Here’s Rainmakers Suggested Personal Promotion Plan

Do not pass GO if you are not doing the best you can in your current position.

• Excellent performance reviews are absolutely necessary to get you a promotion
• Not sufficient but necessary
• Good attendance, punctuality and going the extra mile are also up there too
• Give this a little thought…
• If you show up 5 minutes early and leave a little later
• And that turns into a promotion…
• How much extra income could that be over your lifetime?
• Let’ say the initial promotion earns you £4k a year more.
• It’s rare that people’s salaries go down over their working life.
• Now let’s times the £4k by 20 years …Hmmm £80k
• Now do you think that getting up 5 minutes early is worth it??

Self-market not a self-promote

• Self-marketing focuses on the buyer and doesn’t project an ego.
• Your communication should have lots of “You”s in it not Lots of “I”s in it…
• Try this test…
• Count up the “I”s and “You”s in 10 of your last commmunications
• (Sometimes the “I”s disguise themselves as “We”s) …
• If your communications have more “I”s than “You”s you are probably self promoting
• Try to re-word your communications to have “You”s.. You’ll get the hang of it quickly
• Ask yourself
• What’s your employer’s biggest challenge?
• How can you help them overcome this?
• Market yourself – and let it be known that you are seeking a promotion.
• Share any accomplishments, compliments and accolades with your bosses

Let me know how you get on with these … Any ideas that work for you?