Hey Ambitious Professionals! It's Linda Raynier of Lindaraynier.com, guiding you
to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. And in today's video, I am going to walk
you through 3 reasons why you haven't been promoted yet in your
current job and why you're still stuck in the same old job and what you can do
about it.
As a Career Strategist, I have had the honor of being able to help numerous
professionals land their dream job offers in companies where they're
experiencing career growth development and if this is something that you're
interested in if you're interested in working with me 101 I can give you
details about that at the end of this video. If you're watching this video it's
because you're someone who works hard, you do a good job in your position, in
your company, and at the same time though all that effort all that energy that
you've put into your job hasn't gotten you much because you're constantly being
passed up for promotions and for whatever reason other people around you
who may not be working as hard or may not be as smart as you are, are getting
the jobs that you want. So why is that? Well, like I said there's 3 reasons
that I believe that are causing you to limit yourself from being promoted and
these reasons are actually beliefs beliefs that are deeply embedded within
you that you need to shift out of in order to get yourself moving on that
path to better promotions and opportunities. Belief number one is
"working hard" is the key to success. If you were like me you were probably
raised in a family that emphasized hard work, emphasize the idea that as long as
you worked hard, you studied well, you've got good grades then one day you'll be
rewarded with a great job opportunity and once you start your new job their
first full time job let's say you work hard and that has actually helped you
throughout the years because it's probably gotten you to the level that
you're at now but what you're finding is in the most recent months and years hard
work alone doesn't seem to be enough and that's because you've had this belief
that hard work is what's going to get people to respect you but now you're
starting to get hints and realizations that that's not always the case. The
reality is, is that if you're someone who just goes into work, puts your head down,
does your job and leaves, and you don't develop any relationships with your
coworkers, with your bosses, with anyone and you're not fully expressing yourself
then you're just being seen as someone who does what they're told and that's
not being seen as leadership material. So the next time
that you're in the office and you find that people are piling work on to you
because they think that you're gonna be the one to get things done even though
that work doesn't belong to you, instead of saying yes to them, I want you to
implement my approach which I call I-D-W and I-D-W stands for impact, deadlines and
who. So let's start with impact. The next time someone offers you or asks you to
work on a project or a task that they want you to get done you need to ask:
what impact is this going to have on the company on the department and on others
in the organization? Is it going to have a major strong immediate impact or is it
a backburner kind of task? You need to be able to prioritize and understand the
impact of every little thing that you do in order to be able to identify what the
most important things are and be able to communicate what back-burner tasks
you're not willing to do at the moment because if you don't speak up when you
know that something's not that important yet you're being thrown to do it and you
say yes to it that's how people are going to see you is just someone that
does the back burner tasks so if you start to understand that there are
projects and assignments that are more important than others and while you're
working on those and making sure that you move those forward and move those
along that if someone approaches you to ask you to work on something that's a
backburner task that you have the confidence to be able to explain to them
why that is not something that you can do right now however that's something
you can help them with if they need the help and assistance in that area however
you have your priorities right now because this is what's most important
that is what's going to allow you to be seen as someone who has confidence
within herself to be able to establish healthy boundaries you don't want to be
someone who's a doormat you don't want to be someone that people see as just
I'll give it to that person to do the work because I know that they can get it
done well even if that person is your boss you want to establish boundaries
for yourself not in a negative way but in a positive way and we'll continue
with what they mean by that is for deadline so is the deadline high
urgency is it due tomorrow is it something that's due immediately if yes
then that is a high impact high urgent type of project or task and you should
say yes and you should work on it but if it's something that is farther out into
the future then it shouldn't be something that you should be working on
now now I know that as a hard worker we want to get through all the things that
are assigned to us we want to get through them all whether they're due now
or do later but you again you have to understand the impact and part of
understanding the impact that you're gonna have on the company and for the
people around you you have to understand the urgency and be able to prioritize
that way and finally the last question is who who assigned you this task or
project was it your boss or your boss's boss if that's the case then yes that's
high impact high urgency but if it's anyone else if it's a co-worker that's
all of a sudden asking you to do something that they should be doing then
you really need to assess the situation there you need to go to them and have
the confidence and be willingness to say do you know how to do this because I
currently have these tasks that I'm assigned right now and if this is
something that you need help with absolutely I can help you but do you
know how to do it yourself or do you want me to show you the ways or
techniques on how you can do it because the truth is if they're asking you to do
something on their behalf and it's really their project or their task that
they're supposed to do it means that they probably don't know how to do it
and they're going to you so that you can do it for them and if you're someone
who's nice and who's been a yes-man or yes woman over the years they're
thinking is that you're going to say yes to them now it's time to reverse it a
little bit establish boundaries for yourself and offer them the assistance
in terms of let me show you how to do it and so that you can do it yourself as
opposed to sure I'll do it for you belief number two is I don't have to ask
for what I want they should see I deserve it and give it to me a lot of
hard working professionals that I've come across have this embedded belief
within them well I'm sorry to say but the reality is in a lot of organisation
if the boss that is above you or their boss is above you it's not someone who's
going to be all that forward-thinking and isn't someone who sees things in the
long term which means they're not the greatest boss to begin with but if
there's someone that's like that then what's going to happen is if you don't
speak up and you don't ask for that salary bump or that better title or that
amazing project that you want to work on if you don't ask for those things
especially when you're ripe when you're ready for them you're not going to be
given them now before you run off to your boss and start asking him or her
for a raise I want to start the this with the premise that you already need
to be performing you need to be ripe for those opportunities what I mean by that
is we've already talked a lot about how you're a hard-working individual you've
put a lot of energy into your job you've done a lot of things for them but the
truth here is you have to ask yourself am i someone who has just been exerting
a lot of energy or am i someone who has been is exerting a lot of energy and has
been efficient in what I do I've gotten things done accurately
I've been efficient in what I do people see me as a strong performer in my job
see me as a knowledge champion as an expert in the work that I do if that's
how you're being seen right now and that's how you feel about yourself in
the role then yes you are ripe and you can get real negotiation tactics in
another video that I've created called how to negotiate a higher salary for
yourself which I'll have the link down below but at the same time you have to
remember when you're walking into these negotiation meetings and you're asking
for that pay raise or that title you really want to make sure that you are
able to articulate and express the value that you have brought to this company
what have you contributed what are the accomplishments that you have made what
are the numbers and metrics that come along with that
you have to be able to prove it and demonstrate it almost as though as if
you're a lawyer and you're you know articulating your case making a case for
why you deserve something and you have to demonstrate a sense of I'd like to
say confidence but confidence can be a very big term for some people just a
sense of groundedness be grounded and truly believe that you
feel that you're ready and and not just that you're ready but you deserve these
things so when you can bring that energy into these meetings and you can display
your value and your abilities then that's what's going to shift the boss's
perspective and actually entertain there hopefully they'll at least entertain the
idea of giving you what you're asking for
and the third belief that you might have is I feel like the people who get ahead
are fake and brownnosers I don't want to be like them if you haven't already
experienced it then I'm sure you will eventually at one point in your career
and that is in the corporate world you're going to come across all
different kinds of personalities just like anywhere and yes there's the
unfortunate circumstance where at times there are people who are able to get
ahead by stepping on other people to get there but that's not going to be you so
don't even bring those people into your existence or into your own awareness
because you don't want to be tainted by thinking that that's how it is that
that's how people are able to get ahead because it's not the reality is most
people do what you're doing they work hard they are able to demonstrate
results in their job but the thing that you're not doing that they are doing is
that they feel that they deserve it and therefore they're willing to ask for it
so what I suggest is instead of looking at those types of people look at the
people who are actually inspiring you the people they could be in your
organization that could be outside of your organization they could be people
who you follow online but you want to start to surround yourself with an
understanding of people who are exhibiting qualities that you admire
people who are inspiring you who are uplifting you because the more that you
can believe that those people exist I mean they do exist and the more that you
can surround yourself in that sort of energy then you're the more that you're
going to be able to mimic and sort of emulate those qualities within yourself
the truth is if you admire a quality about someone it's there's a good chance
that that already exists within you it's just that you're not fully expressing it
yourself so if you ever catch yourself saying I
wish I could be as confident or talk as well as that other person I wish I could
negotiate as well as that other person I wish I could present as well as that
other person whatever it is part of it is that you wish that because you feel
that you're lacking in it but really you already have that quality you're just
not working on it enough you're not expressing it fully so instead of
looking at the negative people look at the positive and from there see how you
can emulate and improve yourself by surrounding yourself in that positive
energy it's time that you understand that to get ahead it's not about being a
brown-noser or being fake true great leaders exist and the way that they've
gotten to where they have is because they've been genuine authentic they know
their values they know their strengths and they're able to demonstrate that and
bring that forward and they're able to articulate and express that in front of
anyone they're not only looking at a certain type of person and demonstrating
that to that type of person they genuinely embody it and feel it and
believe it within themselves so as long as you can start to incorporate that
into your life and you can start shifting these three beliefs that are
probably deeply embedded within you then you can start to see the light and
hopefully that will guide you down the path of eventually getting what it is
that you deserve whether it's a better career opportunity or that bump in
salary or that better title or that amazing project you deserve it you just
have to shift your beliefs to get yourself there so now that you've
learned the three limiting beliefs that are holding you back but yet you're
still finding that you're struggling with your job search and you're wanting
to learn how to sell yourself more effectively to employers so that you can
get that better job with long-term career growth potential then feel free
to reach out to me at lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired
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