Greetings young professional and rising leader!
Are you looking for your first or next promotion?
Today I’d like to share one way to find it faster: ask for more responsibility.
Everyone wants to get promoted, yet few people actually ask for more responsibility. As the saying goes, always provide more service than you are paid for. It is the best way to differentiate yourself, wow your boss and internal/external customers, and demonstrate you are promotion worthy.
If you current job or manager is not challenging you enough, take charge of your career and desire to be promoted and ask for additional work or stimulating assignments. Showing you can handle more – and are willing to do so – is a great way to demonstrate your value and leadership impact.
Don’t wait to be singled out for a promotion, go the extra mile consistently and promote yourself!
Such behavior will result in increased recognition of your performance. It may not happen over night, but it will happen much sooner than if you just sit and wait for your number to be called – no guarantees that will happen!
If, and only if, you are ready for more responsibility, will you accept the challenge and ask your manager for it?
Until next time, remember NOW is the time, to Take Ownership, Take Charge, and Take YOUR CAREER to the next level!
See YOU at the top,
Coach Al Johnson
