Your Next Role

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Proactivity: put yourself forward for the role

• When and how to ask for promotion
• Prepare your pitch
• Your key task: write up your role vision and anticipated priorities

1 When and how to ask for promotion

Being proactive is essential if you want to get promoted. The organisation is unlikely to promote someone who doesn’t have the self-confidence to put themselves forward for promotion. Dropping hints won’t cut it. You need to come right out and ask for the promotion.

When and how to ask for promotion

• If you don’t ask for promotion, don’t expect to get it
• The importance of timing
• Don’t wait for a vacancy to come up
• Don’t fall down at the first hurdle

IF YOU DON’T ASK FOR PROMOTION, DON’T EXPECT TO GET IT

Of course most people would ...