How to Make Yourself Promotable7 SKILLS TO HELP YOU CLIMBTHE CAREER LADDER

BY MET TE JOHANSSON

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What does it take to be promotable?

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The first step on the journey to becoming promotable is to connect to your values. When you do this, you’ll find that your confidence increases, you have much more energy, and your desire to make a difference increases too.

PROMOTE

Practice Powerful Communication

W Words: The words that we use to express ourselves.

A Architecture: How we structure and build up our message.

L Listening: The way we truly listen to understand the other person.

K Kinesics: What we project with our non-verbal language.

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Raise your Self-Confidence

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You are a combination of how you think, speak, and pose.

Your mind, words, and body are all interrelated.

Use this knowledge to build up both your self-confidence, and your appearance of it.

Own Your StageSome people are born with a natural gift to spellbind their listeners. The

rest of us, however, need to work hard on it. This involves:

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Prepare a great presentation or pitch

Single-focused key message.

Packaging a presentation: good storytelling, data, and visual aids.

Structure, draft, and redraft a great presentation.

Practice

Applying communication skills

Preparing social pitches and elevator pitches

Mentor And Be Mentored

BEING MENTORED

• Access to new insight and learnings.

• Helps you navigate organisations and challenges you face.

• Challenge your assumptions, and broadens your horizons.

• Identify the right people to go• Increase your belief in yourself.

BECOMING A MENTOR

• Personally enriching.• Practise interpersonal skills• leadership skill: bringing out

the best in others.• Access to new insights and

learnings.

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Optimise Relations With Your Boss

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BOSS

ExpectationsNeeds, Motives,

WantsWorking Style

Ask for and provide

feedback

Understand his/her

Target Peak Productivity

Increasing your productivity at work is not such a difficult feat, though. After acquiring a few simple techniques, you’ll be able to spend more time on essential tasks and projects, and go home earlier more often.

1. Identify and prioritise your big rocks.2. Distinguish between urgent and important tasks.3. Time Management techniques4. Minimise distractions 5. Be persistent

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Engage Authentically

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Authentic Leader

Knows self

High emotional

intelligence

Engages and Listens

Admits mistakes

Respectful

Integrity

Drive

About the author:

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Mette was a leader in corporate communications forover fifteen years before making a pivotal change to hercareer path. In 2013, she took up training projectsand has dedicated her professional life to what sheloves most – helping professionals, managers, and teamleaders accelerate their way up the career ladder.

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