10 Tips To Get Noticed, Promoted & Make More Money
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I’m going to go out on a limb here, but if you’re watching today’s video, gents,
you want to make more money.
Now, if you want to make more money, you need to be in a stronger position that pays you
more money.
And in order to be elevated into the stronger position, your work needs to be noticed.
You need to be recognized by other people in your company.
In today’s video, gents, ten tips to get noticed, promoted, and make more money.
Tip number one, you've got to be really good at what you do.
Here's the harsh reality.
You're not as good as you think you are at what you do.
Yeah.
You're above average, you're better than about 60% of people.
Well, guys, that's not enough.
All right.
So, you're really good, you're better than 80% of people.
Still, not enough.
You're really good, you're better than 95% of people.
Now, we're just starting to get somewhere.
Think about it, in today's economy, we're dealing with the winner-take-all scenario.
Now, the winner-take-all market in case you're not familiar with it is when those at the
top earn a disproportional amount than compared to all those below them.
The easiest place to see this market play out, sports.
Let's look at the NFL.
You've got a quarterback, you've got lineman, you've got a backup safety.
It's safe to say this quarterback and the safety both put in a lot of work, but the
quarterback is going to earn one hundred times more.
So, all that being said, what can you do to become a top performer fast?
First up, focusing on your strengths your unique ability, don't focus in on your weaknesses.
What am I really good at?
What when I do it, I actually feel more energized?
Because when you find something that is needed something that you're passionate about and
you can mix those two together with work, all the sudden you accelerate very quickly
and you can become world-class at this very quickly.
Next up, identify the work that matters and then do it.
We're talking about the deep work, the work that is meaningful that is actually going
to progress your career.
Oftentimes during the day, we want to feel like we're getting things done, so we get
really busy with things that don't matter.
You know what I'm talking about.
Showing up to meetings we don't even have to be at, running meetings that we shouldn't
be running, answering emails.
Guys, nobody got a big promotion got a big pay raise because they were really good at
answering emails.
So, have you ever tried cutting something with a dull knife?
It's obvious, right?
If you don't have a sharp edge, you're not going to cut anything.
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But, the point I'm hitting on is this, your mind is like a knife and if you don't sharpen
your mind, you're going to be working and you're going to be hitting things with that
dull edge and getting nothing done.
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So, we've established the first and most important step to getting noticed, promoted, and making
more money is to be a top performer, but you've got to understand that that is not all of
the equation.
In fact, high performance alone doesn't guarantee anything, just ask René Fonck.
Who's this René guy?
Who am I talking about?
Exactly.
René Fonck, he's one of the top World War I aces coming out of France, downed over a
hundred and twenty German planes.
But, history doesn't remember René.
We remember the Red Baron even though he shot down forty less planes.
Why?
Now, let me be clear, the Red Baron was no slouch.
He was a top performer, but he also had something else going for him.
The German government was blowing his horn.
They were making this guy out to be a legend.
Everyone was talking about him.
He had strong networks.
So, this is key, guys.
To get noticed to get promoted, you've got to become a master networker.
It's not all about being the top performer.
When you take the networking with the top performance, magic happens.
And these are the relationships you build.
A lot of guys, they don't like the word networking.
Think of it like building professional relationships.
People start to know who you are and all of a sudden, your reputation grows and the level
of success you are able to achieve is much higher than just if you were a high performer.
[0:05:16] Now, let's talk about you becoming a linchpin.
The term linchpin, I took it from Seth Godin.
What it means is basically it's a pin within a structure that if you pull it out, the whole
structure falls.
Make yourself useful and valuable in many different situations and develop skill-sets,
so that all of a sudden people realize, wow, this person they've only been here two years,
but they've got twenty years it seems like of experience.
They know everyone in the industry, they make things happen.
Those are the people that get promoted.
Next up, strategically volunteer.
I know that you're busy.
Everybody is busy, but a lot of people at work they wait for assignments to be assigned
to them.
How about you actually go out in the company and you look for your next project?
People like this that take the initiative, they don't get the leftovers, they go out
there and they grab and they get the lion's share.
Now, that being said, don't over volunteer, you've got to have boundaries on your time
because when you start to build up a reputation as that go-to person, people are going to
start just wanting to throw things on you.
And you've got to recognize, who do you report to.
And, even your boss you can say no.
Now, you don't say no directly, but what you point out is you've given me this assignment,
if you I take this other assignment that you're giving me now, I'm going to have to put this
other assignment to the side.
And you just have your hard boundaries.
I think that people really when it comes down to it, they can perform very highly at 35
to about 45 hours a week.
Past that, you're really ineffective.
In any company that's trying to push you to do more really they're putting -- I just don't
think they're getting the most productivity out of you.
You can argue with me down in the comments, but I'm a big fan of play hard and work hard
and simply make sure that you're showing up and getting things done.
Now, these next two I'm going to bring them together, you've got your quality standards
and you have your own deadlines.
Now, here's the thing, a lot of people they never set their own deadlines, they don't
set a quality standard if it wasn't given to them.
But, you should have internally your own standards.
When you've got quality standards, people know what they're going to consistently get
at a bare minimum.
Most people you know what their standard is?
The bare minimum, whatever they -- just whatever they can get by with, and that is not going
to cut it.
Now, when it comes to deadlines, now, a lot of people, again, they wait for a deadline
to be thrown on them.
How about you be proactive and put the deadline out there and set it for yourself?
Know that, okay, I am going to hit this I'm going to complete this.
This rarely ever happens that someone is pushing up their own deadlines.
And, again, whenever your boss's boss sees this, all of a sudden they recognize this
person is management material and you stand a better chance of getting noticed and promoted.
And speaking of rare things that employees do, how about communicate better with your
boss?
Not just let them communicate down to you, but you're actually reaching out to them asking
what you can do to make their life easier.
Now, they may realize in you, I want to be really clear, hey, I've got these projects
I'm working on, but I can move them around if you've got something that's more important
for me.
But, what they noticed here is that you were proactive, it makes you look better, all of
a sudden it makes you more prepared because you realize, hey, I got to get this stuff
done because we're going to go over to this other project.
You start getting inside information.
Now, this kind of person is rare because a lot of people are scared to communicate well
with their boss because they're worried about, you know, just simply getting more work.
That's not always the case if you can frame it in a way that you're really clear you are
busy you do have things that you're doing, but is there something of higher priority.
And, speaking of priorities, I know you've got a hundred priorities, right?
Everything is being thrown at you, you've got so much work that you cannot die because
you're going to be busy for the next two hundred years.
The reality is is that we all have a limited amount of time on this planet.
You've got it well identify and zero in on what truly is important and do that first.
Now, this is tough, and to make it easy, I'm sharing with you my priority matrix.
I'm going to pull it up right now.
Very easily you could identify what is urgent and important and ignore what is not urgent
and not important.
So, there's an old story about how Andrew Carnegie brought in a consultant because they
had a hundred things he had to get done.
And so, the consultant asked him to write out those hundred things, he did, a hundred
things are on the list, then put them in the order of priority and then he simply ripped
off the page and left the top five and said.
“You know what?
You're going to do these all week, one each day.”
And, at the end of the day, he got done a lot more and was much more productive.
Now, this next one's a bit more advanced, but that is to clarify your goals with precise
numbers.
So, there's a saying, what gets measured, gets improved.
So many companies so many people in the companies they throw out these lofty aspirations; I
want to become the number one company that makes these type of products.
I mean it is so general that it's almost laughable.
You need to take a step back and first off make sure that you know what metrics matter
and then, all of a sudden you can use those metrics that matter and set them as a score.
Getting back to sports.
When you look at why do we like to watch any game?
Because we can see the score going up and down.
The score matters.
Being able to have metrics being able to have that as you build out your goals, all of a
sudden when you start pressing for that when you're the person that is saying, hey, what
metrics actually matter, can we get these into our goals and can we track as we go after
these, you become invaluable.
You become the person that gets noticed, the person that gets promoted, and the person
that makes more money.
So, what video to watch next?
How about improve your morning routine?
I've got ten simple tips to having a better morning routine for you right here, guys.
Go check out the video.
I will link to it down in the description.
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