When you are executing on Delivery, Drive, Initiative and Leadership, not timeboxed or componentized, but concurrently, each day, every day you grow. I have to be clear on this last point. You will amaze people with your skillset and they will immediately want you to “keep doing what you are doing” or “focus in on this particular area”. Whether it aligns to where you want to go and what you want to do is…
In everything you do, you are a leader. You might not know it yet or maybe you look at other leaders in your team and think “that’s not me, I can’t be like them, they just “know” stuff… sigh”. You don’t need a formally structured team to be a leader. Helping a customer’s development team understand the latest coding interface you created is leadership, working with internal users on user experience testing or demonstrating…