I don\u2019t think I have ever felt completely ready for any of the biggest opportunities I have been given.<\/p>\n
Looking back, every significant moment in my career has started with the same feeling and the same question: “Can I really do this?”<\/p>\n
For a long time, I thought growth meant becoming more confident before taking on something bigger. However, I have since learned that it is very much the opposite.<\/p>\n
When I joined the HH Group, to be completely honest, I just wanted to do good work and go back home. I focused on learning, asking questions, staying curious, and giving my best to every task, no matter how small it seemed.<\/p>\n
One of the first things that really stretched me was volunteering to take on additional responsibility within my team for our sustainability and CSR initiatives.<\/p>\n
Even though I volunteered because it was a gap we needed to close, I questioned myself every day about whether I was truly ready for it. Could I take ownership of initiatives that reflected not just on me, but on the organisation?<\/p>\n
One initiative that became especially meaningful to me was The Good Project. This campaign was an opportunity to demonstrate how the business was improving lives while caring for the environment.<\/p>\n
As my responsibilities continued to grow, so did my perspective. I stopped seeing unfamiliar tasks as reasons to doubt myself and started seeing them as invitations to learn and grow.<\/p>\n
Today, I lead Brand, Marketing and Corporate Communications at Transcorp Hotels Plc. It is a role that comes with responsibilities I could not have imagined a few years ago. But even now, I still find myself in situations that stretch me. The difference is that I have learned not to fear those moments.<\/p>\n
Because I have realised that every role I have ever grown into first felt too big.<\/p>\n
To this day, I believe the one thing that has shaped my career the most is the people who trusted me before I felt fully ready. Leaders who saw potential in me and gave me room to grow, even when I was still figuring things out myself.<\/p>\n
I would end by saying: don’t wait until you feel completely ready. Some of the most meaningful opportunities in your career will arrive before your confidence does.<\/p>\n
Say yes anyway.<\/p>\n
You may discover, as I did, that responsibility has a remarkable way of helping us grow into the people we are capable of becoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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