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How to Get Promoted |Dodging Landmines

If you keep getting passed up for promotions no matter how hard you work, take a look at your managerial skills. Are they nonexistent? Starla Sireno, executive coach at Fearlessness Inc., urges you to sit down with your manager and really listen—don't get defensive! Ask what you can do, what skills you may lack, or if she knows of other reasons you may have gotten passed by.

Speaker: Starla Sireno, Trainer and Executive Coach, Fearlessness Inc.

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How to Get Promoted |Dodging Landmines

If you keep getting passed up for promotions no matter how hard you work, take a look at your managerial skills. Are they nonexistent? Starla Sireno, executive coach at Fearlessness Inc., urges you to sit down with your manager and really listen—don't get defensive! Ask what you can do, what skills you may lack, or if she knows of other reasons you may have gotten passed by.

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Speaker: Let's say I work hard. I get results for the company, but when it comes time for promotions, I'm passed over. There were people who even started with me, and they have already advanced to being a manager. What am I doing wrong?

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Speaker: The skills that you were hired for may not be the same skills that are needed in a management position. You may be a total super star. You may be the most technologically gifted person on your team, but those skills don't necessarily translate into management. So let me give you an example. Let's say you're an accountant, and you're the world's best accountant. If you don't have people skills, you're not gonna make a good manager.

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Speaker: Is there a solution to this?

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Speaker: There is. What you need to do -- and this is -- this could be difficult, but you need to go in and talk to your manager. You need to go in and say, I want to move up. What am I doing that's keeping me back? What can I improve? And be really open and listen to what your manager says. Don't just -- don't get defensive. Don't block it. Just really -- this is about your career, so you really want to hear what your manager has to say.

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Speaker: In summary?

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Speaker: In summary, realize that the skills you have now may not serve you in management. Go in and talk to your manager and ask them honestly what can you do to develop the skills that are going to bring you to that next level.

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