4 tips to get promotion

How to get the promotion in 2013?

Doing your job really well isn't enough if you want to climb the career ladder – you need to be positive, resilient and strategic

This is the time to  reevaluate your career aspirations, choices and make new decisions.

5 things you need to do to get recognized at work:

1. Manage your personal brand.

2. Bring your own unique  value so that you become a go to person.

3.  You need to systematically train yourself on  hard skills. Psychology professor K. Anders Ericsson called this deliberate practice.This will be the main differentiators between average hard working people and you.

4. You need to smart enough to stand out in the crowd – amongst your peers and colleagues. Here is a great article "Want That Promotion? Practice Your Job." by CAl Newport on WAS.

5. Promotions are not just a function of skills and aptitude, the CTI (Center for Talent Innovation) report argues. Executive presence is “a required yet unwritten” competency for leaders.

I was talking with Dr. Malavika, a famous Calcutta based human resource consultant on recent trend of management training and steps to getting paid more and promoted faster.

How to get promoted: Secrets to promotion success 

Malvika explained one of the strategies for getting yourself promoted in knowledge based industry to get training in latest techniques. She mentioned 4 games you need to play & learn to get recognized at your work. 

She put forth  a very important concept on importance of games in development of business skill. She told that playing games and learning game theory is must of those who want to be successful at 'cxo' level.

4 games that can help to get next promotion

Be bold to get recognized

1. 'Beer game' by John Sterman of MIT-Sloan. This is based around the production, sale, and distribution of the eponymous beverage, and can be played by as few as four to as many as several hundred participants.You will learn virtue of wait and how to act instead of complain.

2. She mentioned that there are some coaching centers who took the concept a step further—out of the office or factory scenario. These games are actually play involving real hot issues. Where aspiring managers plays instead of professional actors.

Common topics are euro zone problem, how America should overcome financial cliff, how to find price & production anomaly, how to manage the company during disaster.

It develops analytic skill as well as train the people on how to influence others in an important meeting. Actually, these games help you to learn reframe of your experience. You need to convert most horrible experience into a learning lesson.

3. She mentioned that the management institute Mannaz, in Denmark has devised a program based around the world’s most popular online game, World of Warcraft, which aims to show how international teams can improve their leadership effectiveness through shifting strategies that place high demands on communication and the management of tasks and team mates.

4. Chess is one of the best game for learning strategy. Chess demonstrates the need for combining big-picture thinking with the balance of resources and an in-depth understanding of your competition. If you are a regular chess player, you know the importance to build a network of players also.  This is important.

Every employee in the workplace is 100% responsible for his or her promotion.

I asked Malavika why smart people having good track records fail?

She mentioned that in an attempt to be useful and adaptable people normally say yes to too many good projects and opportunities. But, I finally they end up feeling overworked and underutilized.

How to get a promotion

She continued that we hold the key to unlock our true potential & success.  You need to find which ideas from the past are important and pursue those. Throw out the rest. This life audit is important for your professional success.

Greg McKeown  article "The Disciplined Pursuit of Less" is a must read to avoid career regrets.


The reality is, your boss or your company will not go out of their way to give you a promotion or a raise. You have to prove to them that you are worthy of a promotion .


You have to do the things that trigger or merit promotions. In a moment, I will reveal to you exactly how to do so. Read "How To Get A Promotion And Pay Raise At Work ?", an  interesting article referred by Malavika .

As a departing comment she told all these games will make a person more deserving. 

You can follow  Glenn Llopis, article on "5 Ways to Get Promoted in 2013"