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July 18, 2025 27 mins

As leaders, one of our key responsibilities is grooming and advancing our team members. We may be overly invested in our people, or be apt to hold them to sky-high standards. Use today's episode to objectively evaluate the talent on your team and get them promoted, if it's their time. Get the free download at the first link in the show notes to use my criteria to evaluate your own team member for promotion, and to articulate their readiness in a compelling way. 


What You'll Learn From This Episode:

  • Check for unconscious bias as you decide whether to promote your team member now
  • The serious consequences of premature promotion and why it's not in anyone's best interest
  • How to have the conversation with your team member to let them know this is not their time for promotion
  • The criteria most often referenced when evaluating talent for promotion to the next corporate title
  • Unspoken criteria related to benchmarking, the organizational landscape, and level of autonomy
  • Criteria that reflects the hidden landmines when being considered for promotion that most often lead to rejection
  • How to use the same criteria to present a compelling case for promotion to relevant stakeholders


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