# How is Your Work Consumed? By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2023-05-09 As an analyst, how do most people consume the content you create? If your answer involves PowerPoint and a meeting, you are not a great analyst. Great analysts find ways of influencing decisions and thinking beyond scheduled time intervals and bullet point idea grunts. In all likelihood, your reliance on meetings and presentations means your impact is minimal at best within the organization. Meetings are fleeting and short. They rarely make any impact and are mostly managerial tools used to check boxes. If you are sequestered away for months working on a project and you present the results in 30 minutes, what value do you think you delivered? Wouldn't it be better to be in the trenches? How about getting your models embedded into the daily reports? The answer is yes, no matter what you think. Behind closed doors, leaders and people within the organization are openly asking what you and your team do all day. They will say things like they are a smart group but I have no idea what value they bring here. You won't hear these comments because you are locked behind a closed door looking at numbers all day and complaining about how others don't "get it" and wishing you had better data to try a new technique. But trust me, these comments are happening. People are actively questioning your value and if you are the right person for the job. It doesn't matter how long you went to school or how long you've worked there. If you rely upon meetings and presentations to convey your work, you are signing up for a long career of suffering. #### Related Items [[Analytics]] [[Work]] [[Presentations]] [[Reporting]] [[Meetings]]