The Real Reason You Keep Getting Passed Over for Promotion
Picture it, Sicily 1922. Oh wait, that’s the Golden Girls. No really, picture it… Present Day in your office. Senior leadership has just announced which of you has earned the latest promotion. Yet again, it wasn’t you!
How can this be? You have more talent, more experience, more technical skills than the person they just promoted. Your performance reviews are great. Your manager or supervisor is very happy with your work. Why can’t you move to the next level of leadership? Whether that is Director, Vice President, CEO. What does it take? On paper, it looks like you should be the obvious choice.
But paper doesn’t necessarily say what kind of communicator you are. Whether you have the requisite professional or political savvy. How your personal brand or image is perceived by others. How you govern yourself and interact with others. Or what level of business acumen you possess or demonstrate. These are the things that get you promoted! Not just your technical or subject matter expertise. Not just your years of experience or longevity.
These soft, somewhat intangible, skills are crucial to your growth and upward mobility. They are as, if not more important than the other “hard” skills you possess. And they are all encompassed within the container of executive presence.
Executive presence the key to your success. Not having it can tank your career. In fact, 78% of 400 CEO’s surveyed in a recent study agreed that executive presence is necessary to make it to executive level leadership, including the C-suite.
If you are tired of being passed over for promotion time and time again by someone less qualified than you, consider working on your executive presence. If you want to have a competitive edge over your equally qualified peers, consider working on your executive presence.
And if you know that you need help improving your executive presence, consider applying to the Epic Moves Program at The Rising Executive. This 12-week program teaches high achiever female leaders to cultivate executive presence in the six key areas that are critical to attaining C-suite level success using the Be EPIC Framework.
Learn more or schedule a Rising Exec Pathfinder Call at https://www.therisingexec.com/programs.
