# Articulating Your Value as an Individual Contributor — Abby Covert  ## Metadata - Author: [[Caio Braga]] - Full Title: Articulating Your Value as an Individual Contributor — Abby Covert - Category: #articles - URL: https://medium.com/p/85342d7fafbd ## Highlights - Really good managers don’t have to be good at the thing they are managing others doing, they need to know how to support, fight for and unblock people. - Too often I see teams set on the idea that once you are really good at something, the next step is to manage others doing that thing. This is a flawed logic that lands many of us in the hands of poor managers. - Make sure that you are clearly articulating the value that you bring as an independent contributor - make sure to ask what the growth of an IC looks like on their team. It’s best to find out if there is a ceiling at your particular company. If there is, question that ceiling and make the case to raise it if needed.