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Growing in your job

Ask what a raise would take, hold your pay in a new field and correct a senior kindly.

12 steps · 2 h 16 min · ends in a certificate

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The route, in order

  1. Check what feedback meansYour manager says your work should be “more strategic”Case practice13 minSoulful
  2. Finish your pointA colleague talks over you while you explain a risk9 minSoulful
  3. Fix a missing creditA project update credits your colleague for joint work12 minSoulful
  4. Question a plan with a fixYou saw a problem that your manager’s Monday plan misses10 minSoulful
  5. Show what you deliveredSending your manager the sales table with something extra added11 minSoulful
  6. Ask what a raise would takeAsking your manager about a raise on the Thursday coffee walk10 minSoulful
  7. Ask for a place on the teamYou ask to join a new team that is all senior colleagues12 minSoulful
  8. Hold your pay in a new fieldThe offer in your new field is below what you earn now12 minSoulful
  9. Put a pay step in writingTaking a lower offer for three months, then the pay you want13 minSoulful
  10. Ask for an introductionAsking a former colleague to introduce you to an organizer9 minSoulful
  11. Correct the record kindlyA senior member got facts wrong, and now it is your turnCase practice15 minSoulful
  12. Tell people early about a slipYour numbers for Thursday’s client review will be a day late10 minSoulful

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People skills for growing in your job

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Built on published research. Why it works. Role description: Artz, Goodall and Oswald: Do women ask? (Industrial Relations, 2018) , Morrison and Phelps: Taking charge at work (Academy of Management Journal, 1999) . Updated . All career routes