Getting that next job promotion requires a promotion strategy. Here are some key strategies. Are they necessary? Moves up the ladder seldom just happen. Unless you manage to have your company keep an eye on you. Here are your steps to making it happen and enjoy career success.
1) Create a Job Promotion Plan: Know where you want to go on the career ladder. Once you know, look at your situation from the top down. Examine all he steps you need to take to reach that upper level – training, education – from where you are. They you’ll have a road map to follow!
2) Express your goals: Tell your superior what your career hopes are. Tell him how you intend to reach that star, and ask him if he’ll guide and teach you. He’ll be flattered that your trust his judgment. If you don’t express where you want to go, no one will know!
3) Tell Human Resources: Also ask your superior if he would mind your expressing your hopes to the Human Resources chieftain. No one can express your hopes and dreams as well as you, with no details left out. The HR officer will then have the company overview re what your ambitions are, when promotion spots come up.
4) Learn to Manage: Management involves a different skill set compared to working for someone. You’ll l have more responsibility, but often less control. You have to be able to motivate and control people to do the job, get the results. Don’t wait until you get the management job, and then try to learn management skills too late, and fail!
5) Network to the top: Networking internally in your company necessitates getting to know the key players and having them think well of you. Attend all the semi-business social functions, offer to participate in every extra business effort you can comfortably handle. Based on what they see, you might find some these key figures want you in their department when the next job promotion opens up.
6) Create an accomplishment list: Constantly keep a brief list showing how you achieved your personal performance goals this year. Include accomplishments you were not asked to do and which your boss may not be aware of. Give your superior the list at your next performance review. Ask if he would mind sending a copy to Human Resources for your file. The more everyone knows about what you achieved, the better your chances of being considered for promotion.
7) Cultivate composure: Company’s usually promote people to higher positions who don’t lose their temper, are in control of themselves, and express themselves without ranting. Be yourself, laugh and enjoy. But Learn to keep yourself under control, through exercise to reduce stress, calm thinking, and meditation techniques if need be.
8) Keep learning: In today’s tech society, current skills and knowledge are disappearing at a faster rate than anytime in the past century. You need to keep learning, and stay on top of the learning curve for your entire working career. You don’t want to be like the secretaries who a short time ago were valued if they could take shorthand, type quickly, and were efficient. Today they are unemployable if they can’t use computer software. Soon they might not be needed either as computers can now take voice dictation and transfer it into print.
9) Golf is not a game: Some top executives say they make more deals o n the golf course in a relaxed, open manner – even though it’s a business situation – then they do pounding out dictates in the board room. Even if you don’t play well, as least be involved. Golf is part of the communication job promotion plan from America to Japan! Learning tennis is a good idea too! It’s exploding as a business sport.
10) Don’t end run: End runs are the kiss of death if you go around your superior to a higher power to ask his/her advice or complain. It’s breaking your loyalty oath to the person paying your paycheck. It usually leads to dismissal, as no boss will put up with a snake in his woodpile.
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