Nassrawis… what a season. From day one, we knew what we wanted and what it would take to get there. We worked, fought and gave everything in every training and every game. It wasn’t an easy road, but we did it together. Thank you for believing in us and standing by our side every step of the way.
By the grace of God, I have a progress report for the donations to Pastor’s Segun ministries last week. I probably only sent his details to less than 50% of the people that requested for it….
There is a WOMAN somewhere right now who has:
No boyfriend
No helper
No sneaky links
Just by herself and fixing her life trusting God.
Wherever you are Sis, you will WIN.
@AskMichaelTaiwo The last sentence sumed it all up.
I've been in this situation. Even though I ported late, it was better later than never.
Although I'm not where I want to be, but there's progress from where I was.
If you’re not getting promoted every 18-24 months, your company doesn’t rate you.
I say this as someone who spent over a decade working for a company that promotes (if they do) once every 4 years.
The people they want as the CEO or in the executive team are getting promoted on average every two years.
Those are the folks the company truly rate. Everyone else is fodder.
If you’re not ok with this, you can change it. But like everything else, it will come at a cost.
You can job hop. This is the easiest way to do it. Move on if they don’t celebrate you where you’re at. And always ensure you’re taking the next higher step in the new company you’re porting to.
Companies love to shortchange their employees. They bring in a new hire at a higher pay or level who essentially doesn’t know more than the “loyalists.” Be that new hire. Don’t be the loyalist.
You can signify your willingness to relocate. Many careers often go nowhere because people don’t want to go anywhere. You may love Houston but your promotion within the same company may be in Kalamazoo. If you are willing to go to the latter, you can climb the next rung on the ladder.
Don’t accept any excuses they give you for why you’re not getting promoted: “that’s the structure”, “ you’re still learning the job”, “there are others before you on the line” and so on. The moment you concede, you will keep conceding.
Look, people take jobs or remain at jobs for a variety of reasons. The message here is not to leave because of stagnation. The message is to have a clear-eyed assessment of where you stand in your relationship with your company. Don’t let them gaslight you. These days, a patient dog eats no bone at all.
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@AskMichaelTaiwo This applies in most organizations. Sadly your fellow colleagues will start hating on you and think you are being favoured above them.
Don’t get mad at the players, learn the rules of the game.
I started at Shell on the same day on the same job grade as another team member.
This guy did the bare minimum at work. His performance was a “C” at the end of our first year. He got the same mediocre score at the end of our 2nd year as well.
Yet he got promoted.
I was livid.
I had much better performance ratings those two years and he’s getting the promotion?
I later found out that he has pre-negotiated his promotion before even getting the job.
He wanted to come in at a higher level but they gave him a lower one, the same level I came in with, with a promise that if he performed at a “C” or better grade for two years in a row, they would promote him.
So, it’s just contracts at work. He simply knew he could do that and did.
We started on the same day on the same job level, but we were not the same. He was operating with a different agreement.
That experience showed me that HR rules are mostly BS and so I started negotiating every thing. Instead of being mad at my colleague or my boss or their agreement, I learned from it.
Interestingly, I discovered that I didn’t hate the players or the game. Quite the opposite: I loved it. I got way more by the simple act of asking. I was surprised at how much I was leaving on the table.
Understand the rules. If you don’t like it. Get out of the game. But you can’t hate the players.
Look, you need to approach your 9-5 as a business. In the business world, you hustle, you negotiate, you trade (by barter), I give you this, you get me that.
Don’t let the company rules fool you…most of them are meant to keep the timid in check. Be bold. Ask.
Fortune favors the bold.