Career Success: Fast-tracking your Career Promotion.

How to get promoted fast in any job - Where to start, how to ask and how to successfully land it.

Created byVenugopal Muvvala

Last updated 12/2022

English

What you'll learn

You will learn what actually gets you the promotion.
The unwritten rules about promotion that nobody tells you at your workplace.
Homework you have to do before you ask for your promotion.
Build a strong case for your promotion.
When and how to bring up the conversation with your boss about your promotion. You will learn how to ask and how to self-promote.

Course content

4 sections • 8 lectures • 43m total length

Be careful what you wish for.2:54
We all have to learn that people are not promoted just because they think they deserve it or they are ready, but it depends on variety of factors. The sooner we realize this, the happier we'll be with the way our careers are progressing.

The Unwritten Rules that govern promotions.3:11
In most organizations, promotions are governed by unwritten rules — the often fuzzy, intuitive, and poorly expressed feelings of your management regarding your ability to succeed in your role. Many of these rules are hard to nail down because they don’t pertain to technical ability, industry experience, or business knowledge. Rather, they relate to the “soft” skills that combine to give decision makers a natural sense of whether a candidate will succeed at the senior level.
DOs & DON'Ts: The Non-negotiables, Unacceptables and the Desirables.11:32
In this lesson, you will learn the DOs and DONTs when you want to land your promotion. You will the unwritten rules that no company usually lists them and provides to their employees. You will learn - 1. The competencies that are expected out of you that are non-negotiable to be considered for a promotion. 2. The unacceptables that otherwise eliminates a qualified candidate from consideration and 3. The Desirables - the desired behaviours that dictate promotion decision.

Planning and Taking Action.4:10
In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the actions you need to take to land your promotion, plan and schedule your actions. If you are failing to plan, then it is as good as planning to fail.
Asking for promotion out of the blue.5:31
To advance in your career, you’ll need to learn to advocate for yourself. There is a degree of self-promotion that’s needed. Put simply - if you don’t ask, you may not get. In this lesson, you will learn how to prepare for the conversation with your managers and ask for your promotion.

Building a strong case for your Promotion.6:21
When it's time for discussing specifically about your promotion, you have to document your achievements and build your case. You cannot assume your boss would be aware of all your achievements. You have to build a compelling case for why you deserve to be moved up. In this lesson, you will learn how to build your case for the promotion.
Asking, Advocating and Self-Promoting.6:19
In this lesson, you will learn how to initiate a conversation with your manager/boss about your promotion. You will learn how to prepare for the conversation, and how to put it across to your boss. You will know the possible outcomes of the conversation and how you will have to deal with them.
When you are passed for the promotion.3:25
Getting denied for a promotion can make you feel terrible, may be even angry. But the fact is, no matter how valuable you are, promotions rarely happen overnight. It does not necessarily mean that your boss doesn't like you, or that the company doesn't recognize your contributions. It's vital that you don't demonstrate your displeasure. Else, it will affect your performance, job satisfaction and also the relationship with your boss. In the lesson, you will learn how to not let your emotions get to you.

Requirements

There are no requirements or prerequisites for taking this course. You can take this course even if you think you are not ready for the promotion yet, as long you want to grow your career.

Description

This course is for anyone that is struggling to get promoted and for those who are believe they are ready for the next promotion but are not sure how to initiate a constructive conversation with their managers about their promotion.

After finishing the course, you will learn and be able to do the following.

1. You will learn the possible reasons why you are not getting promoted, though you think you are ready for it.

2. While performance, skills and hard work are important, they are only the qualifiers for the promotion, but not necessarily make you a contender for the promotion. There are unwritten rules for getting considered for the promotion that not all companies make a list and provides to their employees.

You will learn what those rules are

a. The competencies that are expected out of you that are non-negotiable to be considered for a promotion.

b. The unacceptables that otherwise eliminates you from consideration and

c. The Desirables - the desired behaviours that dictate promotion decisions.

3. Once you know what those rules are, you will be able to figure out the gaps that are holding you back from moving up.

4. You will know when it the right time to initiate a conversation with your managers about your promotion and how to ask for your promotion.

5. You will also be able to build a compelling case for your promotion.

6. And in case, you are passed for the promotion, you will know how to deal with it and what are the next steps.

Who this course is for:

This course is most useful to mid-level career professionals. However, this course is also useful to senior level professionals, that are stuck in their career and to step on the gas with their upward mobility. .

Career Success: Fast-tracking your Career Promotion.

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 3min

The Unwritten Rules and the DOs and DON'Ts.2 lectures • 15min

Where to start, What to do?2 lectures • 10min

Building a strong case for your Promotion.3 lectures • 16min

Requirements

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