Career Advancement Communicator
Plan the career conversation you keep putting off
How this tool worksPlan one career conversation you need to have, such as asking for a promotion or a pay rise, and leave with the words: your opening, your ask, answers to pushback and a plan B.Hide
Plan one career conversation you need to have, such as asking for a promotion or a pay rise, and leave with the words: your opening, your ask, answers to pushback and a plan B.
Use it when
Use it in the days before a conversation with your manager about a promotion, your pay, how you grow, a stretch project, or being passed over. It suits anyone who does good work but finds it awkward to talk it up.
How to use it
- Choose the conversation. Pick the one conversation you need to have and who it is with. Add your role and what is in the way if you like; each obstacle adds a matching tip.
- Get ready. Write a good result and the least you will leave with, then your preparation: for a pay rise, your market research and figure; for the others, what your manager cares about, your evidence and what more you would contribute.
- Draft your words. Write what you will say at each step of the ADVOCATE or VALUE framework, in order. Tap "Start from this line" to borrow the module's wording and make it yours.
- Prepare for pushback. Answer the three most likely objections, add your own, and write what you will say to close well if the answer is no.
- Take your conversation. Read the whole conversation start to finish, then copy it or download it as a text file.
What you'll come away with
A one-page script for a single conversation: what to prepare, your opening, your ask, answers to pushback, what to say if it goes badly and how you will follow through, plus links to Rehearse and the Career Advancement Communication module.
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The conversation
Pick the one conversation you need to have, and who it is with. Everything after this is built for that conversation.
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