You've been lied to.
You were told, if you worked hard,
and were great at your job, you would get promoted,
make lots of money
and be happy.
But instead, you've worked hard and excelled only to be
passed over for promotions and have more work dropped on you.
The problem is, you're too good to promote.
So you need to start being strategic about your impact at work.
If you're like the ambitious professionals that I work with,
you show up and give 110% to everything that you would do.
You take meticulous notes,
you maintain Inbox Zero,
you're happy to have your brain picked by anyone who asks
only to be frustrated AF if when you realize that
no one notices your work - at least the folks with the power to promote
you.
Here's the thing...
your impact only matters when it's influencing a priority.
The rest of it is just noise that will
distract you reduce your visibility and your impact
and can even lead to career burnout.
That's why if you want to be really successful and advance your career,
you need to calibrate your effort to the impact.
Start by determining what you can stop doing at work.
As you gain experience, take on more responsibility and advance in your
career,
this is going to be crucial, yet it's something that so many ambitious
professionals
and even new managers struggle with let go of the things that you don't
need to do.
There are tasks that you do every day that
you do simply because they've always been done
reports that are generated that no one looks at steps
of a process that could be streamlined or eliminated.
And in many workplaces I've seen there are tasks that are
done that can cease to exist entirely. Most often though,
take a look at what you do and ask what can be delegated?
Are you holding on to a low visibility client or project because i
t's always been yours. And it's easy enough,
but you really should transition to a new team member.
Or perhaps you can optimize your time by sending time to check in
on your email, instead of dropping whatever it is you're doing
every time you get an email notification. Of course,
this isn't going to remove everything from your to do list.
the real way you're going to dramatically increase your impact at work is
And it's not even going to be your biggest time saver,
to identify where you're going to be mediocre AF.
Meet those expectations and move on.
Because done truly is better than perfect.
This is going to be a truth bomb for all of my overachieving friends,
you don't actually have to do everything to the best of your ability.
Some things just need to get done.
If you want inspo, take a look at Slacker Chad.
What's work that you have to do you can't get rid of b
ut the quality doesn't need to be top notch?
Thing things like expense reports and CRM notes.
Another great example,
and let me know in the comments if this has happened to you,
have you ever stressed for days over a presentation that you
need to get making every slide and every word on
those slides perfect only to skip the vast majority of those slides
work that you do is the high impact work,
which means that 80% of what you do
should just meet expectations.
Nothing more, nothing less.
This will save your time, your energy and
your attention to that 20% that will truly
accelerate your career and that is where you're
going to excel my overachieving friend
the things that you really show up and
putting your best effort need to meet
at least two of these three criteria. First,
it needs to be within your UAQ,
your unique awesomeness quotient.
Your UAQ encompasses your strength and
your highest potential which means it's going to
fast track your promotions at work help you increase
your salary and is even key in building
strong relationships at work. If you don't know
yours yet download my free UAQ starter kit.
Your UAQ is what will build your reputation at work,
which we talked about in my last video.
But it's also going to be what generates results that
make you competition lists amongst your
coworkers including slacker Chad.
Second, you will only show up for the things that
are a priority for your boss and the business.
Your leadership team is only going to notice the things that
are a priority for them. You know the things that help
them achieve the company goals,
get bonuses that their success is measured on
when your work results in goal attainment for your
boss or the whole company, your impact is
going to be unignorable, and your visibility and
your opportunities at work are going to skyrocket.
And the third criteria in order for you to show up
and do your best at work...
Will it help you build strategic relationships?
Because like we also talked about in my last video,
it's not what you know, it's who you know, that truly matters.
really mattered was the conversation in the room.
Here's a great example one of my clients opted into
a project at work simply because the VP that she
reported up to was the executive sponsor
and they were also personally involved.
Her participation gave her access to someone
several levels above her
which obviously increase your visibility at work
with you know someone with the power to promote her
since obviously your boss is going to do what their
boss's boss's boss tells them to do or even removes
them from having a say in it. And this is something that
it's hard to detail in a video like there's too much to go
into it for me to make a video and that's why I go
into it in so much detail in my Career Glow Up Program,
and I've gotten a lot of requests to open it for enrollment again,
so maybe stay tuned. But more importantly, if you
want to get promoted at work, you need to make sure that y
ou're implementing the three R's to get promoted at work.
Go and watch this video to find out what they are