Tips to Finally Get Promoted at Your Office

“YOUR CAREER PATH CAN TAKE SEVERAL TWISTS AND TURNS AS YOU MASTER ONE ROLE AND MOVE ON TO ANOTHER.”

Earning a promotion and get promoted at your office takes hard work and dedication towards your job. Promotions come with more responsibilities but it opens up the avenue for career growth and development.

Getting promoted at your office is not an easy task as you are in the competition with your colleagues as well as outsiders who are changing their job for hike. In today’s world full of competition and willing to get promoted with a hike is a major task for this generation. Employees who are willing to get promoted have to focus on few key qualities that will be mentioned below. Making the things done right in right place at right time is very necessary for everyone to get promoted and to improve their efficient way of working.

The qualities are mentioned below will led you to get promoted if followed correctly.

Get clear expectations from your boss

You should able to know that what your boss expects from you for the organization and how you will be able to perform.

Note down your achievements

Till date what you have achieved in your professional life and how these achievements are helping you to be a better employee day by day.

Grow beyond your job

You should focus on the other things not only on job to improve your mental and physical strength.

Try to be a good leader

Take responsibility for every work assigned to you and influence the people to work. Make sure that everyone gets chance to participate equally not only your favorite person. You should make everyone grow under your supervision.

Find a mentor

You would not be always able to deal with everything or new things by yourself. Might be you need to learn the things according to you post or organization. So you need to find a mentor who can guide you to the best.

Always eager to learn

The hunger to learn the things will improve you more as a person as well as a employee of the organization. Learning never lead you to failure, it will take you to the success or teach you a lesson. So be eager to learn things.

Build a strong network

Be Social within the organization and outside from the organization. Making the connection with the people will make you more comfortable while exploring the way of doing the work done. Many organization promote the employee by asking with the employees of their organization and they might go for voting concept to get right candidate getting promoted at your office.

Go for feedback and act according to situation

If you are doing anything whether a project or a assignment, it might be probably the best according to you but you should ask if any correction is needed or not. Feedback will definitely boost you to get work done more precisely and efficiently.

Accept challenges

There are several challenges in the organization for a employee. By accepting these challenges and overcoming with a positive result may make you more comfortable for upcoming challenges. It will always leave a positive impact on the senior person and colleagues.

Reinforce confidence

Many employees are confident for work they do but the thing is that how strong their confident they are actually. There will not be any second chance for anything you failed in but if you are confident like a wall which has no loop then only after getting failed you can confidently able to go for the second chance will succeed. So be confident like no one can do it as you can.

Find out key research areas (KRA)

Focus on the areas which are to be needed to get more polished and improve that. What are your key areas in which you can see yourself working for in future .

Earn trust

The money is not everything in the world but money for everything is different. Be trustworthy for the organization in which you are working because if a senior person having trust in you will give you more chances to prove yourself how will you be a great toss for a organization.

Get out with your fear

Many employees have fear of losing their job but from my point of view of you know your capability then you will never be unemployed for long time, things take time. Now come to the fear of mind like we are good at things but unable to show because we fear in crowd but for sure if wanted to be a unique that is you wanted to get promoted between the number of employees then you have to come up with all the fear and perform like you don’t fear for anything.

Develop new skills

In the era of technology and getting updates about new technologies is not only the thing you have to update yourself to be in a competition with the upcoming competition which will make to survive in this world of technology.

Be prepared for every meeting with your boss

Be always ready to what to say and when to say while having conversations with boss. Leaving the good impression during the conversation will give you a chance to lead.

Follow up

Never forget to follow up with the things that are incomplete or completed recently because these are like new born babies you have to give more attention to the things and new things can cause new problems also follow up in time to time will avoid upcoming problems and make yourself more confident. You will also get to know your capabilities also.

These are few steps to implement in the life and hope you will get promoted at your office among the other employees.

Submitted By: Shresth Srivastava | Divyanshi Trivedi
(PGDM Batch 2019-21)