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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look OP raised a lot of hackles.  But there is some validity.
It's hard if not impossible to be an autodidact about everything working in isolation with little face to face  peer interaction, and possibly not even much virtually.
Judgement. Nuance. Context. 
Investment in employees.
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Okay but what is it about the current position that makes it a bad place for good work habits? If you have to go somewhere else to be properly managed and trained, it is a comment on the current workplace. It sounds like, "Go work for a real company because we are not one." [/quote]

It is the set up. Like a lot of DC companies. The last four high paid jobs I got was similar places. Smaller companies, with great WLB, regular hours but being smaller means you need to know more. Here is a real example. Staff said I would like this GRC software installed. I said I agree. I have installed that software before. Can you do the following. 
1) get a ballpark estimate of cost
2) be part of budgeting process to see about funding
3) help me write business case and board presentation to get support for it
4) get Risk, Audit, Complliance, First line of Defence, Legal and Sr. Mgt team on board to use tool at same time with same ratings and risk approach. Also get them to give up budget for it
5) update are policies and procedures to reflect new tool
6) Do RFP with three vendors
7) get Vendor Mgt and Legal involved on sign off
9) set up road map for implementation
10) conduct training sessions and write guidance doucuments to use tool
11) get buy in on how to document things in tool the same way all areas
12) will documents in tool be searchable? 
13) write records retention policy   
14) will you be the system admin for tool and train others on tool?. 
15) process to import existing date into tool. 
16) once complete attend board meeting with me to share output tool once we have a full view of risk so they can see value. 
17) once live how will we use AI, get real time dashboards, alerts, track issues what will be info sec controls etc.

I got a look like I am crazy. Meanwhile my last places the staff would run with that as most were from places they do software implementations and roll outs all the time. I have three or five of these things going at once at one job. But my first time I was a small clog in a group of 40 people and I was just taking notes, tracking deliverables, testing functionality, doing walkthroughs with staff on their manual processes we are trying to automate. and reporting back. Till eventually I was in charge.

In a small place hard to jump to in charge and that is just a fact.  [/quote]

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