You want to get promoted at work
and make more money.
But are you ready for it?
There are seven signs that you are ready to get promoted
that you should be watching for
because your boss is.
The first sign is you've become bored with your job,
it's likely that you've been doing your job for a while you've
gotten really good at it. And the day to day of your job is
stuff that at this point, you could pretty much do in your sleep,
there's not a lot of room for professional growth.
And this isn't to say that you hate your job.
But it's so boring.
When you initially got to this level,
you've probably enjoyed it.
It's refreshing to not be overwhelmed and stressed out and
not feeling like you don't know what you're doing.
But it's been a while that you have really felt like you
had a handle on things. And you're starting to get restless,
because you really want to grow and expand in different areas and
stay challenged professionally speaking,
which brings me directly to the second sign that
you are ready to get promoted at work.
And that is you are proactive.
And this isn't a couple of different regards,
you are proactive in the work that you do.
If you notice a problem.
If you notice something that is inefficient,
that would be an easy tweak, you're making adjustments along the way,
you're finding ways to improve processes for your team,
maybe to expand operations or revenue,
you're definitely not sitting back and waiting for your boss to hand you work.
Because of the level that you're operating in your current role,
you have become proficient in identifying things that
really need to happen to keep the team moving forward,
and you're not asking permission to do those things,
you're just gonna go ahead and do them.
This is going to become a huge asset in you actually getting the promotion.
But I'm going to come back to that in just a little bit.
The other way that you're proactive at work is
you're proactive in your professional development.
For example, you are one of my career besties and you hang
with me here on a day to day basis,
you are finding ways to grow yourself personally and professionally.
Whether that's watching YouTube videos,
reading books,
or taking online classes,
you're also leveraging the proactive projects that you're
identifying and taking on as skills builders.
As you become proactive in the work that you do and gaining new knowledge,
you'll probably also find yourself checking off the next sign
that you're ready to get promoted.
And that's that you're mentoring and training others
you are the go to person on the team with any questions.
If someone doesn't know what to do,
whether it's using a software,
fixing a customer issue,
or how to proceed in a project,
they're coming to you.
This might be the reputation that you have established on
the team because everyone knows you're so awesome at what you do
that you've naturally stepped into this leadership role on the team.
This also might be a formal thing
your boss might have acknowledge all of what you're bringing to the table,
perhaps they've asked you to mentor new team members
or to train your co workers on that process improvement you
proactively implemented. See how these things all fit together
more so than those two things, though,
you found that you have really enjoyed stepping into
the mentorship role that you love supporting and
guiding junior members on the team and helping them succeed in their role.
And that's a big part of people management
and getting to the next level of your career.
In addition to providing training and mentoring on your team,
there's probably another shift that you've noticed
when you're ready to get promoted, which brings us to
the fourth sign that you are promotion ready,
you become a big picture thinker.
Early in my career, one of my mentors explain the different
evels of perspective that you need across your career.
So when you're in the earlier stages in your career,
and when you're an individual contributor,
that means you don't have anyone reporting to you,
you're operating in the details, the 30 foot to 300 foot range.
But when you step into management,
you're going to level up and you're starting to take the perspective of 3000 feet up,
whereas the CEO is flying it like 30,000 feet,
you've increasingly found yourself upscaling that perspective.
For example, when you take on a new project,
you're not just thinking about the project in context of the project.
You're thinking about the project in context of the success to the organization,
what it means going forward.
And you're not just thinking about what do I need to do this week,
you started thinking about what should I be doing next quarter
and the quarter after that, because of the shift,
you'll probably also find that you meet the fifth sign that you're
ready to get promoted at work,
you've increased your visibility and your influence at your company,
people at the senior and executive leadership level have
started to take notice your boss's boss's boss is aware of your work.
And in addition to your co workers on your team coming to you asking for help,
you've probably also found that you've become a go to resource for
other people in the organization or you've established
cross functional relationships within your company
that have made you more impactful in the work that you do.
And this isn't just made me more known within the organization.
It's also made you a connector,
you've become someone who can make things happen at this stage.
The scale and level of the work that you're doing has
a strategic high impact and even if your boss isn't bragging about
you to their boss and their boss's boss, your work has become unignorable
so even if your boss isn't supporting your promotion,
it's going to happen anyways,
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This next time that you're ready to get promoted is actually a prerequisite
in an increasing number of companies, especially if you work in the tech industry.
However, a lot of people are giving a lot of bad career advice on the internet
telling you not to do it for when you do this,
not only are you ready to get promoted,
it probably means you're going to be promoted,
you're already operating at the next level,
there has been an increasing trend that requires people to
operate at the level higher than which they are before they
actually got the new job title, a new paper rocket,
one big tech company that I worked out, we literally all had a job.
It was like
Congratulations, you have the job title that matches your job now
and then six months later, they would be ready for the next promotion.
The motivation for doing so isn't to exploit employees,
it's actually to combat Peters principle.
And if you're not familiar with Peters principle
is that people rise to the level of their incompetence in the organization.
Have you ever worked with a leader that was in a position
that they really weren't qualified for?
And they particularly were not competent at?
If so you have witnessed Peters principle in practice.
Say that three times fast:
(1) Peter's principle and practice
(2) Peters principle and practice
(3) Peters principle and practice.
It did it!
When we look at the leveling and calibration processes
at companies such as Google, Meta, and the like,
they're not assessing how good you are at your actual job
as the criteria to get to the next level,
they're assessing if you're actually operating at that next level before
you are at that next level, because they don't want to promote
people that aren't going to be successful in the role.
And if you're not successful in that promotion level role,
you're not going to get demoted,
you're going to get managed out of the company.
Not ideal.
So ask yourself this question:
what does my boss do and how much of my job can look like that?
Or how much of my job already looks like that?
And if you're already operating at that level,
whether it's a jump into a senior level role or into a management role,
the more established you are in that, the more likely you are
to actually get the promotion. And this brings me to the seventh sign
that you're ready to get promoted.
And that is your boss's grooming you for a promotion.
When this happens, it is basically in the bag because
your boss might even create that specific opportunity for you to
step right into without ever having to apply.
This is the best way to get promoted because
you're not dealing with competition.
You're not dealing with promotion interviews,
you're not dealing with the stress of
am I gonna get it?
Because it's literally been created for you.
One caveat with this sign is that it does depend on your boss
really choosing you and you even being their favorite
if you haven't checked this one off yet and you want
to get on your boss's good side so that they say what for promotion,
go and watch this video right now to dig into it.