Focus bands.

Doing great work

Quality is an important part of all we do at Artefact. As an individual contributor, your primary focus is on doing quality work that directly impacts our ability to deliver results. To start, you will work on proficiency within your domain, learning from and partnering with those around you on the Operations team, and finding ways to create efficiency. Over time the tasks you take on will get increasingly broader and more complex, and success will come from affecting outcomes and business value.

Delivering great results

Delivering great results is a team effort. As a leader your role is to provide the necessary direction, guidance and support that helps your team to do great work.

Raising the bar

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.

Getting things done

You play a critical role in helping 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.

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 need support from others. You may not have all of the answer, however you can still succeed by monitoring your team's health and seeking help when needed. Over time, you will gain confidence and independence in maintaining team health despite the challenges that increased scope and complexity bring.

Creating the conditions for success

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.

Being a great partner

To make great work come to life we must be great partners. While others more senior on the team may take the lead in managing internal stakeholders and driving strategy, as a member of the team, everything you do has the ability to build understanding, add or detract from the experience, and ultimately influence success. Beyond demonstrating professionalism, that starts with developing empathy, active listening, engaging to understand needs and perspectives and eventually leads to your ability to inspire and elevate perspectives. Over time your expertise will be relied on as a key to project success.

Guiding partners success

With the help of your project team, you guide your clients towards positive outcomes.

Being a trusted advisor

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.

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.

Contributing to the Artefact community

You are a driving factor behind internal initiatives that impact both our internal processes and the industry, you contribute to hiring new team members and participate in business development activities.

Creating Artefact communities

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.

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.

Helping others grow

Helping grow the next generation of leaders

Sustaining employee growth

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