hi guys my name is Lucy again I'm a career coach I help women get promotions at work start being
recognized and seen for the work and that having their names been called for interesting projects
if you want to understand more about me I have taped a video of my story and I realized I got
feedback that it's not descriptive enough there's stuff that I've left out now I will record a
second one so you can get to know me better and and and get to know more about why am i cold why
I went into coaching and why am i doing this but today I wanted to talk about five things
five reasons why you are not getting a promotion at work let's get started the first reason is
that you okay maybe before I start with the first reason I just hope that I believe that people who
subscribe here and people who are serious about their post but their careers and not the slackers
and not the complainers and not the victims they are people who just work hard but and not seeing
the difference but if you are if you used to work hard and now you've sort of disengaged I'm
probably gonna have a video at some point about how do you get yourself back from disengagement
and I think just by listening to these videos you probably are going to start finding inner strength
and finding yourself getting back in the saddle so one the first reason is that first reason why you
are not getting a promotion is that you work too well in your parent position you are just so good
that your employer's don't wanna rock that boat this is working why break it if it's working you
are just so so well in what you do and you adjust for that position you look like you act like you
are made for that position and you're just happy in that position and you are just so good in it
and yeah why would they remove you because you do it so well does that mean that I'm saying that you
shouldn't work so well what I'm trying to say is that you have you have made yourself indispensable
you have made yourself and promotable because what you're good at is what you do and you don't give
a you don't give you don't make your employers feel like you can do more or you don't make you
feel make your employers feel like your skills are transferable to other things they just feel
like you are just so good in that and you are in that corner and just think about it from an
employer's point of view they are trying to manage so many variables and if they can find something
that is table it will just stay that way and they would not move it so you have made yourself and
promotable unmovable you have created job security for yourself but that's all that you've done you
have not given people reason why they should promote you and I'm going to talk about it maybe
in another video in terms of how you just make yourself just a specialist and why if you don't
move from that it's dangerous if you get promoted second one you don't punch above your weight which
is more related to what I just said you you know there's a concept of dress for the job you want
and maybe in a video I'll talk about those things about dressing for the job that you want but I'm
gonna talk about thinking and playing about the job that you are in and and playing around the job
that you want so you don't think around just your job you are out there and asking for opportunities
or taking initiatives above your current job that says to your employer this person is underutilized
and is ready for a promotion and even related to that if the third one is you are not strategic
in your thinking you are very operational in your thinking you just know what you do you do
it well but you don't think about you don't think like your manager you don't think like you don't
thinking at the level of your CEO you don't think at the level of the country so what you
need to do is to understand where your role fits in with the company where the company where your
department fits in with the company where where your manager is sitting and what are the things
that bother him you know you think about your CEO your executive where is she sitting how does the
other units work together and what is he or she worried about then you need to think about the CEO
where is the company positioned what is about and what is he worried about and when you do that and
over and above that you need to understand where a company is with regards to your industry and where
your company is with regards to the country the continent and even the globe so you need to put
in the work that will make you think strategically and when you think strategically you go about your
position you even the language that you speak you are now about we because you see yourself
as part of the company and not just a worker in your position so there one of the reasons why you
are not being promoted you not strategic to just operational for it's that you are very technical
but you you're very technical good at what you do if you are an IT person this usually happens with
IT people I'm sorry but you are very technical you know there's nothing no the coding you know
where this deck sits above this duct you are just so good technically but you're not a leader you
don't have the soft skill like I've seen people who have used that you talk to them and oh my
word they've done so many interesting things you can see that they can do the work well but
you don't see them as a project leader you don't see yourself putting them out there as a project
leader who will be able to deal with the politics who'll be able to put her foot down would be able
to articulate herself as a manager as a leader so just as much as you need to be technically good
you need to work on the other skills how do you come up cross how do you articulate yourself how
do you set yourself up as a leader as someone who can take on a task who can take on a leadership
position and stand on the two feet and not always you should stop thinking of yourself
as a as an employee but as a leader and the last one which is different from what I wrote yeah but
the fifth one is that you don't take yourself as a brand I believe I always believe that
people are brands you are not just an employee but you're a service provider should see yourself as