Six tips to guide your Managers to a Promotion

Six tips to guide your Managers to a Promotion

The economy is looking up. This means your company is likely to be doing more hiring and promotions.

If you’re talking with your managers about moving ahead in their career, this is the time to guide them in some personal career resolutions that will help make them promotion material.

Here are some suggestions for them:

1. Always act with integrity

It has been said that integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is looking. In these days of e-mail trails, video cameras and social networking, that is especially good policy because you never know for sure that no one is looking or listening.

2. Be a contributor

Do your homework and come to meetings prepared. Then stay fully engaged, as opposed to daydreaming or checking your phone. Contribute by asking focused questions or providing useful information.

3. Be a ‘Yes’ person

Don’t hang back and wait for someone else to volunteer for difficult or unpleasant tasks. When asked to take on a project of this nature, view it as an opportunity to stand out. Just say “yes.” Being a can-do person makes your boss’s life easier and shows your value.

4. Be an optimist

A cynical person may get laughs and knowing looks. However, cynics don’t make good leaders, so they tend not to get promoted as fast as people who are positive and pleasant. Work at seeing the best in people and situations. Look for ways to support your colleagues’ ideas rather than criticizing them. Find the bright side of the news.

5. Apologize when you make a mistake

Few things lower our opinion of someone faster than their inability to admit an error or say “I’m sorry.” But most of us are quick to forgive someone who comes out and says “I screwed up” and “I apologize.” And don’t mess up a good apology with an excuse. That can be worse than no apology at all.

6. Look and sound the part of the position you want

This may sound superficial, but it is human to form impressions on the basis of looks and speech. People who dress, groom themselves, speak and write like leaders are more likely to be viewed as having leadership potential.

A promotion doesn’t come along by accident. Start taking steps to guide your management to the careers they could have.


About MKS&H:

McLean, Koehler, Sparks & Hammond (MKS&H) is a professional service firm with offices in Hunt Valley and Frederick. MKS&H helps owners and organizational leaders become more successful by putting complex financial data into truly meaningful context. But deeper than dollars and data, our focus is on developing an understanding of you, your culture and your business goals. This approach enables our clients to achieve their greatest potential.

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