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At my last company, I was mentoring a new analyst who was consistently missing deadlines on weekly performance reports that fed into a leadership dashboard used by about 15 stakeholders. His reports were often 1–2 days late and had data quality issues, which forced others to re-check his work and slowed decisions. Instead of just fixing his reports, I sat down with him to map out his process. We realized he didn’t fully understand some of the SQL queries and was manually cleaning data in Excel. I built a simplified query template with comments, walked him through two full cycles, and set up a checklist and mid-week 15‑minute check‑ins. Within a month, his error rate dropped by roughly 70%, and he hit 8 of the next 8 deadlines. The team gained back about 3–4 hours per week previously spent on rework.
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