How to Get Promoted and Succeed at Work

Name: How to Get Promoted and Succeed at Work
Rating: 4.7 (25 reviews)

Move up the Ladder, Career Management, Networking, Manage Your Boss, Interview Skills, Management Skills, Leadership

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Created byPaul Sloane

Last updated 8/2025

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What you'll learn

How to gain promotion at work.
How to move up the career ladder
When to move up, move across or move out.
How to show management potential
What leadership qualities you need to display.
Common mistakes to avoid
Networking skills
How to shine at interview
How to manage your boss
What to do when you get Stuck

Course content

4 sections • 20 lectures • 2h 5m total length

Getting Started8:39
Start by doing your current job well, clarify expectations, set objectives, seek feedback, and make your achievements visible to unlock promotion opportunities.
Manage Your Boss4:41
Manage your boss by aligning your work with their objectives and motivations, seeking mutual success. Discuss promotion openly, build a professional relationship at work, and cultivate a friendly rapport outside.
Get Noticed4:21
Get noticed by excelling at your work, volunteering for assignments, and presenting ideas across organizations. Become an ideas carrier by understanding others' needs, expanding industry knowledge, and offering constructive suggestions.
Working From Home7:05
Set up a professional home workspace with the right equipment and lighting, establish a routine, and actively participate in meetings to raise your profile while maintaining communication and taking breaks.

Network12:55
Learn to grow your career by mastering networking, leveraging weak ties, attending events, and using LinkedIn for connections, recommendations, and follow-up.
Have a Career Plan5:04
Create a written multi-year career plan to guide growth through your 20s and 30s, building skills in sales, marketing, or finance, and moving up or across.
Shine at Interview13:48
Learn to navigate internal and external job applications, tailor letters, master STAR stories, and shine at interviews by building rapport, handling competency questions, and asking strategic questions.
Great Questions to Ask at Interview3:45
Why Should We Give the Job to You?2:07
Use the why, what, how approach to show you solve the interviewer’s problems. Explain what you can do and how you would do it to boost profitability.
Display Management Potential5:26
Discover how to display management potential by building trust, coaching others, delegating, and collaborating to move teams forward, guided by emotional intelligence and fair leadership.
A Success Secret2:22
Volunteer to present at department meetings to explain projects, set a clear purpose, signpost your talk, and invite feedback. This practice raises your profile and demonstrates communication and leadership potential.
Three Great Questions to ask Your Boss3:29
Ask your boss three great questions to advance your career. Define the ideal relationship, take on tasks from their in-tray, and specify what you must show to qualify for promotion.

Learn Management Skills10:38
Develop essential management skills by balancing task, individual, and team needs, listening, coaching, and empowering, while delegating, avoiding micromanagement, and applying SMART goals.
Show Leadership Qualities6:52
Demonstrate leadership qualities to earn promotion by inspiring followers, showing integrity, and making decisive, confident decisions. Lead with a vision, fairness, warmth, and humility while delegating and transforming the organization.
What to do when you get Stuck - the 8 P Plan7:36
Discover the eight point plan to move from feeling stuck to progress at work and in personal projects by pausing, picturing success, prioritizing, pruning, planning, pushing through, protecting, and praising.
The Eight Books You Must Read6:20
Eight business books teach you to work with people and succeed in business, including how to win friends and influence people, influence, seven habits, and good to great.
Six Reasons why you are not Fulfilling your Potential5:18
Boost your career by building strong self-belief, setting written goals, leaving your comfort zone, increasing your work rate, focusing on high value actions, and networking with high achievers.
Two Questions to Discover your Weaknesses1:29
Discover your weaknesses with two questions: what am I good at and where could I improve; use one-on-one conversations to gain candid feedback, especially for managers addressing micromanagement.

Summary and Five Magic Phrases11:04
Learn how to get promoted by delivering results, forging a strong boss relationship, getting noticed through volunteering and networking, and planning your career while applying five practical magic phrases.
Bonus Lecture2:14
Explore lateral thinking, innovation, and brainstorming methods—Six Thinking Hats, the Disney method, and problem analysis techniques—for career advancement and better job prospects.
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Description

Do you want a successful career? Are you ambitious for advancement - all the way to the top? How can you maximise your chances of being promoted at work and moving up the corporate hierarchy? This course gives you invaluable tips and advice on how to advance your career within and across organisations. It covers key points including networking, managing your boss, getting noticed, interview skills, setting a plan, and showing management and leadership potential. Seize opportunities and achieve your full potential with this course. It is packed with tips, advice and guidance to help you succeed. It even includes five magic phrases which help you to persuade people and get them to like you.

This course is aimed at people who are ambitious to succeed in business. Whether you are a student or a business professional in a small or large organisation you need to master these key skills. You need to learn the tricks which get you noticed. You need to develop your expertise but that is not enough. You have to demonstrate that you can work well with people. You must show management potential. You need to shine at interview. You need to know when to stay and when to move on. This course covers these topics in depth.

Who this course is for:

Professionals
Students
Business Executives
Managers

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Introduction - Getting Started4 lectures • 25min

Moving Up8 lectures • 49min

Management and Leadership6 lectures • 38min

Summary2 lectures • 13min

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