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Ten reasons you won't get promoted. (Management Keeper #45).
You've been campaigning for a promotion into management. You've enlisted your boss's help and you've read job postings until you're bleary-eyed. You've been promised a promotion by everyone who could make such a promise, including your boss's boss and two of your boss's peers "should anything open up." Nothing has. You're frustrated as hell. What's going on here?
Your people skills are weak.
You may be a technical star but when it comes to people skills, you're a dud. One of the reluctantly learned lessons of the past five years is that, even in techies, people skills matter. Why haven't we heard more about this? Managers tell us it's the equivalent of beating a dog for not being feline. There is a current belief that people skills can be enhanced but they can't be learned from scratch. Is this right? It doesn't matter. If management believes coaching works only with those who have a talent for managing people, it's unlikely you will have a chance to prove them wrong.
The organization is flat.
Management knows you're restless. You've made that clear. Unfortunately, unless your boss moves on - and she/he shows no signs of doing so - there is no place to move you. Ditto his/her peers. If you are told, "forget it. We've got no place to put you," your boss knows your quick exit would leave burn marks on the carpet. Management's collective hope is you'll continue to work - even if you continue to agitate - but will not leave.
Your peers are as worthy as you are.
Nothing can cause management paralysis as effectively as the fear that if one person gets promoted, six will leave. As long as no one is promoted, you and your peers are equal. As soon as one of you gets a promotion, any myth of equality disappears. We see many thirtysomethings whose peers are each one more attractive and competitive than the next. A boss that promotes one of them over the rest can expect the worst. Those passed over leave. A boss who can dangle six people and keep them working at top speed chasing a carrot, rivals scheherazade.
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