Get a Promotion 15: Put It All Together to Get a Promotion

This concludes our series on how to get a promotion on your current job

We discussed, analyzed, and reviewed how to get a promotion. We outlined four key steps to impress management to give you the promotion. We defined additional actions that will help you accomplish the four key steps. Today, we will summarize and pull all the actions and steps into a workable career plan.

Create a Plan to Get a Promotion

You plan for a promotion by examining options that appeal to you within the company:

• Explore either upward or lateral promotions to positions with more respect, responsibility, or pay.
• Talk to people in the organization about positions that interest you.
• Discover what they think of them what they like about those teams, and any concerns they may have.
• Identify what skills, responsibilities, performance, or expectations exist for the jobs.
• Outline skills that you may need to get the promotion
• Identify training, mentoring, or apprenticeship methods to gain the skills
• Search for educational reimbursements or other ways to pay for training
• Use the principles we outlined in previous posts to plan how to
• Meet management’s expectations of your current job
• Exceed their expectations for your productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality
• Prepare a graph to monitor your improvements

Implement and Monitor Your Plan

Implement your plan with the help of your mentors and internal network of contacts.

• Enroll in the training and let your mentor and network of contacts tutor you
• Do the things you planned that would improve your performance and productivity
• Mark your graph with management’s expectations, your target & actual performance
• Communicate them to management with home run statements
• First base=what division, company, or job you were working at
• Second base=what you did to create the improvement or increase
• Third base=the results of your actions using #s, %s, and  $s
• Home plate=the savings or revenues applied to the company

Plan to impress management by improving your performance. Increase your performance by implementing your plan. Communicate your successes to management with home run statements.

Monday we examine factors that decreased wealth of the middle class by 43%