Today was very difficult for me.
I had marathon meetings with our division’s biggest client. This was the culmination of a lengty, often painful, process that involved senior directors and VPs from across the company.
For weeks my life consisted of accommodating “stakeholders”/cooks with competing interests, resulting in way too many spreadsheets and draft contracts.
Today was the big day. We flew in team members from across the country and whipped out our best suits and powerpoints.
I also had to constantly dip in and out of these meetings to deal with fires on other accounts, and to speak at a corporate recruiting career panel.
So essentially I spent the entire day feeling stressed, sweaty, awkward, and over-caffeinated.
The meetings with my client felt more like a strategy session than a formal presentation.
We lobed ideas back and forth with the client, who obviously appreciated the willingness of such a huge agency to come up with unique solutions just for his law firm. (He’d he horrified by how difficult is this. But we campaign for him…)
My team and our management pulled this deal together, came up with something that was in the best interest of our client, and somehow sold it to the corporate decisionmakers.
The client signed this evening.
Finishing my last meeting. Here’s the view.
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Today I realized how lucky I am to be at Thomson Reuters.
My job is frequently stressful. Different teams bicker horribly sometimes, but we truly have the best people in our field and do great work for our clients.
That’s how we were able to impress one of the nation’s leading personal injury lawyers today.
I’m 28 years old and only 4 years out from law school. And yet my company puts me in charge of my division’s top accounts, gives me a seat at the table with VPs, and puts me on recruitment panels with our most seasoned managers.
The company also knows when to get out of the way and let us do what’s right for our customers, which is really rewarding.
That type of trust is rare in the corporate world, and I’m extremely grateful.
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