Great work kept me stuck until I learned how to make myself impossible to ignore.
The career clichés you were fed are lies.
They keep you compliant, quiet, and easy to overlook.
Here’s how to kill them and what to do instead if you want to get promoted in this decade.
1️⃣ ❌ Do great work, and it will speak for itself.
✅ Great work is silent. Amplify it or it dies in the dark.
🎯 Send a short update to 3–5 stakeholders linking your win to a business metric. Name others who helped. It makes you look like a leader.
⚠️ Ignore this, and you’ll stay the workhorse. Too valuable to lose, too invisible to promote.
2️⃣ ❌ Your results will get you promoted.
✅ They’ll keep you in your current job producing for someone else.
🎯 Build relationships with 2–3 senior leaders outside your reporting line.
⚠️ Ignore this, and someone less capable but more visible will leapfrog you.
3️⃣ ❌ Avoid politics at all costs.
✅ That’s how you stay powerless. Play or get played.
🎯 Map who influences promotions in your organisation. Build alliances with them.
⚠️ Ignore this and you’ll be shut out of the rooms where decisions are made.
4️⃣ ❌ Just be yourself.
✅ Be the strategically positioned version of yourself that gets invited into decisions.
🎯 In high-visibility moments, speak early, ask sharp questions, link to business goals.
⚠️ Ignore this and you’ll be typecast in your current role forever.
5️⃣ ❌ Stay humble and you’ll be rewarded.
✅ Stay humble and you’ll watch less qualified people climb over you.
🎯 Make your wins known weekly. LinkedIn post, team call, quick update.
⚠️ Ignore this and you’ll be seen as reliable support, not leadership material.
6️⃣ ❌ Never say no.
✅ Say no strategically. It shows your time is valuable.
🎯 Decline with an alternative: “I can’t take this now, but here’s a faster path forward…”
⚠️ Ignore this, and you’ll be drowning in work that will not get you promoted.
7️⃣ ❌ Your boss controls your career.
✅ A room of people you’ve never met does and they don’t promote strangers
🎯 Ask your boss, “Who else needs to know my work?” Then meet them.
⚠️ Ignore this, and you’ll be betting your future on one person’s opinion.
8️⃣ ❌ Promotions are earned.
✅ They’re staged, scripted, and sold long before the role is posted.
🎯 Act like your promotion campaign has started. Plant seeds with decision-makers now.
⚠️ Ignore this, and you’ll be on the maybe next year list indefinitely.
These aren’t tips.
They’re the weapons I wish I’d had earlier.
And they come from living it myself.
In my program From Hidden Talent to Visible Leader, I give women the playbook to win in a system built to overlook them without becoming someone they’re not.
DM me before midnight for the pre-launch offer VIP link before it’s open to the public.
Only for those who want to work. AND win.
The career clichés you were fed are lies.
They keep you compliant, quiet, and easy to overlook.
Here’s how to kill them and what to do instead if you want to get promoted in this decade.
1️⃣ ❌ Do great work, and it will speak for itself.
✅ Great work is silent. Amplify it or it dies in the dark.
🎯 Send a short update to 3–5 stakeholders linking your win to a business metric. Name others who helped. It makes you look like a leader.
⚠️ Ignore this, and you’ll stay the workhorse. Too valuable to lose, too invisible to promote.
2️⃣ ❌ Your results will get you promoted.
✅ They’ll keep you in your current job producing for someone else.
🎯 Build relationships with 2–3 senior leaders outside your reporting line.
⚠️ Ignore this, and someone less capable but more visible will leapfrog you.
3️⃣ ❌ Avoid politics at all costs.
✅ That’s how you stay powerless. Play or get played.
🎯 Map who influences promotions in your organisation. Build alliances with them.
⚠️ Ignore this and you’ll be shut out of the rooms where decisions are made.
4️⃣ ❌ Just be yourself.
✅ Be the strategically positioned version of yourself that gets invited into decisions.
🎯 In high-visibility moments, speak early, ask sharp questions, link to business goals.
⚠️ Ignore this and you’ll be typecast in your current role forever.
5️⃣ ❌ Stay humble and you’ll be rewarded.
✅ Stay humble and you’ll watch less qualified people climb over you.
🎯 Make your wins known weekly. LinkedIn post, team call, quick update.
⚠️ Ignore this and you’ll be seen as reliable support, not leadership material.
6️⃣ ❌ Never say no.
✅ Say no strategically. It shows your time is valuable.
🎯 Decline with an alternative: “I can’t take this now, but here’s a faster path forward…”
⚠️ Ignore this, and you’ll be drowning in work that will not get you promoted.
7️⃣ ❌ Your boss controls your career.
✅ A room of people you’ve never met does and they don’t promote strangers
🎯 Ask your boss, “Who else needs to know my work?” Then meet them.
⚠️ Ignore this, and you’ll be betting your future on one person’s opinion.
8️⃣ ❌ Promotions are earned.
✅ They’re staged, scripted, and sold long before the role is posted.
🎯 Act like your promotion campaign has started. Plant seeds with decision-makers now.
⚠️ Ignore this, and you’ll be on the maybe next year list indefinitely.
These aren’t tips.
They’re the weapons I wish I’d had earlier.
And they come from living it myself.
In my program From Hidden Talent to Visible Leader, I give women the playbook to win in a system built to overlook them without becoming someone they’re not.
DM me before midnight for the pre-launch offer VIP link before it’s open to the public.
Only for those who want to work. AND win.