What Actually Gets You Promoted: The 3 Forces Behind Every Promotion

Most people think promotions are awarded. In reality, they are built months before the decision is ever announced. Drawing from my award-winning book Get Promoted, this 97% Effective Essentials episode breaks down the three forces that shape advancement inside organizations.

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

SHOW NOTES:

• Step #1, The Rock: Better to build your strategies on truths and evidence, not comforting fantasies
• In organizations, the hard truth about who promotes us
• Can’t articulate how the promotion process works in your organization? Then you need to this.
• What is your organization promoting (vs saying it promotes)? Find out through this short exercise.
• What’s holding you back? Kara Williams, Partner at Credera, shares what held her back.
• All progress starts by doing this.
• Step #2, The Map: What good is knowing north if you don’t assess the landscape?
• Why you should first ask “Who?”
• Peter Belmi, Professor at Darden: Your job is to find the right people!
• How a frank talk with his boss got my client out of daydream mode and into the leadership program
• How are you spending your time?
• Step #3, The Snowball: Nothing happens unless something moves
• Are you waiting for the stars to totally align?
• Doing vs Thinking
• Gorick Ng, Harvard Career Advisor and Author “The Unspoken Rules”: The #1 career limiting move
• The value of being uncomfortable
• 3 Questions, 3 Actions

BIO AND LINKS:

Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).

• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74
• Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelchangwenderoth/
• Kara Williams Episode “Advancing Your Career Through ‘Salt, Acid, Fat & Heat’”: https://tinyurl.com/59tmctku
• Article “Great Leader Embraces Office Politics” (Harvard Business Review): https://hbr.org/2016/04/great-leaders-embrace-office-politics
• Professor Peter Belmi Episode “Social Class & Our Beliefs – How They Affect Our Path to Power”: https://tinyurl.com/2ys2h8r8
• Michael’s Power Map Tool (FREE): https://changwenderoth.com/the-power-map/
• Gorick Ng Episode “What You’re Not Taught in School – Unspoken Rules That Accelerate Your Career”: https://tinyurl.com/bdze24px
• Article “How to Get Your First Promotion” (Harvard Business Review): https://hbr.org/2022/10/how-to-get-your-first-promotion
• Get Promoted named Winner (Business-Careers) and Finalist (Business-General), 2023 International Book Awards: https://www.internationalbookawards.com/2023pressrelease.html