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"Presenting and promoting your team's work..."

Is that what is being promoted in a presentation to a promotion committee arguing that you individually should be promoted within the organization?

"... too busy to prepare an important presentation..."

Important to whom? You or the people you are working for?

I agree a system like this could filter for what we commonly recognise as "management qualities".

Although I am not sure they would be qualities such as selflessness and putting the needs of their reports and the organization ahead of their own aspirations.

It might also filter for self-serving behaviour.




If you can't advocate for yourself, how are you going to advocate for anybody else? A promotion process, if there is one, is an important time for you and the organization. Lots of people's time is being spent to figure out whether to elevate an individual towards a position of company leadership. In the long run, it's far, far more important than any individual project you might be working on (and if it isn't, show that you can get yourself out of the front lines, or you are destined to fail at management).




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