As many companies kick off performance reviews this time of year, I often get the question, “How do I get promoted this coming review cycle?” Across my career, I’ve noticed that the people who get promoted usually distinguished themselves by handling 3 different kinds of challenges:
Communication is also crucial, and I'd like to add Influence. No matter your seniority level, the ability to influence other people is important to achieve success. Even though autonomy is an important factor, most successes are achieved together with others.
As always, really well articulated. I would add communication to this list. I sometimes think there is an element of clarity of communication currently asked for during promotion cycles, especially in senior levels. This is good as an ask but this sometimes play a huge part especially for people who might not have had english as their main language growing up. This can be seen as lack of clarity of thought, lack of executive presence etc. and can hinder promotions. As you look around and see the successful case studies, you notice the successful ones have in some form or the other masked their accents and sound like a native english speaker before they break these ceilings.
Love this! Literally pasting a link to this in peer feedback. Also love how short and to the point this article is.
Great article, this is really helpful. Also in future article, please give some insights across the three levers on how to improve. Thank you.
Communication is also crucial, and I'd like to add Influence. No matter your seniority level, the ability to influence other people is important to achieve success. Even though autonomy is an important factor, most successes are achieved together with others.
I really like your writing style and your approach to the problem. Thank you for doing this!
As always, really well articulated. I would add communication to this list. I sometimes think there is an element of clarity of communication currently asked for during promotion cycles, especially in senior levels. This is good as an ask but this sometimes play a huge part especially for people who might not have had english as their main language growing up. This can be seen as lack of clarity of thought, lack of executive presence etc. and can hinder promotions. As you look around and see the successful case studies, you notice the successful ones have in some form or the other masked their accents and sound like a native english speaker before they break these ceilings.