Ten Ways to Make Yourself Promotable
Earn the Promotion: Figure out what your boss wants and needs without actually asking. Is advancement based on performance, creativity, leadership, attention to detail, extra hours on the job? Objectively analyze why others have been recently promoted. Based on your fact-finding, showcase these qualities.
Ask What You Can Do to Make Yourself More Valuable: When speaking with your boss, you might say “I love my job and I love what I am doing. I want to grow with the company. What can I do to make myself more valuable?”
Look, Act and Dress the Part: Dress and look like an executive. Improve your grammar and speaking/language patterns. Interact with others in management. Learn more about your company. Improve your business manners. Show respect through your body language and congruency of words.
Keep Records of Your Accomplishments: Quantify your stellar performance in writing (particularly how it affects the bottom-line.) it is difficult for a boss to dispute your worth and value to the company when you can show hard data of your contributions and the savings you created through your dedication and projects.
Show Initiative: You must show initiative beyond your specific and assigned duties, indicating that you can easily handle additional responsibilities.
Volunteer: Offer to stay late, assist your boss or team members.
Further Your Training: Sign up for in-house seminars your company is offering. Take additional college or university course.
Visibility: Write articles for trade journals, get published or be interviewed by the press. Compete for professional awards offered by your company. Get involved in civic and philanthropic activities that your company supports.
Find Yourself a Mentor: Establish a relationship with someone you admire in the company. Ask them to be your mentor.
Ambassador Skills: Remember that you are on display from the minute your drive in to the company parking lot. People make judgments about you based on what they see, sense and feel. Look, act and speak like an ambassador for yourself, your company and your country.
Remember, you must establish a relationship with the person giving the promotion.
Ten Ways to Make Yourself Promotable - To learn more about this author, visit Gloria Starr's Website.
Like this article? Share it with your friends
 |
Related Articles |
|
 Ten Ways to Make Yourself Promotable
|
| |
Being promotable may be easier than you think!
|
|
“I wish I could just stop the negative thoughts!”
|
| |
We all wrestle with negative thoughts. However, they're deadliest in the mind of a business owner because bad thoughts are like dirty fuel in a car. It'll stall your engine at best. Find out tools to fight the dem...
|
|
How to Sell Green & Increase Sales
|
| |
Are you looking at the world around you and discovering ways to increase your sales? If not, why not? You are surrounded by opportunities all day everyday if you’ll just open your eyes and ears and put them to wor...
|
|
Stealth Market Research & Google Movies
|
| |
 I love stealth market research -- that is, unusual ways of figuring out what companies and competitors are doing. There are all sorts of ways of doing this sort of thing, from counting cars in company parking lots o...
|
|
Proper Usage of Web Site Redirects in SEO
|
| |
The main reason to redirect anyone to another site or another page on a web site is because a page and or web site has moved. The redirect may point to another site or a subdirectory. You may also have different do...
|
 |
Related Businesses - Evan Elite Authors |
|
The Evan Elite Authors program is currently in beta phase. For details please contact us.
|
|
|
Gloria Starr
(Visit Gloria's Website)
Gloria Starr, President and Founder of
Global Success Strategies, Inc.
Established 1983. www.gloriastar
r.com
Areas of expertise include impression
management, business and dining etiquette
and communication skills.
Ms. Starr has been recognized by the
United States Government as a consultant
of extraordinary ability and talent and
ranked in the top 5% of consultants
worldwide.
The Society for the Advancement of
Consulting awarded Ms. Starr "Excellence
in Consulting and Coaching."
Clients include Hunt Oil, Seagate
Technology, Oracle, Hunt Refining, Levi
Strauss, Automation Technologies, Procter
and Gamble, the United States Pentagon,
the United States Army, United Gulf Steel,
Destiny's Child, Cunard Cruise Lines,
Princess Cruise Lines and the Hong Kong
and Canadian Board of Trade
Her trademarked programs the Executive
Finishing School, the Modern Day Finishing
School and the Professional Athletes
School have been conducted worldwide.
|
|
|
|
![[Get Copyright Permissions]](http://license.icopyright.net/images/icopy-w.gif){kind=small}
