Hi guys and thank you for tuning back in to my channel in this video I want to
challenge you to look at promotions in a different way than widening the scope of
the definition of a promotion a promotion in its most traditional sense
means an advancement in your career which involves some kind of combination
of a higher salary different more prestigious title and usually bigger
responsibilities in other words there is a money aspect a career or a career goal
or learning aspect and an authority power or prestige aspect if these things
are what you are basically looking for in a promotion then the good news is
that there are different ways to achieve this in this video I want to share with
you six ways of how you can get a promotion or fix different ways to look
at it I have labeled each of these types with a name but just be aware that these
are not typical definition or terms that are used at the workplace but these are
just labels that I use to easier to scribe to you want to mean by them and I
am sure that you are actually already aware of these six alternatives but what
I want to do is just try to systemize this for you so that you can be more
aware of your options and hopefully this helps you in your decisions and your
next steps in your career number one is vertical promotion where
you are basically promoted within the same company in the same department so
the field of work is more or less the same but what changes is that you move
up in the hierarchy or you are responsible for a bigger area within the
department or the company and how easy it is to get a vertical promotion really
depends on the situation so if you happen to be in the perfect situation
where you are the only candidate and a job is available for
to move into you and it is well possible that you can get a promotion in a very
short time but on the other hand if you are and what I would call a lot
situation then it could take forever or even never happened this is usually the
case when there is no position for you to move to what if there's simply too
many candidates competing for the same position there are many many reasons why
vertical promotion doesn't happen for you but in essence if you are relying on
this kind of promotion to happen then it means that you are relying on your boss
on that particular department and able you the promotion and if you find
yourself in a locked position for too long then try to find another way and
this is what I'm going to talk about next
number two is diagonal promotion so a diagonal move would mean that you not
only move into the different part of the business but at the same time you also
move up in the hierarchy so rather than just waiting for a position to open up
within your department you also look outside and beyond your department the
only big problem is obviously beside being capable to do the job is that
depending on the company culture your manager your boss and management in
general may or may not be supportive of that move number three is international
promotion and this sounds really exciting usually a company would be
willing to transfer an employee internationally if they feel that this
person in particular has the skills and the experience to deliver extra value in
the destination country this is often the case when the company wants
implemented a project and the target company or want to transfer certain
skills or business practices from country to country fee and that is why
when an employee gets transferred usually what goes along with that is a
promotion and the reason is because this employee is a general deemed to be
more experienced and usually because the scope of work and his area of
responsibility will widen once he knows so anyway you have always been keen to
work overseas and if there is a possibility to tie it in with a
promotion then this might be the way to go for you if you are curious to find
out what it takes and how you can get transferred internationally within the
company you work for then I would encourage you to check out my other
video about how to work overseas and I will list a link above here number 4
creative promotion this is getting exciting now so what this means is that
instead of waiting for a position to open up within the company what you do
is that you contribute to the company in such a way that it necessitates the
creation of a new hire position and for which was likely you are the most
qualified person for so an example for this let's say that a company selling a
certain software has just expanded their team and has formed a team to focus on
sales in Western Europe and you happen to be one of two team members of this
newly formed team so let's say that in the beginning the company didn't have
any plans to expand this too rapidly but what happens is that because your
performance was so outstanding and you managed to acquire so many new customers
and pull so many sales so that the business for Western Europe expanded so
rapidly beyond the company's own imagination what could happen is that
the company management then sees the need for this area in particular to
expand for the team to go so what they would likely do is to hire more
salespeople to get more people on board let's say they try to form a team with
eight new salespeople and because you have been working on this particular
region for let's say one year or two years and you have been the top
performer out of two team members three members you are likely to be the most
experienced person in this area and since a team of ten salespeople is
likely to leader who do you think management is
most likely to think for this position so this is a way of how you can be
really proactive about your career rather than waiting for a promotion to
happen being part of the process itself and
contributing towards the possibility of a new job position two between and
before you say that this is something that's impossible I would like to share
to you that this is actually something that happened to me personally and if
you are interested that I will share this with you sometime in another video
number five is outside promotion yes you heard correctly so what I mean by
outside promotion is that you stop looking within the company to get it for
motion and start widening your possibilities by looking outside of
course the easiest and most comfortable way seems to be to look within the
company but there are situations where it is just not possible for example
because of the level of competition that is present because the business is
simply not open to that or one reason could also be that giving you a
promotion is just not the priority of your manager at this moment so while I
really understand your desire to be loyal to your company and I really
emphasized was that because I also tend to be the type of person who wants to
stick with what a company for as long as possible but I believe that a working
situation always has to benefit both parties so if the company is getting
what they need out of you but you are not getting what you really need for
your career out of the company then it's really time to move on number six is
promotion to CEO so this is what thinking outside of the box really means
so instead of relying on other people on companies on management
to finally give you a promotion that you think you deserve you can promote
yourself to CEO by starting your own business
yes of course at the beginning area of responsibility might seem very small
compared to your scope previously but at the same time you might find more
opportunities to actually maximize your potential if the reason that you want a
promotion is basically money career advancement and authority and becoming
the CEO of your own company is something that could possibly fulfill this means
while the possibility of a higher reward is certainly there the risk is much
larger and it is not something that I want to downplay by any means but
theoretically this is an option that you could consider so these were six
different ways to get a promotion or more precisely six different ways to
look at a promotion if you have been waiting for a promotion happen in your
company a vertical promotion and it hasn't happened for you after so many
years although you are certain that you deserve it and you are the right person
for it I would advise you not to get stuck and stay put there but rather be
proactive about your own career and try to consider these other possibilities
that I mentioned of course this is only the case if your goal is to get a
promotion as soon as possible as fast as possible and this is your part but I
would never issue that this is the main priority for every person in fact I know
many people the trends of mind on the contrary are dodging a promotion because
they do not see a higher position contributing to the quality the vision
and goals in their lives but that's a story for a different time by listing
down this option I'm not saying that getting promoted fast is a desire
I'm simply saying that if it happens to be your goal to get a promotion fast
then these are the options that you can look at if any one of these types of
promotions interests you in particular then by all means please leave a comment
in the comment section and I will try to make a separate video on it where I
elaborate in more detail I hope this video was useful for you please let me
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