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How to Decode Your Organization’s Secret Criteria for Promotion

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There are two kinds of criteria you must know about when you go for promotion: the formal and the informal.

The formal criteria are your organization’s obvious requirements to rise to the next level. Such as producing commercial results or experience leading successful teams. So, you’ll be competing with many people who will qualify for the formal criteria.

But even more important and often overlooked are the informal criteria. These hidden, unwritten and unspoken factors carry more weight and help you to stand out from the other promotion candidates.

Knowing the informal criteria is the key to getting support for your promotion and influencing promotion decisions. They determine how you demonstrate you’ve “got what it takes” to the right people at the right time.

In this Career Mastery Live, you’ll discover how to identify the informal promotion criteria in your organization so you can gain the backing of decision-makers and put yourself in the best position for promotion.

  • The 4 ways to identify the informal criteria in your organization
  • 3 Ways to use “x-ray vision” to see what really matters to senior stakeholders
  • How to discover the accomplishments that get the most respect in your organization
  • What “sticky” language is and how to use it to change people’s perception of you
  • The secret “tests” you have to pass to show you’re ready for promotion

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