I share 7 secrets to progress your career quickly.
You probably know many people that work really hard, do a good job yet don’t seem to get promoted. Getting promoted is like playing a game – once you know the rules, playing the games gets a lot easier and you get promoted.
Advancing your career does take hard work, yet hard work alone is not enough. You have to work smartly too and work out what skills and experience are needed for the next level up and proactively seek out this experience.
Progressing your career is helped a lot if you have a clear career goal. You are putting your efforts into areas that matter in getting to a single goal rather than not making the best use of your efforts because you are not sure where you are heading.
To progress you career, you need to do a good job. Doing a good job is the entry point to getting promoted. How you do your job and meeting or exceed your objectives is equally important and I give you a list of = behaviours that help.
Drive your career progress forward by ensuring that everyone’s perception of you fits in with the level you are trying to get promoted into. Fitting in is crucial.
Your career progress is influenced heavily by your manager. With a strong relationship with you manager, your career will progress much quicker. A poor relationship and you will be lucky to see any progress. Proactively build a good relationship with your manager.
When thinking about how to get promoted at work, the strength of your relationships with your manager’s peer and their managers is also important. This group will be deciding who get promoted. If they know and like you, your chances of promotion at work are a lot higher.
Finally, choosing the play the game takes effort and a willingness to push yourself out of your comfort zone, learn and adapt. Getting promoted also means giving things up that have a personal impact. Continuing to learn and adapt requires drive, ambition, and motivation. How are you going to increase these for the right reasons?
Proactively manage your career progress by working to give yourself the best chance of promotion at work.
00:00 Intro
01:31 Working Hard is Not Enough
03:19 Set Yourself a Career Goal and Create a Plan
04:37 Doing a Good Job is the Entry Point
06:00 Perception is Reality
07:38 Your Manager is Critical
09:29 Relationships Matter – Build Them
11:03 Choose to Play the Game
13:22 In Summary
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