- Shalysh Chauhan shares the strategies that helped him develop his professional growth through large technology companies.
- He confirms no manager and resisting the desire to show your knowledge.
- Excessive communication is extremely important in fast -paced environments to ensure alignment and clarity.
This article, which works on a conversation with Shailesh Chauhan, is a product manager in Meta in the Gulf region. It was released for length and clarity. Business Insider checks the date of its employment.
My career in civil engineering in India started and moved to the United States to obtain a master’s degree in the same field. While studying at the University of Illinois in 2011, I realized that the programs were leading a large part of innovation, and wanted a technology profession.
I started taking coding lessons and made my skills to the point that was appointed as director of the first product in a small startup in the Gulf region. I spent five years starting the analysis program and saw it growing from a company from 10 to one of more than 1,000 employees.
She left the starting start in 2018 and joined Uber as a product manager in the same year. Two years later, I moved to Amazon and worked as a producer of Amazon Web Services. In 2022, I made a job switch to Meta, where I work as a product of automated learning.
Four strategies helped me change industries and expand my career’s life:
1. Learn to say no
A saying is not very difficult, especially as a young employee. You tend to exhaust yourself, which can be a threat to your reputation if you go beyond the drawing and then retreat because you took a lot.
Rejection of some requests can gain more respect from your manager. It shows maturity and strategic thinking because you do not allow yourself or your team to spend time on anything randomly given to you.
I see that it is my job to think about the greatest opportunities for me and what I want to say yes. This gives me time points for important projects and save my team.
One of the methods of dealing with this matter is to ask counter -questions about whether what your manager requests will benefit the final product or the team. Another way is to include tasks that you think are important and have a great impact and ask your manager: “Hey, I understand that this may be important, but how will you think about it relatively?” Now, you cannot say safely.
2. Be the stupid person in the room
This is a strategy I learned for the first time starting the start of which I worked, as you were surrounded by senior leaders of Google. I was the first person to be appointed to the product team, and I felt pressure to show what I knew about our products. But I found it useful to listen carefully to get a full picture of the company and the producer so that I do not fight the things that I do not really believe in.
Since then, I have found it important to play a “stupid card” and ask the largest possible number of questions, focusing on questions that reveal visions of others. It is tempting to show that you are aware that you have experience, but this should come from your work, not your words.
Early your career, calm can be difficult because you feel the need to fill any silent moments in meetings and vitality. There is nothing wrong with embracing silence instead of saying something excessive. Listening with interest helps you bring new ideas, which helps you give priority to your job development in the short term in this meeting.
3. Focus on relationships beyond work
I focus on building personal relationships with the people I work with because good relations exceed the company and country’s limits. Also, I do my best when I am surrounded by people I trust and enjoy working with them.
I ask myself whether someone I work with wanting to work with me when he leaves the company. If the answer is no, then I am trying to work on this relationship so that it continues after our daily work.
4. Excessive communication is the key
Sometimes, people feel that they should not repeat themselves after raising a point. But I believe that excessive is an advantage, not a mistake, especially in fast -paced environments where there are many people and priorities, and they all work across multiple time areas.
So, even when I feel I risk the most important need, I chose to repeat myself because there is always a person or two people who lose a message that you send. I use different channels and make sure everyone understands me and that it is on the same page.
