How to Get Yourself Promoted?

 You are “Me Incorporation”- your own organization within a larger organizational boundary. You are its owner and so, take charge
 Develop your personal brand equity- people should start knowing you as the best in your trade/profession. It is lots of smart and hard work.
 Treat every job as a special project and not as a routine task or activity and deliver an excellent project, always.
 Shed the 9 to 5 mentality. How much time you put in work is not the measure of success. What, how much and in-time delivery only will count.
 Keep track of your accomplishments and quantify results achieved by you. Keep its record systematically and in an impressive manner.
 And then practice self promotion appropriately to the people who matter.
 Make yourself visible by your performance, smart and hard work.
 Perfect your elevator pitch with the people who matter for you have the perfect background now.
 Establish a great professional bond with your boss.
 Make your boss look good. Help him in it.
 Build your professional network.
 Stay in close touch with the HR department.
 Find mentors. Develop mentoring relationships.
 Check periodically/frequently where you are, what’s your part in the current job and which of your strengths have brought you there?
 Master your current job: become the perfect craftsman of your craft, let people realize that no one else can do it the way do it.
 Keep doing the current job exceptionally well. Do your best now.
 Check periodically/frequently where do you want to be and how will you get there? Find those extra things required out of you.
 Therefore, add further to your value.
 Acquire new knowledge and skills/competencies.
 Take additional training from various sources.
 Do work from the next level up (do a boss like or boss’s job).
 Do more than necessary (smart way not the donkey way).
 Do more than expected (smart way not the donkey way).
 Take initiative and volunteer to take on (valuable or value adding) extra tasks.
 Ask for more responsibilities.
 Put pride, passion in everything you do.
 Separate yourself from the crowd- the run of the mill types.
 Act professionally all times.
 Look presentable at all times as required for your profession.
 Practice good manners.
 Be a good team player.
 Maintain positive relationships with the staff in your and other departments.
 Enhance your leadership skills and put them to practice.
 Groom a successor in your department.
 See challenges as opportunities.
 Create your own opportunities- they do not readily come on platter.
 Watch your timing in everything you do