Career | Taking the Ownership

As your career grows, you'd like to take a higher position and take more responsibilities. To achieve these, you have to build your accountability within our organization to take ownership of your earmarked work and deliver the results. To do so, you need to listen, analyze, ask, and commit. 

Listen means clearly understanding the requirements of each assignment. You also need to sufficiently define the problem, including the problem scope and delivery requirements. 

Analyze needs you to clarify the assumptions, know who to work with, estimate, and plan to address the risks. It's also necessary to evaluate your ability to take the challenge and stretch yourself but not take anything over your limit. ​

Ask questions for clarification, suggestions, and assistance from assignment sponsors, stakeholders, experts, and your team. Healthy debate can be helpful to consider different perspectives and let all issue bubble ups to the surface. 

Commit until you are ready by rationally convinced that you are in the right direction. 

In summary, taking ownership of a task is an opportunity and a challenge. Take it with good considerations. 

Interview Questions 
Take a moment to ask yourself if anyone asks you these interview questions. ​

• ​Tell me a time when you challenged a decision that most people in your team agreed with. What happened and your thoughts afterward? ​
• What will you do to take this opportunity when an exciting project comes up? ​