Want to get promoted and keep moving up the ladder of success? Well I’ve got news for you. You’re not going to do it by just doing a great job at your normal expected job responsibilities. Your superiors are looking for someone to push upward, not maintain what they already do well.
The common misconception most people have is that if they do a great job, they will get a promotion (or a good evaluation). The truth is, your boss expects you to do your job well. That’s just basic elementary stuff, the simplest of expectations.
If you want to move on to the next level, you have to start showing that you can do your job well and take on additional tasks and responsibilities. You have to make your basic job expectations look like they require no effort on your part at all. You have to create an environment where you present a lot of value to the company, but that you really aren’t needed in your current position anymore.
What kind of sense does that make? Well, if you are so good at what you do and you have the people that work for you to the point where they are so good they can basically do your job, it does nothing but make you look good.
When you reach this point, your boss has little reason not to promote you. You have created a demand for your abilities, and shown that you can evolve and are ready to take on the next challenge in your career. You have demonstrated that you are a key leader in your establishment.
Skills like public speaking and computer abilities are great to have, but there is one constant in the world of business. Your ability to deal with people and develop them. Without it you will never succeed in anything that you do.
Your people can make you or break you. You don’t necessarily want them to like you or dislike you, you just want them to respect you as their leader.
So start performing the job that you WANT to have now. And show your boss that you can do it with ease and minimal effort. Then they have no choice but to give you what you want.
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