You have been passed over for promotions
even though you were doing all of the right things.
You're great at your job
and overachieving on everything.
You work SO hard.
(That means all the time.)
But there's a few reasons why your boss
will never promote you until
you know the three things that I'm
about to share with you in this video.
If you are ready to learn what they are
and advance your career, tap that like button,
and let's jump straight into it.
The first reason your boss is not going to
promote you is because
you're an indispensable player,
you work harder than anyone else in your team.
In fact, your results are lifting the entire team up,
The whole thing would fall apart without you.
And not only would your team's
performance metrics suffe, if you weren't there,
absolutely crushing it,
you are an extremely consistent performer
who is adding to the key performance metrics
that matter to your team.
So if another team member misses their numbers,
your boss knows that they can count on you.
And that's why your boss knows that
if you moved on to another role,
you would truly be irreplaceable,
which sounds like a good thing...
until it's the thing keeping you stuck.
For example, how many of you have bragged
about the fact that when you've
moved on from a role, the company
had to hire more than one person to replace you.
And while this sounds awesome to brag about,
what it really means is that you are doing
such great work that you are doing
the work of multiple people.
When you are doubling the impact of
any other person on your team, chances are,
you're also so busy getting those results that
you're not leading.
You're not stepping up into the next role.
The thing is, is that the higher you climb
on the corporate ladder, the less work
you're actually going to do.
I don't think that's gonna surprise any of you.
The thing is, is when you get into
a management position,
and as you grow as a leader,
increasingly, you're facilitating work happening,
as opposed to doing the actual work.
So when your strength is doing the actual job,
it disconnects you from the next level job.
Ask yourself: are people coming to you
for leadership for mentorship?
Or are your teammates only coming to you
to dump tasks onto you,
because they know that you'll take care of it.
Now, it might be that your team is looking to you
for leadership and for help for them to succeed.
And that leads us into the next reason
why your boss might not be promoting you.
And that's that they're threatened by you.
Especially if your boss is an Avery,
which makes so much more sense when
you've watched my villains work video.
They know how brightly you can shine,
and it's blinding them.
One thing to consider to figure out if your boss is
threatened by you is if you were promoted,
would you be promoted to the same level at them?
Would you be becoming their peer?
Not only would this make you their competition,
it would also decrease the size of their empire.
And if they're the empire building type,
they would much rather have you do the work
and have them get the credit for it
while maintaining the size of their empire.
One of the things that I've observed in
a lot of insecure managers and insecure leaders
is that when they have a high potential
extremely talented team member like you
is that they are afraid that that team member
is going to outpace them.
That instead of getting the next promotion,
you'll get their promotion instead.
Or maybe when you rise it will
expose just how incompetent of a leader they are.
And really what this is exposing is their insecurity
and their lack of a leadership mindset.
Because great leaders know that the success
and career advancement of their teams is
a testament to their exceptional leadership.
While I could rant a while about this fallacy
and leadership, I think this is a good segue
for us to dig into the third reason
why you're not getting promoted when you deserve it.
And this my friends is going to be a truth bomb.
Meritocracy is a myth,
and being great at your job does not get you promoted.
And this is going to be a whole rant from me.
To break this down effectively,
we need to start with the basics.
What is a meritocracy?
There was a great article a few years ago
in the Atlantic that broke down the fallacies
of a meritocracy and in it it defined meritocracy
as a system that rewards merits both ability
and effort with success.
But does merit create success.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this question.
I'm about to ask our top performers,
the ones who get promoted.
Well, if you're a top performer and y
ou aren't getting promoted, you know that isn't true.
Does it mean it never happens?
No, of course not.
And of course there are companies that
have systems in place that move the high performers
with high potential forward.
But we're talking in generalities here today.
Now on the other hand of this definition,
we talk about effort.
And when we talk about effort,
we're talking about working hard,
which you know is one of my favorite topics.
Because what working hard generally means
is that you're working a lot of hours.
Is it the people who work the most hours
who get ahead in life?
Some of the people whose careers have stagnated
the most are the people who were putting in
the most hours and spinning their wheels.
And if working hard,
ie working a lot
is what was required to get you ahead...
then why is slacker Chad getting promoted?
He's barely working at all.
Your ability and effort in many cases will not be
what advances your career.
And this is where we need to learn from Slacker Chad.
While we can hate the corporate politics
and all the games required to climb the corporate ladder,
in my opinion,
the way we change the game
is by playing the game
and getting ourselves into positions of power.
And that's what we need to learn from Chad.
He utilizes three extremely powerful
career advancement tactics.
I want you to go to this video right now
and find out what they are.
But before you go if you enjoyed this video
if it helps you understand why
you're being passed over for promotion,
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Win win situation.
As always my friend thank you so much for watching.
I will see you in the next video.
Bye for now!