Design

Focus bands.

Focus bands provide an overarching framework to help guide you through your career at Artefact. Along with level-specific content, they help bring focus to your day to day activities, help you understand what you are accountable for, illuminate opportunities for your growth, provide clarity about the requirements for advancement and offer a starting point for you to reference when seeking feedback and having conversations with your coach.

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Individual focus

At the individual level, you are a practitioner who contributes through your craft, focusing on doing great work, honing your process, mastering your knowledge & skills and becoming a great consultant. If you continue to principal, rather than director, you will build a unique portfolio of expertise expressed through expert-level craft and thought leadership that is aligned to your passions, relevant to Artefact, and uniquely valuable to our clients.

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Designer

Designer 2

Senior Designer

Principal Designer

Team focus

At the team level, your focus is on leadership; leading healthy teams to deliver quality results that guide clients to success, contributing to initiaives that improve the Artefact community and helping others grow. Over time you will lead others through increasingly complex, ambiguous and challenging topics and situations.

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Associate Design Director

Design Director

Senior Design Director

Portfolio focus

At the Portfolio Level, your lead through others to raise the bar success of both your clients and Artefact, across multiple cross-disciplinary projects, leading to a world class portfolio of work. You help to increase the quality across all project aspects, inspire project teams and support their efforts, and you are a trusted advisor to several of Artefact's clients. Internally, you connect Artefact's core leadership team with the broader team, which you help to build and grow.

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Executive Creative Director

Organization focus

At the Organizational Level, you help to define Artefact's vision and shape Artefact's business strategies.

You form and nurture strategic relationships with key partners and clients, and you are an ambassador for Artefact's culture.

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VP Design

Craft

Doing world class work

Doing great work

Creating positive impact for people, business and society is our mission. As an individual contributor, your focus is hands-on, on the front lines doing the exceptional work that directly impacts our ability to achieve this goal. To start, you will contribute thoughtful, creative solutions within defined parameters using the skills most central to your core discipline. Over time the problem spaces you tackle will get increasingly more broad and complex, and your impact will come from conquering more ambitious and ambiguous outcomes and problem spaces using skills both central and adjacent to your core discipline.

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Over time (Senior Designer)

Proficient with standard discipline specific tools

Master of all relevant discipline specific tools

Generate thoughtful solutions within a well defined problem space

Generate holistic solutions that drive broader outcomes and business value even in complex or ambiguous problem spaces

Generate solutions that are clearly informed by the POV/vision/strategy/architecture

Contribute to and drive the creation of a strong POV/vision/strategy/architecture

Explore multiple creative, divergent solutions

Explore mulitple solutions that address both known and new problems/opportunities

Pay attention to detail and display a passion for quality, using existing patterns appropriately

Set the bar for quality, establishing patterns for others to follow

Work with others from the same discipline

Can be the sole practitioner of your discipline

Research project-relevant data

Identify project-relevant, thought provoking themes across multiple sets of data

Contribute via deliverables within your core discipline, while understanding activities in related disciplines

Contribute across all phases thinking beyond your own discipline, and able to fill in for an adjacent role from another discipline

Understand customer, business & societal needs

Identify customer, business and societal needs

Think analytically

Understand holistic systems

Translates goals of research to needed research materials like screeners, discussion guides, and test stimuli

Generates research questions proposes methods that align to the goals of the project overall

Supports primary research sessions and stakeholder workshops

Leads primary and secondary research activities as well as stakeholder workshops

Discover and document insights and findings from primary and secondary research

Builds insights and findings into more strategic frameworks and opportunity areas that address client and industry context

Craft

Doing world class work

Delivering great results

You are at the center of delivering great results by providing direction, guidance, and support to helps your team do great work. As a new team lead with past experience primarily around work central to your core discipline, you may start by leading smaller projects with deliverables more squarely centered around this discipline, or be paired with additional creative support. Though you are still responsible for the program as a whole, you should embrace this support to ensure that all work is as strong as it can be. Over time your ability to provide guidance and impact quality across increasingly broad disciplines and phases and with more complex problems will grow.

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Over time (Senior Director)

Identify business goals and desired outcomes, and develop solutions that address them

Propose methods and approaches, addressing business goals, outcomes, and client culture

Responsible for quality within own discipline on a project

Responsible for quality across all disciplines on a project

Develop a point of view and vision, centered around your discipline's landscape, trends, verticals

Guide your team in developing a cross-disciplinary project point of view and vision and provide creative direction

Seek 360 degree feedback about the work and your leadership

Help ensure everyone is seeking and getting feedback about work and their contribution

Connect your own discipline's designs and strategies to a client's business, by communicating impact and value

Deeply connect cross-discipline solutions to clients' business goals

Craft

Doing world class work

Raising the bar

Quality is at the core of everything that we do at Artefact. As an executive director you are responsible for ensuring your teams' work meets and exceeds the bar across all aspects of craft, process, delivery and service. You do this by maintaining connection to projects, clients, teams and individuals; strategically intervening to inspire, set expectations, provide feedback and/or do whatever is necessary given the unique situation and people to ensure the work is the best it can be.

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Strategize around Artefact's mission & capabilities across disciplines

Provide strategic guidance as needed

Ensure the team is focused on the right priorities

Understand all activities and work at an appropriate level of depth

Advocate for client needs ensuring Artefact meets or exceeds delivering on commitments

Provide constructive and actionable feedback

Inspire and challenge teams to elevate the quality of thinking and execution

Recognize when a major shift is necessary and provide strategic leadership to see it through

Craft

Doing world class work

Delivering on the vision

Your role is to champion the vision, devise strategies, and activities to help us achieve it, and take appropriate actions within the business in light of the priorities that the vision demands.

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Listen to signals that influence or challenge Artefact's vision, help to hone the vision, and communicate it consistently, both internally and externally.

Establish practices/policies that align us to our vision and strategy, and that ensure quality

Consistently communicate to the studio about our priorities

Lead development of new offerings and methods

Provide feedback and guidance to individuals and teams to inspire quality

Participate in business development, and inform proposals to ensure positive outcomes and alignment with Artefact's vision

Lead high-priority organizational initiatives (rocks)

Promote new ideas in the world, through speaking engagements or writing

Craft

Doing world class work

Doing great work and building on specialized expertise

Delivering outstanding work is essential to Artefact's success. As a Principal, you are an expert practitioner who contributes primarily through the delivery of exceptional work and thought leadership that continually evolve the state of the art within a practice, and represents deep knowledge and capability within a specific domain or problem space (which may cut across practice areas). Your expertise is aligned to Artefact's purpose, and is directly relevant to how we create value for clients.

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Consistently demonstrate mastery within a specific domain of expertise with clear value to the organization and our clients

You evolve your mastery to be at the cutting edge; in line with changes in technology, the market, Artefact and client needs

Maintain an expert understanding of the craft, via tools, technologies, and issues within your practice area

You evolve your understanding to remain relevant, to keep Artefact on the leading edge of innovation and capability

You push your practice forward, through the impact on the projects you are assigned to

You exert broader influence on your practice beyond the context of your own projects.

You are capable of working across domains and apply a generalist knowledge of our offering and practices across other disciplines and problem spaces; you are an expert collaborator

You exert influence beyond the context of your practice.

Compared to senior-level peers in your practice, you are able to take on challenges of greater complexity and ambiguity.

Process

Getting things done effectively

Getting things done

You play a critical role in helping Artefact deliver. This starts with a team and feedback-oriented mindset that helps you make and deliver on commitments. You will do this by managing your time and priorities effectively, proactively seeking feedback, being dependable and reliable, raising issues and sharing ideas about how you might best help the team. Over time you will become central to the creation of sound plans, you will anticipate and mitigate risks both for yourself and the team at large that will help your team operate with maximum efficiency.

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Over time (Senior Designer)

Raise issues

Proactively identify and mitigate risks

Know when and how to engage others to help make decisions

Facilitate effective decision making for others and the group

Seek to clarify ambiguity

Lead others through complexity

Organized

Help your entire team to be organized

Proactively ask for help

Solve problems efficiently

Effectively manage time & priorities, and communicate status

Contribute to project planning

Understand the project plan

Provide valuable input to proposals

Try multiple ideas & approaches

Improve the team's output through a reliable iterative process

Have a team-oriented mindset

Bring people together, helping to set the conditions for effective teamwork

Actively participate

Help others to participate more effectively

Proactively share ideas & seek feedback

Provide good critique and helpful feedback

Identify things that are not a priority and are able to say no

Help others prioritize

Objectively articulate the pros and cons of design solutions

Establish frameworks for considering tradeoffs and making design decisions

Maintain productive conversations despite challenging topics or voices

Effectively negotiate differences within the internal team and with clients

Listen well & ask thoughtful project-related questions

Bring clarity to ambiguous or complex project discussions

Respectful of the roles and experience of others on your team, escalating conversations to others as necessary

Contribute to establishing clear roles and responsibilities

Identify & raise awareness of areas of improvement related to team process, communication, etc.

Proactively help to improve processes, communication, etc.

Process

Getting things done effectively

Leading healthy teams

Healthy teams are ones with a balanced focus on quality, productivity, morale, and growth. As a team leader your role is to determine and lead the day-to-day activities to ensure this balance is consistently met. At first, you will lead teams near to your core discipline and/or may need support from others; you may not have all of the answers, however you can still succeed by monitoring your teams' health and seeking help (i.e. from your sponsor when needed). Over time, you will gain confidence and independence in maintaining team health, despite leading beyond your core discipline and the challenges that increased scope and complexity bring.

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Foster interdisciplinary collaboration

Proactively & strategically bring in other disciplines to drive quality

Mentor colleagues from the same discipline on project work

Mentor colleagues across disciplines on project work

Create an organized and efficient division of work with clear roles, responsibilities & expectations

Identify the need for and adjust responsibilities within the team to help the team deliver higher quality more efficiently

Determine involvement and create project plan for your discipline

Accurately estimate a project's size and help to develop multidisciplinary project plans

Create and manage day-to-day plan that meets project needs

Identifies the need & adjust the project plan to better align to project objectives

Understand, monitor, and communicate project profitability to the sponsor

Effectively communicate trade-offs to your clients that result in preferable solutions

Facilitate critique within the team

Facilitate critique of project work across the studio, when appropriate

Keep the Sponsor informed

Fill in for the Sponsor when needed

Seek out ways to raise the bar of quality around both output and deliverables

Actively collaborate with the sponsor to raise the bar of quality around output and deliverables

Process

Getting things done effectively

Creating the conditions for success

Achieving goals requires teams to be set up for success. As an executive director, you are responsible for ensuring that teams, individuals and Artefact are set up for success to achieve goals around quality, profitability, and team health. You do this by monitoring project health, and making or enabling the right adjustments where necessary. Within the team you 'lead from behind' - having maximum impact with the lightest touch: Like a shepherd, you are not always hands-on and predominant, but you are always there. Though you are not usually the day to day leader, you have intent and ideas and are make both known. If there is a threat or an urgent situation, you are ready and equipped to help deal with the situation.

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Help to establish best practices

Ensure that project plans set Artefact up for success

Determine the high level process and work with the lead to adjust as necessary

Drive process innovation by bringing new methods and concepts to different practices

Advocate for resourcing that is optimized for individuals, teams, and Artefact as a whole, connecting the needs of the business to the skills and passions of individuals and teams

Secure the right team and prepare them for a successful project start

Understand how each lead and team is different and adapt your contribution and leadership style accordingly

Ensure clarity regarding roles and responsibilities between project lead, ECD, and AD

Set ambitious but achievable goals for your teams

Provide oversight, support, and mentorship for the project lead

Monitor activity to understand risks that might affect quality/profitability/team health and Intervene to help correct imbalances if and when necessary

Ensure the people are doing the right things on the project and in presentations

Facilitate learning from past Artefact projects and/or other outside sources

Align skills to tasks considering both quality risk factors and individual growth

Process

Getting things done effectively

Ensuring business health

Your role is to monitor the health of the business, participate in high level decision-making, and take appropriate actions to help Artefact achieve our business goals.

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Participate in weekly Leadership Team meetings

Make key decisions about how we utilize resources, respond to opportunities, etc.

Help to identify new opportunity areas, in the form of potential business verticals, topic areas, client prospects, etc.

Participate in leadership discussions and decision-making related to business health

Maintain an awareness of business health, and make adjustments as necessary

See opportunities for improvement, and take action to improve performance

Process

Getting things done effectively

Leading through doing

Sometimes, great results require unique new processes and tools, that can be applied without impacting team health. As a principal, you deliver value through your work in a similar way as a senior individual contributor, but with greater performance and proficiency as would be expected from an expert practitioner, and with a keen eye for cutting edge processes, and tools. Your role as a Principal also Includes additional leadership responsibilities derived from the "team focus" area, as indicated below. You work in collaboration with the project lead and ECD to contribute to quality and team health.

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Work quickly and at a high level of competence, while bringing along others and educating and mentoring more junior associates

Elevate the whole team through your efforts

Add value across multiple programs, have a firm-wide influence and elevate the quality of Artefact's work

Elevate the whole of Artefact through your efforts

Foster interdisciplinary project collaboration

Proactively bring in other disciplines strategically to drive quality

Mentor colleagues from the same discipline on work of your own and across multiple other projects

Mentor colleagues across disciplines, and across several projects

Facilitate critique within the team

Facilitate critique of work across the studio, when appropriate

Seek out ways to raise the bar through your work, as well as through introducing new processes and tools

Actively collaborate with the ECD and Project Lead to raise the bar

Service

Being a great partner

Being a great consultant

To deliver great work we must truly understand our clients and provide an exceptional experience that helps build confidence in Artefact. While others more senior on the team may take the lead in managing relationships and driving high level strategy, as a representative of Artefact, everything you do has the ability to build understanding, add or detract from the experience, and ultimately influence our mutual success. Beyond demonstrating professionalism, that starts with developing client empathy, active listening, engaging to understand clients' needs and perspectives and eventually leads to your ability to inspire and elevate a client's perspective. Over time your expertise will be relied on as a key to project success.

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Engaged & actively listening

Present independently adapting content & communication approach on the fly as needed

Demonstrate professionalism in client interactions

Demonstrate comfort and authority in communication with clients despite a variety of audiences, contexts, and/or challenging topics or voices

Speak up, when appropriate, in client conversations

Take ownership of a meaningful portion of client discussions, workshops & presentations

Communicate clearly and concisely (written and verbal)

Have strong communication and presentation skills that can sell a client on an idea or solution and/or drives decision-making

Ask thoughtful questions

Ask questions which help clients reframe their thinking

Help to ensure that the team communicates to the client as one voice

Contribute to defining strategic messaging to clients

Develop empathy for your clients

Have a significant understanding of the client and the needs of their business

Communicate impact, not effort

Articulate the business impact/rationale

Service

Being a great partner

Guiding clients to success

As consultants our primary ability to create impact is through our clients, therefore your ability to effectively guide clients towards success is essential. At first, your focus will be on current needs. With the support of your team and sponsor, you will build trust personally and in your team by establishing expertise, ensuring the work is represented well, ensuring great communication and a smooth process, and making sure clients are not just heard, but more importantly, understood. Over time, you will become a truly trusted advisor though ownership that goes beyond the work to the project and relationship; by deepening your understanding of your clients' business, thier sitation, and thier future needs, elevating your ablity to lead a proposal or project in a direction a client may not have forseen.

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Build trust with clients

Clients fully trust and look to you for advice regarding current and future projects, neighboring topics and other aspects of their work.

Manage day-to-day client communications and facilitate decision-making

Effectively influence to achieve desired outcomes for client and Artefact

Lead effective client meetings

Prepare for and lead milestone client meetings (e.g. kickoff, final presentation)

Identify & raise potential changes to the project's scope

Contribute to scope change negotiations with clients

Support business development activities

Lead significant parts of business development activities

Participate in capabilities presentations

Lead capabilities presentations

Provide feedback on proposals

Contribute to proposal writing & delivery

Listen and hear client feedback

Interpret what is said to understand what is meant and/or needed

Set appropriate context and present work with clarity and confidence

Employ strong storytelling skills to deeply connect the work to clients' near and long term needs

Service

Being a great partner

Being a trusted advisor

The more clients trust you, the more they will seek your advice, be inclined to accept and act on your recommendations, bring you in on more advanced, complex, strategic issues, and share information that helps you (and Artefact) to help them, and improves the quality of services. As a trusted advisors to your clients, you place a higher value on maintaining and preserving the relationship itself than on the outcomes of the current transaction, financial or otherwise.

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Become a trusted advisor to your clients by establishing credibility and reliability, by focusing on personal relationships, and by being client-oriented.

Credibility: You excel at two things in building credibility: you anticipate needs, and speak about needs that aren't being articulated. You tell as much truth as possible, without harming others. You don't tell lies or exaggerate. Ever. If you don't know something, you say so.

Reliability: You give your clients the repeated experience of links between promises and action, or the repeated experience of expectations fulfilled.

Personal relationships: You deliver messages to your clients without coddling/polishing them. You disagree without being disagreeable. You find the fun and fascination in each of your advisor/client relationships. In building a close relationship with your client, one of you has to make the first move, and it's you!

Client-Orientation: You have a predilection to focus on the client, rather than on yourself, you have enough self confidence to listen without prejudging, enough curiosity to inquire without supposing an answer, and the willingness to see the client as co-equal in a joint journey and as an individual, not as a person filling a role.

Understand your clients' business, including industry, brand, organizational and group objectives and strategy, as well as company values and culture

Through this understanding, you can represent your client's POV to drive thinking & rationale and to provide strategic thought leadership

Develop new and maintains existing business relationships on behalf of Artefact

Foresee potential risks in the client relationship and provide help to ensure it remains strong

Step in to guide conversations as needed to ensure there is confidence in the team and work

Proactively identify opportunities for extending the work that are strategically aligned to the client's needs

Effectively represent Artefact to increasingly sophisticated audiences

Effectively lead business development activities; evaluate opportunities, understand needs, define approaches, author & deliver proposals

Effectively redirect client when they are off track

Service

Being a great partner

Establishing strategic relationships

Your role is to model best practices for how we establish and maintain strategic relationships, to ensure that our behavior as a firm is grounded in empathy for client needs and focused on their success.

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Service

Being a great partner

Being a great consultant

The trusted advisor relationship cannot only exist between a small group of colleagues at Artefact, and especially with regard to the aspect of credibility, you as a Principal play a key role. You are able to advise clients in your subject matter expertise with much greater authority and confidence as other expert practitioners, and you have a demonstrable impact on business development, via repeat engagements and contributions to generating and presenting proposal content.

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Translate your expert understanding into clear value for your clients

Think in terms of business needs, and align skills and interests to both Artefact and client needs

Present work at a high level; articulating a strong and compelling POV, rationale and business value

Make contributions that have a direct impact on new and return business

Consistently and proactively support efforts to deepen client relationships, based on expertise

Contribute to the writing and presenting of proposals, particularly in terms of recommended approaches

Write complete sections of proposals, outlining activities and deliverables, relevant to your area of expertise

Community

Making the whole better

Engaging in the Artefact community

We all have a role in making Artefact the best it can be, and it starts with getting involved. At first you will engage simply by participating; making new connections and getting exposure to new perspectives. You may see opportunities for improvement along the way which you are encouraged to share with an optimistic/problem solving mindset. Over time you will take a more active role in driving the Artefact community by facilitating inclusion and taking a more active role in initiatives that help make us better.

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Over time (Senior Designer)

Participate in internal activities

Actively promote inclusion in your work

Contribute ideas to internal initiatives

Initiate small/medium internal initiatives

Engaged and take initiative to get to know your coworkers

Actively engage with new people to make them feel welcome

Seek to understand best practices

Actively evolve & share best practices

Look for opportunities to help out around the studio

Seek to understand business needs and find/implement new solutions

Solution oriented

Help others to be solution oriented

Introduce the recruiting team to quality candidates

Participate in portfolio reviews

Actively participate/ontribute ideas to internal initiatives

Initiate small/medium internal initiatives

Community

Making the whole better

Contributing to the Artefact community

A healthy and engaged community is essential to ensuring Artefact is a best place to work. As a leader involved with many individuals and groups, you are naturally positioned to make a significant impact. In addition to coaching, you will do this via your contributions to recruiting top talent, by initiating and leading initiatives and pursuing thought leadership that enhances our process and culture and by serving as a positive cultural force helping to align leadership with individuals.

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Over time (Senior Director)

Lead small scale initiatives that impact profitability and/or make Artefact a best place to work

Lead medium scale initiatives that impact profitability and/or make Artefact a best place to work

Sought after for subject matter expertise, both internally and with clients

Participate in speaking engagements

Contribute to discipline growth

Define discipline growth goals

Help with initial vetting of candidates

Support on-campus hiring initiatives as well as on-site interview loops

Participate in candidate interviews

Lead candidate interviews

Leverage new tools, techniques, and technologies for Artefact

Contribute to the professional discourse through thought leadership (articles, conference talks, design concepts, prototypes, etc.)

Proactively identify and provide constructive insights/feedback about Artefact health to leadership

Relate strategic initiatives from leadership to the wider organization and vice versa

Community

Making the whole better

Creating Artefact communities

Artefact can only be a world-class firm, if team members of all ranks have the same understanding of vision, objectives, and of the immediate tasks at hand, and if they all collaborate as one to achieving the company's goals, big and small. You serve as the connective tissue between Artefact's core leadership and the wider organization.You effectively work with the core leadership team to improve Artefact, you lead sizable internal initiatives, groups, and teams, and you provide leadership within your discipline.

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Maintain a pulse on the organization and relay key insights to the leadership team

Help connect company initiatives to the wider organization by communicating and adding context to what leadership is thinking/working

Identify and proactively help to fill organizational gaps

Responsible for discipline leadership & health; you define growth goals for your discipline and provide resources and support to help the group thrive

Help connect your discipline to others at Artefact to improve efficiency, collaboration, mutual understanding, and the overall experience for all

Lead medium-to-large scale initiatives that impact profitability, make Artefact the best place to work, and increase Artefact's visibility in the industry

Community

Making the whole better

Sustaining our culture

Your role is to model Artefact's culture, based on the values that guide our behavior, and to take action if you notice behaviors that are misaligned to our values.

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Community

Making the whole better

Thought leadership (internal/external)

Clients come to Artefact for our deep subject matter expertise, and as a Principal, you are a key ambassador for Artefact in this regard. In addition to making direct contributions through project work, as a Principal, you also contribute to the practice by proactively building community both internally and externally, relative to your area of expertise.

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Evangelize best practices within your discipline, and further the understanding of your practice within the studio

Elevate Artefact's capabilities through demonstration, teaching, and contributing to communities of practice

Are a recognized leader within your practice internally, and the "go-to" person for your specific expertise

Demonstrate evidence of impact on others

Recognized thought leader within your practice externally, through tangible evidence, such as published articles and projects, events, community building, and other activities

Possess a growing reputation and recognition within external communities; you are sought after by external partners

Participate in recruiting and interviews; evaluating portfolios of candidates within your discipline

Your presence at Artefact draws in top talent

Growth

Growing self & others

Mastering knowledge & skills

Opportunities for growing knowledge and skills are plentiful as you work on mastery of your craft and becoming a great consultant. Everyone's growth path is unique, however the common denominator to a successful journey is a learning mindset fueled by feedback, self reflection and the willingness to ask for help. In addition to the tools Artefact provides, you should proactively seek feedback from others at all levels and with a variety of perspectives and frequently releflect to consider how you might continue to grow using your coach to guide you in understanding context and help you set and achieve your goals.

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Frequently self-reflect on your skills and performance

Seek understanding about your blind spots

Proactively and regularly seek feedback about what is working, and opportunities for improvement

Understand how to leverage your strengths and work around known weaknesses

Set goals (accomplishments and personal growth) with your coach, and plan and take steps towards achieving them

Proactively manage long-term goals and growth areas

Seek out new tools, techniques & methods to improve your work

You use new tools, techniques & methods to improve your teams' work

Ask for help

Start to identify skill gaps with others and appropriately help create awareness for them

Actively participate in your own coaching

Drive an effective coaching relationship

Growth

Growing self & others

Helping others grow

Growth via a focus on career development is essential to employee engagement. Beyond retention, it enabling us to deliver on our professional and personal goals. As a leader there are many opportunities to help others grow. In addition to growing practitioners mastery of craft and process within the context of the work, you help individuals grow, by connecting their skills and interests to the needs of the business, and regularly providing them with actionable feedback.

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Coach others that are more junior within your own discipline

Contribute to assessing the levels of performance for people in their discipline across Artefact

Connect the needs of the business to the skills and passions of individuals

Outline career paths and growth for individuals within their discipline relative to their passions, skills, and the needs of Artefact

Regularly provide team members with actionable and in-the-moment feedback

Maintain awareness of individual team member's career and growth aspirations and provide relevant feedback and guidance

Growth

Growing self & others

Helping grow the next generation of leaders

While individual growth might seem most important for Artefact colleagues that are earlier in their careers, helping more experienced colleagues to grow in their careers, is not only critical for Artefact's continued success, it is also a task that requires experience to accomplish. And that's where you come in! You help other leaders in the company to better do their jobs, to expand their horizons, and to keep them motivated through a steady and continuous growth at Artefact.

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Growth

Growing self & others

Sustaining employee growth

Your role is to support the creation of a learning organization at Artefact, and to develop current and future leaders.

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Growth

Growing self & others

Helping others grow

Distributing knowledge and expertise within the organization helps to raise the bar for Artefact and will position us better for success. As an expert practitioner, you provide direct guidance to other team members in the context of project work and in the larger context of a practice. Similar to the Director level, Principals may also coach others, typically within their discipline of expertise, though this is not required.

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Coach more junior colleagues within your own discipline

Contribute to assessing the level of performance for people in their discipline across Artefact

Help to connect the needs of the business to the skills and passions of individuals

Outline career paths for individuals relative to their passions, skills, and the needs of the business

Regularly provide team members with actionable and in-the-moment feedback

Maintain awareness of individual team members' career and growth aspirations and provide relevant feedback and guidance

Make yourself available for critique of the work of others in their area of expertise across the studio

Responsible for improving the discipline-specific skill sets of more junior associates