Sponsor and stakeholder management
Your personal success and that of the analytics team lies partly in your ability to connect and effectively partner with a wide range of people in the organization. The skills you possess, employ, and deploy in the area of emotional intelligence are paramount in this aspect of your work.
In a global organization, if you have a global role, you will need to meet with a substantial number of people, and depending on the culture of the organization, you may need to meet with those people either in one-on-one settings, small departmental groups, or in large auditorium/stadium settings, or perhaps in all of those settings. In a previous leadership role, I ran the global advanced analytics and AI effort and the associated teams. In the first year, I held over 630 meetings around the world. Those meetings included C-level executives, division managers, team leaders, individual contributors, external vendors, supply chain partners, and customers/patients...
