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What are some of examples of ways you have been able to get promoted or support your colleagues to get promoted at the same company?

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Melinda Chung
Melinda Chung
ex-VP Marketing at VSCO; ex-Dir at PMM Adobe; Founder at Product Marketing BootcampJanuary 14

Here are two opposite examples of people getting promoted to more senior product marketing roles:

  1. “Nancy” was extremely motivated and driven to get promoted. She proactively raised this in our regular check-in’s, and I asked her to create a plan with milestones against her annual objectives that would demonstrate her ability to be at the next level. She regularly achieved against the plan, I put together her promotion case, and she was promoted.
  2. I recognized during our work together that “Linda” was acting at a higher level than what her title dictated. She never asked for it, but I proactively talked to her about getting promoted, and we put her promotion case together. She was promoted.

We all wish our manager would do No.2, but that’s usually not the case. If you know you want to get promoted, do No.1 and get active in your conversations with your manager about what you need to demonstrate in order to be promoted. And then get cracking.

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