Understanding Yourself in Winning Your Next Promotion
To win your next promotion, firstly, you need to nurture a deep understanding of yourself, both your strengths and weaknesses. You have to develop on how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution.
Here are some questions and answers often asked by those who want to increase the chances of winning the next promotion.
1. I’d like to get promoted and have done a lot to be ready for the next assignment. But there are so many others doing the same thing. How do I increase my chances of getting noticed?
Advertising that you want to be promoted is usually inappropriate, but being clear about what you want and why you deserve to be promoted is very important, but a delicate approach can also reap rewards. Some of the ways that are more appropriate are finding a mentor or sponsor in the organization with which you can work, approaching your line manager and discuss your development plan in the light of your assurance that you have more to offer the business and observing those who have been promoted and ask yourself if you have similar attitudes and behaviors. Try to become more noticeable by assuring that you take the opportunity to mix with decision makers and by sharing stories of your success at proper times. Do not overselling too much of your achievements or you may turn off the very people you need to court.
2. No matter how hard I work, I feel that I’m buried in my organization in terms of getting visibility. How can I change this?
Over and over again, your organizational visibility goes up when you increase your visibility in other arenas. You can try to issue articles in trade or professional magazines or agree to invitations or volunteers to talk at conferences. If you want to raise your visibility more rapidly to home to reveal your dedication to the community, you may want to get involved in local politics. Ask yourself what you can do to gain praise in your profession.
3. My organization has dropped from a dozen levels to just a few. Should I forget about becoming a manager here?
It seems that you are working in a flat group, where there are fewer levels in the hierarchy, or maybe in a matrix organization, where the business is structured based on common actions rather than discrete business units. Project teams are often made up of specialists across a business. In such cases, promotion can take on a new sense as there is often no longer an obvious succession path as the person who can most successfully lead a team stands out as management material when the time comes to name a new manager. Learning to lead teams well is your best path to winning a management job.
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. 13 Aug 08 | Employee