Getting Promoted: Real Strategies for Advancing Your Career

The author is highly knowledgeable of the subject of workplace promotion. He is aware of the current trends in the workplace and provides insightful suggestions on how one can dramatically improve the chance of promotion. There are three factors to promotion: 1)SAW (Skill, Ability, Willingness) 2)People's Positive Promotable Perception (relationship and leadership skills). 3)Promotional Opportunities within an organization. Promotion is increasingly becoming more competitive. In most situations, one needs to be the best, not just good, worker to be promoted to the next level. One needs to set the highest standard in technical skills and constantly improve on it. Next, it is critical one has positive attitude even among those who are strongly negative. Emotional Intelligence in an increasingly stressful and hostile work environment (brought on by more work with fewer workers) is absolutely neccessary to create and maintain positive relationships with the coworkers, the boss, and the customers. Finally, one must be able to affirmatively answer the following question with measureable results: "Will promoting you result in creating greater benefit for the organization?". One must show the ability to put the team ahead of one's interest for the greater good in a consistent basis.

I loved this book's positive outlook on getting promoted. It focuses on finding ways to motivate yourself and to improve yourself so that you are more productive. While the author acknowledges that other factors besides merit play a roll in getting a promotion, he encourages readers to focus on doing their jobs better. I believe this is ultimately the best approach because if you try to get promoted by unethical means, it is easy to be exposed. This book is about being ethical and succeeding by doing things that you?re proud to stand behind. I find this book to be good motivation to examine areas in which I could improve at work and to take action.

Harry Chambers has written a book that really says something. You're carer will get a big boost if you follow his guidelines. Yes, I've read a lot of these self-help get-ahead books, but this one cuts to the chase with the correct advice.

Drawing from interviews and research, the author shows how to utilize your most promotable skills, manage perceptions of colleagues and supervisors, avoid promotion killers, and utilize the appraisal process to advance yourself. Chambers outlines some of the most crucial promotional realities in today's workplace. He shows how to converge three pathways to promotion: (1) sharpening skills, abilities and willingness; (2) achieving visibility and positive perceptions of you; and (3) taking advantage of opportunities within the organization. An excellent guide for the ambitious at any career stage. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, Stern & Associates and the Business InfoCenter, author of Stern's Sourcefinder: The Master Directory to HR and Business Management Information & Resources, Stern's CyberSpace SourceFinder, and Stern's Compensation and Benefits SourceFinder.