Target Skill: Professional Self-Promotion is Among
the Top Management Skills
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Professional Self-Promotion is Among the Top Management
Skills
 Among the essential management skills you need for success, the
ability to both professionally and successfully enhance your reputation
are paramount.
 Using effective self-promotion is critical and under utilized.
 Professional Self-promotion, the ability to present yourself in all the
right circumstances in the best light, is an important skill for
advancement and promotion.
Professional Self-Promotion is Among the Top
Management Skills
 The key question is this "what is your plan to promote yourself within
the organization and even the industry?" We are not talking about
"buttering" people up or blatantly self-promoting your cause in an
unprofessional manner.
 On the contrary, a quality, well defined Plan to enhance your
advancement with self-promotion, refers to the actions needed to
manage your image, inside and outside the organization.
 Many aspiring leaders, particularly those with less experience, often
wait, assume their manager or someone else will consistently promote
their future.
 Nothing could be further from reality. No one else in the organization
can be counted on consistently to make sure you are visible to the
people that affect your future. This is your responsibility. You must take
full control of your plan to advance and make yourself clearly
promotable.
Professional Self-Promotion is Among the Top
Management Skills
 Important people must recognize that you exist, so you must stand out to
the right people. That you are working hard, and excelling at what you
contribute is a given (or should be).
 You will fall short of being widely recognized" for your management skills
if you think that your contribution speaks for itself.
 To develop your "Advancement Plan", identify all those people that can
make a difference in your career success.
 You need people of influence to know who you are and your capabilities for
contributing to the organization. Be skillful and professional, but seize
every opportunity to project what you have achieved and accomplished and
do so without bragging…just adroit sharing.
Professional Self-Promotion is Among the Top
Management Skills
 If you are not getting important opportunities to exhibit what you can
accomplish, you need to pinpoint projects, committees and other
activities where you can add value.
 Offer to volunteer some of your time to a project. Something you can
have an impact on that will get people's attention.
 Find resources or information that might be of value to the project, or
business unit, and share it with the leader or head of that project.
 Find a community project sponsored by the organization and get
involved.
Professional Self-Promotion is Among the Top
Management Skills
 Once you plan is in place, with influential people identified and
opportunities noted, execute the plan at every opportunity.
 You must be ready and quick to select, or interject yourself in a
positive way into any situation that can put you in the best light.
You will be first to volunteer, because you were prepared ahead
of time.
 Remember, you are competing for the position of "up & coming
star" with others whether you know it or not. People above you
will be watching.
Professional Self-Promotion is Among the Top
Management Skills
 The most important take-away here is the need for an "Advancement
Plan." Most of you potential competitors will not have one.
 You need to have a very good one.
 Armed with a Plan, aspiring leaders are in the best position to seize
every relevant opportunity in order to put themselves in the best light
to the people who can influence their future. You will be able to move
quickly, professionally and with conviction.
 You know what your strengths are, you know what your capabilities for
of adding value to the business and you are putting yourself in the
spotlight when the opportunity presents itself.
Professional Self-Promotion is Among the Top
Management Skills
 It comes down to committing to a well-conceived plan of action and
lightning quick execution.
 Do you want advancement? Advance your promote-ability Plan.
Successfully managing your career is both an art and a science.
 Many managers are so busy managing their day-to-day jobs that the
opportunity for developing advance skills passes them up.
 An easy starting point is to know all Five Essential Skills for
Advancement. Self-promotion is one of these skills.
Professional Self-Promotion is Among the Top
Management Skills
 Self-Promotion is one of
5 Essential Skills for
Advancement.
 Without acquiring and
developing this skill-set
you are selfhandicapping the
potential you.
 Professional Self-
Promotion is one of the
top 5 Advanced
Management Skills.
 The other 4 skills may
surprise you.
 To find out, Click:
5 Essential Characteristics for
Advancement