- Are you (bleep)ing up your own promotion?
Hey what's up,
if you've been working towards your next promotion
but you haven't made that up level in your career
even though you're doing all of the right things,
hang out, because in this video
I'm gonna cover three strategies to help get you promoted.
And just in case you haven't met me yet,
my name is Jennifer Brick,
and I'm a career success catalyst here at Capdeca Solutions.
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All right, to get into it.
I work with super talented
and highly ambitious professionals who've been trying
to get to that up level in their career,
but for some reason it's just not happening.
Now this is a video so I can't tell you exactly
what your stuck point is personally,
but I can tell you that there are three strategy tweaks
that people can make to help accelerate their career
and get to that next level
and on the path to the corner office.
Psst, you're gonna wanna stay to number three,
no one does number three.
Tip number one is stop overachieving
in the role that you're in
and start preparing for the next level.
This is one of the mistakes
that I see made most frequently.
Most people, especially women
when they're ready for that up level
dig in their heels and start super overachieving
in the role that they're in.
And while that's great in theory,
it's not the way that most promotions
are actually going to happen.
You're going to get promoted, not because you're good
at what you do, you're gonna get promoted
because of the potential in the next role.
And how you demonstrate your potential?
Well, you find a way to make impact
and demonstrate that you have the skills and capabilities
that are required for you to succeed at that next level.
So finding ways to demonstrate impact is really important,
so these are the things that are going to move the needle
in terms of revenue, in terms of KPI,
then in terms of goal achievement for your organization.
So what you need to do is you need to learn
how to identify the strategic priorities,
what's important to your manager,
what's important to their manager
and what's most important to your company
and how you can actually drive that forward.
And once you've got that one squared away
it's time for tip number two which
is to market yourself strategically.
This is one of the things
that the women that I work with struggle with the most
and that is actually promoting themselves.
Cause here's the thing, especially if you're female,
you probably think that you have two options.
One is you self-promote and no one likes you
because you're full of yourself and we probably
know someone like that in the office and you might think
she's a little bit of a bee with an itch.
Option number two is that you don't self-promote
and that you assume eventually someone's gonna notice,
and this is the path that I see most women taking.
And you already know the problem with this strategy,
number one, people never notice,
number two, someone else might notice and then
they come along and they take the credit for what you do
and that leads into problem number three with this strategy,
is they get the recognition as well as the promotion
that you deserve for what you do.
What most people don't see
is that there's actually a third option here
and that is to actually market yourself
by having others market you for you.
Honestly this is the gold standard for self-promotion,
it doesn't get better than this
because it doesn't require you
to actually promote yourself at all.
What it requires is tip number three,
developing your network of advocates.
Now I know that you've heard about
how important mentors and sponsors are,
and I'm not here to mansplain to you
why you need these people.
In fact you've probably been trying to get them,
you've been probably following a lot of really terrible
advice in how you actually acquire this network,
but what you haven't been told
is that it's more than mentors and sponsors that you need,
you need a full network of advocates.
Your network of advocates includes your mentors and sponsors
but it also includes other people
that are going to advantalize, advocate
and connect you with oppurtunities.
Think of your network of advocates as building
up your fan base at the office,
as well as within your industry if you're looking
to broaden the scope of what you do,
get some recognition and maybe even become
a little bit of a target for headhunters.
Your network of advocates is going to be expansive,
it's gonna grow throughout your career
and it's been the key that unlocks
each of my clients accelerate in their career.
Doesn't that sound good?
If this is something that you're trying to achieve,
if you really wanna accelerate your career,
the thing is, and this is a bonus tip,
you have to completely transform the strategies
that you're using, because they're not gonna work.
You can bang your head against the wall
doing the same things that you've been doing,
that haven't been successful,
but insanity is doing the same thing over and over
and expecting a different result.
If you have high aspirations for your career,
if you're dreaming of the c-suite,
you need to completely change the way
that you're approaching your career strategy.
And the way that you can do that
is by implementing the strategies that I use
with my clients, if you want a preview
of what those strategies are and how you can begin
applying them to your career today,
you can actually go check out my free masterclass,
the five breakthroughs to get promoted
and smash the glass ceiling.
This master is full of full of values.
Its 35 minutes, you can watch it when you want
when you register, I'm gonna send you a link
and it's going to allow you to watch it
at your convenience because I know that
maybe now's not a good time,
maybe you're watching this with the subtitles on at work.
But what I can promise you
is that this is going to be the best 35 minutes
that you've ever invested in your professional development
because it is literally the starting point
to put you on the path to the corner office.
You can check it out at masterclass.capdecasolutions.com.
And I wanna know,
what have you been trying in order to get ahead?
What level are you aspiring to?
Let me know in the comments down below.
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I put out new videos every Tuesday,
I'll see you in the next one, bye.