Keep your boss happy, develop your ‘personal boardroom’, ask for honest feedback, don’t take the notes in every meeting and remember: no one gets promoted for inbox zero
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here is nothing worse than feeling stuck in a job. What are the best ways to progress without having to resort to shameless self-promotion? Here, career coaches explain how to make sure you are first in line for a promotion – and a pay rise.
“One of the major secrets to getting any sort of promotion is that you must sow the seeds early on and build up to the point where the promotion feels like the natural next step,” says John Brown, a career coach in Nottingham. “First, you have to nail the current job. Make sure you meet your deadlines, hit all your targets and fall firmly into the ‘delivering’ category. Be brave enough to push back if your targets are unachievable. Don’t set yourself up to fail by simply agreeing to everything.”
Tessa Grint, a career coach based in Bangkok who describes herself as a “leadership architect”, agrees: “You need to become the leader before you get the promotion. A promotion is the reward and recognition of the work that you’ve been doing.”
