Get that promotion you deserve
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This document provides advice on how to get a promotion, with the overall message being that you need to take charge of your career development and actively work to advance your skills, network, and visibility within the organization. It discusses growing your skills and comfort with feedback to facilitate career growth. It also emphasizes becoming influential by developing mentors and sponsors who can advocate for you, building your presence by focusing on competence rather than likability, seeking feedback, focusing on business impact over busywork, finding your passion, and clearly asking for promotions.
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Get that promotion you deserve
- 1. Get that promotion you deserve
- 3. The day I became CEO of my career Time PromotionLevels
- 4. ASK “Actually, it is mostly women’s fault. They simply don’t ask for raises or promotions as often as men do.” Why men don’t promote women more - Forbes.com research 1. YOU ARE THE CEO OF YOUR CAREER
- 5. growth & skills 1. YOU ARE THE CEO OF YOUR CAREER
- 6. Strengths Weaknesses Working on 1. 2. 1. Not working on 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. YOU ARE THE CEO OF YOUR CAREER
- 7. 1. YOU ARE THE CEO OF YOUR CAREER
- 8. 1. YOU ARE THE CEO OF YOUR CAREER
- 9. excessively unpleasantly 1. YOU ARE THE CEO OF YOUR CAREER
- 10. 1. YOU ARE THE CEO OF YOUR CAREER sell yourself
- 11. 2. GROWTH IS ∝ 1/COMFORT Ritika’s law: Growth is inversely proportional to comfort 𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑡ℎ ∝ ______1______ 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡 “The female brain showed greater activity in limbic regions, which are emotion-based centers” Gender Differences in Brain Response to Pain
- 12. 2. GROWTH IS ∝ 1/COMFORT will
- 13. BLINDLY “Boys are trained to be more aggressive, show more fortitude, and be more self-reliant than girls; girls are trained to be more industrious, responsible, obedient, and sexually restrained than boys” Cross-cultural patterns in the training of children: an evolutionary perspective.
- 15. 4. BE INFLUENTIAL “Our interviews and surveys alike suggest that high-potential women are overmentored and undersponsored relative to their male peers.” Why men still get more promotions than women by Herminia Ibarra, Nancy M. Carter, and Christine Silva, in Harvard Business Review MENTORS SPONSORS Talk with you Talk about you (advocate for you) Help you skill up Help you move up Give you perspective Give you opportunities
- 17. “The Warren Harding Error” Chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink “A lack of confidence informs a number of familiar female habits. Take the penchant many women have for assuming the blame when things go wrong, while crediting circumstance—or other people—for their successes. (Men seem to do the opposite.)” One way women tend to assume blame? By over-apologizing” Atlantic article The Confidence Gap 5. BUILD YOUR PRESENCE Men Competence Likeability Women
- 18. 5. BUILD YOUR PRESENCE Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” would be “I’m sorry, I just had this idea – it’s probably crazy, but – look, just as long as we’re throwing things out here — I had sort of an idea or vision about maybe the future?” Famous quotes, the way a woman would have to say them during a meeting
- 19. 6. ACTIVELY SEEK FEEDBACK
- 20. 7. FOCUS ON BUSINESS IMPACT busywork
- 21. 8. FIND YOUR PASSION AGAIN AND AGAIN
- 22. 1. You are the CEO of your career 2. Growth is inversely proportional to comfort Key takeaways - Pick and choose - Get over discomforts - Practice, practice, practice
- 25. In one sentence, write down why you should get your next promotion any any great
- 26. In one or two sentences, write down your intro (what you are working on and why)
- 27. In one sentence, write down one change you want to make and what you will do about it
- 28. Please fill out the feedback form
- 29. Why men don’t promote women more How women should ask for a raise Ask for what you want the Steve Jobs way Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It Create your bragalogue Why you might do your best work when you don’t have a boss Gender Differences in Brain Response to Pain Presentation by Jo Miller at GHC How to stop BusyWork from holding your career progress back
- 30. http://patkirklandleadership.com/ The Confidence Gap Elements of executive presence Accepting compliments Competence Likeability dilemma Managing Competence vs Likeability 4 ways introverts can be heard in meetings
- 31. JK Rowling commencement speech on failure and empathy Summary So good they can’t ignore you
Editor's Notes
- Reason – I learnt a lot of things the hard way and I really wanted to share them with you. Applicable to men, more to women Grab bag of tools, see what works for you,. Practice practice for senior levels Links to further resources, take home cheat sheet
- Story
- That day marked the turning point in my career. MY career was MY responsibility
- You are totally accountable. No excuses. Asking is uncomfortable for women, You can’t change something or expect management to change it if you don’t know what you want.
- I work out a yearly plan with my manager each year Really shine in some areas Move projects around, adjust plan Long term planning
- Have a long term plan, not everything can be done in one year
- DLM had failed twice before, but no one knew [next slide - My new role]
- Women are nearly always apprehensive when offered a new opportunity Error pages in networking, Eric’s shoes
- Applies to all other kinds of growth too [Next slide – research paper]
- Howard Moskovitz and theory of horizontal segmentation Derrick’s example [next slide GHC workshop]
- Top reason for influence was relationships, not position. I hated the term networking, Felt like dating Make your intro about the work
- How to find sponsors
- Put your expertise out there for all to benefit from
- Presence is tricky Women blamed themselves whereas men blamed technology
- We can change the culture
- My dev story Feedback from managers Confrontational conversations – better with practice Write to remove discomfort
- My dev story Feedback from managers Confrontational conversations – better with practice Write to remove discomfort
- Passion is the Secret sauce, Passion is visible Passion is contagious Passion alone won’t get you there, skills are more important You can be passionate about different things, not necessarily about the area