to work hard, is not enough: 4 ways to score a promotion

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By Marc Yeager

That is, you should not waste your manager you trust help get a promotion. It has to do with their own advancement in the company, and look the work of its employees to do their work well for this purpose. Consider making your own progression occurs in the context of its work on the day of the day , and there is only one person who can help you: you. These effectively so, you have to follow your work and results in a conscious way, and knowing when and how to move your agenda.

1. Keep track of your performance. Depending on your preference, select Word or Excel and start a diary of your services. Draft note or dates of the event, a brief description of what has worked and what came out of it. If you can quantify the parts of these descriptions in no way do so. If you receive thanks and congratulations Notes email, successfully save these files in a folder on your computer. You can choose instead to consolidate and to copy and paste it into a Word file success record. If you receive this correspondence on paper, scan it and save in this folder.

2. professional development you have a file or a separate tab in Excel -. Keep table to record their educational efforts. track of dates, names and locations of the courses on training for work and current events. If you obtain certificates or licenses have, put the history of success.

3. To set the scene. Now that you have your services in good working order, you need an effective way to address the problem with your boss . The best way to do this is to plan ahead. not Expect Your opinion to come. How often moved your annual review or not happen? You can not come to surprise your boss if he does. In reviewing the decisions were almost always do, so you should be good to set the scene in advance.

Order (although unstructured) and an annual review your manager his achievements and career goals to inform a message six months. In addition, you must say that you are working for a doctorate to the next round. If you do not work directly with her on a daily basis, and does so already, you may want to send a quick summary of weekly, biweekly or monthly program. Do not concentrate on simple tasks. Focus on results. If you are looking to move into their role or to promote, it is necessary to focus on the concrete quantitative results.

4. Be flexible. In an informal conversation in your opinion, ask the extent to which specific targets to become promoted to get it, it's time. Discover what it does well and where you can improve. Is there training, you need to fill up to the next level? Once you have to do a list of things, then you can go and they do before the time of the investigation. You must agree with your manager to achieve these milestones prior to the test and let you know when they have completed and provide all the information on each.

Do not assume that the manager knows your career goals if you do not have this discussion. They insist on early in his tenure and description of the contract do expectations on paper, even if it is a formal procedure. Stay in touch with regular updates on the progress and make sure that your boss knows in advance that you have met all the conditions for promotion. After six months and one year, in order to ensure that a check takes place. After all, the promotion of their work. Do not wait for someone else to do it for you.