Increase Your Visibility to the Right People at Work

We share this tip to help you earn the biggest raises and the best promotions

Increasing your visibility at work enhances your consideration for better promotions and higher raises. Managers promote people they know, like, and trust to provide solid return on investments. In other words, they must know you to promote you. Increasing visibility lets more people know you.

Do a Good Job

Increase your visibility at work by doing a good job—and more.

• Find ways to help others and your boss
• Continually improve your skills.
• Share your abilities with others
• Seek out assignments and projects that allow you to contribute to improving the organization
• Network with others in the organization to learn more
• Ask questions to learn more and explore ways to improve
• Observe what others do on the job and imitate their best practices
• Communicate the results of your efforts to your supervisor and others with home run statements. Home Run Statements contain four parts related to a baseball field:
• 1st Base: State the company or division you benefited
• 2nd Base: Briefly explain what action you took to solve the problem
• 3rd Base: Outline the results and benefits of your actions
• Home Plate: Verify that your results met the desired outcome

Seek to Improve the Organization

Avoid self-serving motives to improve your visibility. Self-serving motives taint the good you do. People will label you as a brownnoser, kiss-up, or worse.

Truly seek the improvement of the organization in your efforts. Sincerely seek to make your boss look good and to increase the productivity, effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of the organization. That means you must change your focus from yourself to the organization.

Friday we will review what Clayton Christensen and Jeff Dyer call The Innovator’s DNA