I’m in a senior position and just coming off a year where I intentionally focused on enabling others and making the collective group more effective. That meant more reactive (and less visible) work.

I got feedback that my contributions weren’t tangible and visible enough. I switched gears back to my previous mode (more proactive work) and all is well again.

Different work cultures treat this differently. At another company my enabling activities would have been valued more. But I do think being the glue in a group is usually undervalued.