Getting promoted comes with a lot of encouragement and morale-boosting. The absence of
promotion could be frustrating and weakening, especially when you’re due for it.
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However, there are several reasons why your promotion seems to be delayed. You wonder often that your contemporaries and your juniors have gone ahead of you. Such as situation can be discouraging. But if you’re either long due or you want to simply fast-track your promotion, here are 5 super strategies top performers adopt which you can apply.
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Keep Giving More Value
If you want to fast-track your promotion keep giving value beyond your jurisdictional role. Employers value employees who’re always proving themselves to be indispensable. Skill up if you need to. Your employer needs results and the best way to be a result-giver is by being resourceful. Beyond desk work, take extracurricular roles such as chairing a committee on fundraising, company website design, conference, etc. With this, you’re getting noticed for promotion by your employer.
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Study Those With Track Record Of Rapid Promotion
Study the traits, work ethics,
habits and achievements of those who have shown a track record of successive promotions within a short period. Study what they do, how they do it, and how they carry themselves around the workplace. For example, if you notice that Mr A is getting promoted rapidly because he’s always leading an initiative within the company, it means you’ll also try to be an initiator of things.
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Ask Your Boss For feedback
Find out from your employer if you’re doing well in the
workplace. Have an honest conversation, maybe during a break, where you truly ask for his feedback. Ask if he’s satisfied with work within the office. If the answer is in the negative, it calls for improvement on your part. But if your employer is truly pleased with the work ethics and other contributions you’ve made towards the growth of the business, you humbly ask him for a promotion. You can write this through a cover letter, listing your achievements and roles.
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Court Attention With Your Selling Points
Let people get to know you as a value giver, volunteer and initiator. Don’t live an understated status within the workplace. You’ll do yourself a great disservice to play small when you’re actually big. When there’s a task that must be done, do not keep calm or avoid the task altogether. Volunteer to do the job. Volunteer to lead committees, projects and the likes. You’re getting noticed and possibly preparing yourself for promotion. Also, you can gain visibility when you frequently check on your employer to find out if you can be of any help or assistance.
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Be Your Boss’ Right Hand Person
Learn to be one who is always trying to ease the workload on your employer. Try to make things flowing and cost-effective; this is a way to get noticed on time for promotion.
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