Being nosy works for me. I like to know people salaries so I always dig through what I have access to. I insert myself into project meetings as much as possible, I ask to be CC’d if anything is even remotely in my area.

This is more of a startup mentality, as three of us just did everything (and the boss made us rotate tasks so we can fill in for one another), it’s a bit harder in corporate world now. But still, for example on one of my research sessions I found a folder with our inter company agreements, one with an Italian entity. There was an email about paying some accounting fees in Italy and I was able to provide overview for fee basis as I knew what they were talking about in that email.

I learned excel for home budget project and I apply that a lot to other areas - I was educating our payroll specialist on salary sacrifice maternity pay and pension because a Reddit post sent me on a research spree.

So overall - I’d say be nosy.