Preparation Is a Kind of Confidence
Priya explains how she stopped trying to be charismatic in client pitches and started being the most prepared person in the room, and why that won more work.
Taking Credit Without Claiming It
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Taking Credit Without Claiming It
Many quiet professionals do excellent work that somebody else ends up describing in the meeting. Priya spent years in that position. This episode is about making work visible without self-promotion, using habits that feel like record keeping rather than bragging.
- The Friday note: four lines, sent every week, never longer
- Putting your name on documents before anyone asks
- Answering 'who did this' plainly and stopping there
- Why asking a good question is also visibility
Priya ends with a story from her practice about a junior architect whose careful site diary earned her a promotion nobody expected.
Transcript
Hi, Priya Raghunathan here, and this is Low Volume. If you have ever sat in a meeting while someone else described your work, this episode is for you. I spent my twenties doing the drawings and watching other people present them. I thought the only alternative was to become a person who talks about herself, and I could not do it. There is another way, and it looks a lot like good record keeping. Today I will explain the four line Friday note I have sent to every manager and client for ten years, why I put my name on documents before anyone asks, and how to answer the question who did this without either shrinking or boasting. At the end there is a story about a junior in my office whose site diary got her promoted. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.
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