers regardless of titles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I believe followers have very transparent relationships with their higher ups-\u00a0 for example it is very common place for a project manager to ask an analyst for help on something especially when the subject matter is more complex. Because of that, and the team structure of all of the projects, decisions are made similarly- in teams with everyone\u2019s voice being heard. There is\u00a0 definitely hierarchy and your project managers have final say, but input from all coworkers is considered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Work is assigned in a pretty decentralized way, however there are very frequent check ins and big picture goals that your project managers assign as the project progresses. For example, I had to come up with a list of firms operating in\u00a0 the\u00a0 quantum tech industry in Canada to build a model, but I was never told when to start it or when it was due. I did the work on my own time and let my\u00a0 PM know when it was complete and she was able to check it and offer pointers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The majority\u00a0 of feedback is completed in a reflection document you create when a project is completed which helps with evaluations, however to better leader\/follower relations I think it\u00a0 would be beneficial to have a more casual check in halfway through the project to make sure everything is operating on track and nothing could be immediately improved upon. Overall, I\u2019d say the leadership is a lot less structured than other management consulting firms I explored as possible summer opportunities which works really well for me, personally, however\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if the lack of structure is something I\u2019d appreciate long term. I do think it gives a lot of opportunities for entry level analysts\u00a0 to learn quickly and get\u00a0 exposed to higher level skills\u00a0 very early on in their careers. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To address personal relationships within the organization, I do believe there is a good amount of influence people in less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[76623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leader-follower-relationships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}