Showcase Your Reliability Accomplishments Well

Showcase Your Reliability Accomplishments Well

When a reliability engineer or manager does their job well, the product just works as expected. Maybe even a little better than expected. There isn’t any major problems that need a hero to resolve.

Work done well, may go unnoticed. To avoid that you need to master the art of promoting successes without coming across as bragging or boasting. For your career advancement, you need to be both successful and likable.

For your program and ability to influence outcomes, you also need to be seen as successful, valuable, and again likable.

So, what are some ways to share what you have accomplished without sounding too self-promoting or bragging? Let’s explore a few tips based on the Harvard Business Review article “Savvy Self-Promotion”, by Leslie K. John in the May-June 2021 HBR magazine.

Importance of Showcasing Accomplishments

My relatively new boss at our first annual performance review asked me, “So what have you done of value lately?”. He followed up with, “What is your return on investment?”. This took me by surprise, yet in hindsight, it is actually a fair question.