Are you a career woman? Do you work in a male dominated workplace? In Melt The Glass Ceiling, your career coach, Lisa Liszcz, will share tips and strategies on developing the career of your dreams. New episodes drop each week.
On a personal note, losing Penny, our beloved dog, has been a journey through grief and adjustment for my husband and me. Her companionship was nothing short of extraordinary, and in this heartfelt episode of Melt the Glass Ceiling, I open up about the cherished memories and the emotional challenges of navigating life without her.🐶 I hope that sharing my personal story provides comfort and understanding to anyone experiencing a similar loss, reminding us all of the deep connections we form with our furry family members. ❤️
Shifting gears, the episode tackles an empowering theme: The Keys to Receiving a Promotion or Raise.
Are you feeling stuck in your professional life? Let’s explore strategies to secure that elusive promotion or raise. I delve into the significance of
🌟 skill enhancement
🌟 staying ahead of industry trends
🌟 the power of feedback
This episode promises practical guidance on aligning your value with company goals and provides a free resource featuring six additional strategies to push your career to the next level. Whether you're aiming to excel in your current role or reach new heights, these insights could be the key to unlocking your potential.🚀
Hello and welcome back to Melt the Glass Ceiling. I have been away for a little while. I had a rough week. Last week my dog, penny, who many of you have seen pictures of or videos of, she passed away and I'm very sad about it and some of you I've talked with and I really appreciate your support. Penny was nine years old. She was a rescue. She was a poodle Maltese Cocker Spaniel mix. She was precious. We had her for nine years. We were blessed. Oh, my goodness, she was such a doll. So we are we me and my husband are in recovery right now. We are grieving and I'm doing better than I was doing last week and I'm just getting used to life without her right now and really going through a lot of pictures and videos and remembering times with her that were just so great.
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Penny was a real companion to us, to me and my husband and my stepkids. We traveled with Penny. We took Penny out to eat. We took Penny to the park. We spent all of our time with Penny, especially since COVID. We just were together like 24-7 with Penny, which probably had its pluses and minuses. I don't recommend it. I don't know that it was necessarily the best thing for her or us. We were a little more independent before COVID struck and then we were just all in the house all the time and we got used to that and she was pretty demanding. Anyway, that's, I've been gone for a little while.
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I'm back and today I am talking about the keys to receiving a promotion or raise. This is something I see a lot talk about it with my clients, my coaching clients. I also see a lot of people looking for a promotion or raise in my Facebook group, my private Facebook group for professional women and I'll put the link in the show notes, and so I know it's an issue. I get questions about how to get a promotion or a raise on social media raise on social media and sometimes I get specific questions about interviewing and that and I'll talk about that another time but feeling like you're stagnated in your career, you're not moving forward the way that you want to, you're not getting the salary increases, the promotion that you feel like you deserve. Let's talk about how to switch that script a little bit and make sure that you are growing in your career and receiving new challenges and opportunities and recognition for those new challenges and new opportunities, as always, and new opportunities. As always, I've got a freebie for you with, and it has nine tips for you today, nine keys to receiving that promotion or raise that you may be looking for, and I'm going to go through three or four of those today. I'm going to see how much time I have, but I'm not going to get to all nine. So you are going to want to click on the link to get the freebie and get that downloaded and so that you get all nine, because some of these will work for you, some of them may not. You may be one of those people who can apply all nine and really take your performance to the next level, so that you can not be ignored, but we'll see. You may want to just pick a few and I want to make sure that you have access to all of them. So be sure to get that download. So let's talk about let's talk about three and see if we have time for four.
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The first one I'm going to talk about is become better at your job. Think about what can you do. I know you're good at your job. I know you're great at your job. What can you do to become more effective, more efficient, to have even more of an impact. Is there a way, are there some skills that you can improve on? Is there a way to learn a new software, a new application, a new skill that can make you even better at your job, so that you go from being an A to an A plus performer because you want to be that person, so become better at your job. Promotions and raises go to the people who have earned them, who consistently step up. So, like I said, you want to be that person. You want to be the person who stands out in a good way and in a good way and deserves that next promotion, raise or opportunity. Grow as much as you can regarding that expertise that you have in your job. If you can nudge that even further, get even better, take a course, go to a workshop, attend a conference, read a book, watch some TED Talks what can you get even a little bit better at?
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For a long time, I did public speaking. I still sometimes do public speaking and I sometimes taught, for there was a time in my career when I taught public speaking. But public speaking is something that there are always new tools, new presentation tools, new standards for speakers in public events and also internal at your company and it was important for me to continuously and I benefited from, I was rewarded and recognized for continuously learning what's new, what's cutting edge, what are the new tools, what is the new software, what's something really on the front edge of that skillset? And I would research that and see if I could go to a class or even watch some videos online some YouTube videos online to learn how to apply new techniques and skills to my slides or to my presentation or to the interactive parts of my workshops, and that way I was staying ahead of the competition.
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So think about what you can do if you're really good at spreadsheets and that's a big part of your job, or finance, and that's a big part of your job or reports or record keeping or hiring, whatever it is that your skill is that you are good at. Find out how you can even do that better. What is the new great thing? How can AI be applied to what you do? What new application softwares skills can help make your work stand out even more? Stand out from the crowd. Research that and see what you can learn through a workshop or videos or books, or maybe a co-worker can teach you something new.
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I've learned so many things from on everything from how to do spreadsheets to how to add something new to a PowerPoint presentation. I've learned that from coworkers and peers and watching people and just asking people gosh, how did you add that incredible animation or that incredible graphic to your presentation or to whatever it is that your report, whatever it is that you're working on? Ask questions, be open-minded and learn, because you want to become better at your job so that you stand out as someone who's not only great at their job but continuously improving and really standing out from the crowd. So that's number one become better at your job. On to number two be visible. You really have to be visible for people to know about your skills and the value that you're adding to the organization, so that people who are decision makers understand who you are and the value that you're adding to the organization, so that people who are decision makers understand who you are and the value that you bring. If you do great things but no one knows about them and you add great value but nobody knows about them, then you're not getting the most out of your effort for your career. So ensure that people know about the great things that you're doing and that the right people know.
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Choose assignments that have greater visibility. If you have the opportunity to give a presentation, to submit a report, to be visible on a project, volunteer for that. Say you're interested. You want people to know who you are. When I was in talent management, working inside of large organizations like Baker Hughes and Bayer, you know, I got the opportunity to sit in meetings where people were making decisions about succession plans and people talked very openly about the value that you know Susie brought to the table and things they'd seen Susie do and, based on that, could advocate for Susie or not advocate for Susie.
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And that is the importance of visibility. You want people to know who you are. You want them to know your work. You want them to know about your style. Are you fun to work with? Are you known for getting things done, for accomplishing things? That when something comes off of your desk it's good, it's ready to go? Those are the kinds of things that executives spoke about in those succession planning and talent management planning meetings. Can I count on this person? Does this person really deliver results? Do people like working with this person, working with this person? And how on earth is someone going to know any of that about you if you're sitting in an office or you're working from home, all of the time in isolation, without interacting with other people and without you and your work and your work process and your work and your work process and your work style being visible.
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So volunteer for things. If your company has a new process, a new regulatory certification that they're going for, volunteer to be part of it. If they're doing something new to support community involvement, volunteer to be part of that. If a team is being put together to come up with some new process that's important to your group or important to the company, volunteer to be part of that. These opportunities add to your visibility so that people can see and experience firsthand the value that you bring to the table, so that when the time comes, they can advocate for you and say, yes, susie is ready, susie is ready for the next step. I have seen Susie accomplish great things, great innovations, be very creative. I've seen Susie solve problems.
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That is what you want. You want people to be able to advocate for you in those important meetings and be able to speak to the value that you bring and how you do that, that you know that in the end of the day when you've been on a team or a committee that people still like you, still want to work with you, value the energy and the accomplishments that you bring to the table. That's what you want and that's why number two is so important Be visible, okay. Number three get feedback. I know, god, this is just so cringy. Nobody really likes to get feedback or a lot of us don't so but we need feedback. It's absolutely critical and I am surprised how many times I talk with people in my Facebook group, on social media and with my clients, and people tell me that they're just not getting any feedback on their performance.
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Your feedback is information on what you are doing well and why that is important to the company or to the department, and how you can do better and how that is important to the company or the department. So you want to hear about what you're doing well so that you can keep doing those things and know that that is noticed and even maybe improve a little bit on those things that you're doing well on, so that you're just like a superstar. You want to excel and leverage on the things you do well and on your strength, so it's very, very important for you to ask for feedback from people that you work with and you work for, and leaders who are seeing you in your day-to-day work and seeing your work product and your results. It's important to ask them what am I doing well, so that you know what to focus on and to continue to excel at. You also want to know what you can improve on and why that's important to the company. You want to know how you're adding value to the company with everything that you're doing well, and how you're adding value to the company with everything that you're doing well and how you can add even more value to the company by improving on some of the things that maybe you're just medium good on or that you really need to grow in to be able to get that next promotion and that next raise. So Ask where you can improve Now.
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Why is it important to understand the impact that you're having to the company? Look, this is where you develop a sense of meaning and purpose in your work. You want to know if you submit a report every month. Where does that report go? Who sees it? Who reads it? Are people in your management hierarchy making decisions based on the information you provide in that report? That helps you to know that you are having an impact in the company and how your work is valued. So you need to know the meaning and the purpose behind what you do well and in the behaviors and skills where you want to make some improvements. Because that gives you your why, that gives you that reason to wake up in the morning and improve on those skills or improve on that work product, whatever it is that you're providing that you're going to improve on. That way you're not just checking a box or just going through the motions. You understand the impact, the meaning and the purpose of why you want to improve, how you can improve and the impact that your work is going to have when you improve. That gives you meaning and that helps you to understand the importance of why you might want to make some changes in your behaviors or your skills. Because it adds value to the company and that makes you a more valuable employee. That is great justification for that next raise, that next promotion. When you can show that you add more value to the company and have more impact, that automatically makes you more valuable in the job market.
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So ask for feedback and make sure that you understand the why why you want to keep doing certain things well and why there are some things you want to improve on that. You're not just doing that for grins or for something to do, something to keep you busy, but you want to improve on certain things and grow professionally, to have more impact in the company and to add more value, to be a more valuable employee. And you want to see those links. You want to see the links between changing some behaviors, learning some new skills so that you have more impact, add more value to the company and get paid more. That's your justification for getting paid more or having your job re-scoped because you're adding more value to the company.
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I've seen people say to their bosses look, I need to make more money. Okay, that's all well and good, but companies are not in the business of just handing out money because people want more money, out money because people want more money. They're in the business of paying for talent and paying for value that employees add to the overall mission or purpose or productivity or earnings of the company. So it's incumbent upon us as employees to find ways to add that value to help the company grow and make more money, so that we're more valuable, and that's the justification for making more money. So if you want to make more money, it's important to either enhance your skills or learn new skills or add more value to the company, because it's a business deal. You really have a business deal with your organization and they pay you for what you bring to the table, and when you bring more to the table, that's a justification for them paying you more. So you want to get feedback that's tip number three so that you know where to adjust and so that you can add more value to your organization.
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All righty, so you have your three keys to help you receive a promotion or a raise. We're going to stop here instead of going on to a fourth one, because we're getting close to that 20-minute mark and I like to keep it short for you. But you've got your three keys to receiving a promotion or a raise, and that is to become even better at what you are doing at your job, be visible and ask for feedback. And there are six more keys to receiving a promotion or raise in my freebie this week. Go ahead and click on that link and download that today, because there are going to be some more in that list that you can start applying right away to help you move towards getting that promotion or that raise that you want. Also, send me a DM there's a link in the show notes if you have any questions or you'd like to comment on what I've shared with you today. I'd love to hear from you and that's all for today. This is Lisa Lish. Now go melt the glass ceiling.
