How to Get Promoted?

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Comprehensive and Tested Tips to Get Promoted at Work

You are “Me Incorporation”- your own organization within a larger organizational boundary. You are its owner and so, take charge. Refer: (Ownership on Job) http://job-ownership.blogspot.com/
Develop your personal brand equity- people should start knowing you as the best in your trade/profession. It is lots of smart and hard work.
Treat every job as a special project and not as a routine task or activity and deliver an excellent project, always.
Shed the 9 to 5 mentality. How much time you put in work is not the measure of success. What, how much and in-time delivery only will count.
Keep track of your accomplishments and quantify results achieved by you. Keep its record systematically and in an impressive manner.
And then practice self promotion appropriately to the people who matter.
Make yourself visible by your performance, smart and hard work.
Perfect your elevator pitch with the people who matter for you have the perfect background now.
Establish a great professional bond with your boss.
Make your boss look good. Help him in it.
Build your professional network.
Stay in close touch with the HR department.
Find mentors. Develop mentoring relationships.
Check periodically/frequently where you are, what’s your part in the current job and which of your strengths have brought you there?
Master your current job: become the perfect craftsman of your craft, let people realize that no one else can do it the way do it.
Keep doing the current job exceptionally well. Do your best now.
Check periodically/frequently where do you want to be and how will you get there? Find those extra things required out of you.
Therefore, add further to your value.
Acquire new knowledge and skills/competencies.
Take additional training from various sources.
Do work from the next level up (do a boss like or boss’s job).
Do more than necessary (smart way not the donkey way).
Do more than expected (smart way not the donkey way).
Take initiative and volunteer to take on (valuable or value adding) extra tasks.
Ask for more responsibilities.
Put pride, passion in everything you do.
Separate yourself from the crowd- the run of the mill types.
Act professionally all times.
Look presentable at all times as required for your profession.
Practice good manners.
Be a good team player.
Maintain positive relationships with the staff in your and other departments.
Enhance your leadership skills and put them to practice.
Groom a successor in your department.
See challenges as opportunities.
Create your own opportunities- they do not readily come on platter.
Watch your timing in everything you do.

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