Do not inherit every invisible task

Women's confidence · Little Light original

The meeting needs notes, the farewell needs organising, and someone should remember the birthday card. Once again, people look toward the woman who has quietly handled these things before. Each task is small. Together, they consume attention that rarely appears in a performance review. You may care about the team and still notice the pattern. Choose what you genuinely want to contribute, then make the rest visible. Suggest a rotation, add coordination to the project plan, or ask the person assigning the work which priority should move. The point is not to refuse every act of care. It is to stop treating care as an unlimited resource supplied by the same person. Invisible work becomes easier to distribute when it is named without apology. Your warmth does not depend on always volunteering first. You can support the people around you while protecting time for the work you were hired, trusted, and hoping to grow to do.

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