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Promotion vs Progression
When was your last promotion? When do you think you will be promoted? These are common questions asked by ourselves or by others. What stands out is that a promotion is a gold standard to get validated on your performance and progress in your career.
Even when companies have awards, only a handful of employees receive awards. There are many other hard-working individuals that will miss out, which increases the feeling of not progressing their career.
In this article, I want to highlight the benefits of shifting your career focus from promotions to progression. This statement shouldn’t detract from aiming to get a promotion. It is changing how we measure our careers and how we are focusing our time. Concentrate your time on the right things will lead to more wins which will propel your career forward.
A promotion is a great feeling, and it comes with organisational and social praise as well as an increase in compensation. So, why wouldn’t I encourage you to focus on it? The main factor is that there are things out of your control that results in a promotion, regardless of hard you work or how good your results are.
The four everyday items that are not in your control are:
1. Organisational limits on the number of people promoted per round based on business needs.
