12 Steps You Can Take to EARN a Promotion Before the End of the Year

Have you been working hard all year and hoping to get that promotion? Check out our contribution to The Muse's article, 12 Baby Steps You Can Take Now to Get a Promotion Before the End of the Year.

4. Check Your Ego at the DoorHow’s your mindset, really?
The best managers are able to increase their skills and capabilities by seeing difficulty and failure as part of the process. If you can tame your own ego and place your need for constant recognition aside, you’ll likely find that you’re more patient, enabling you to show lower-level team members the ropes. What this does is send a message to the higher-ups that you’re a manager-in-self-training—and ready for more supervisory tasks.

Andrea Gerson