The Challenge of Getting Promoted
Navigating a demanding and lengthy internal promotion process requires a significant commitment of time, focus, and hard work. You need to demonstrate exceptional performance, advanced skills, and clear potential for growth. The stakes are especially high at senior levels, where opportunities are limited, and the pressure to excel is intense.
It’s especially tough for women
It’s no wonder that going through a promotion process can be daunting and overwhelming. It can be especially difficult for women who face unique challenges in the workplace and often struggle with imposter syndrome, making you second-guess your abilities, downplay your achievements, and reduce your ability to showcase your strengths.
Introducing Elevate
Improve your chances of promotion success with Elevate
I’m an experienced Executive Coach specialising in helping career professionals get ready for a promotion. I’m passionate about helping women get to senior leadership roles, to give much-needed balance to organisations and to society. I’ve supported many clients in their promotion, including in Accounting & Advisory, Consulting, Law, HR, Project Management & Marketing.
My signature programme Elevate helps you speed up your progress, stand out from the competition, keep overwhelm at bay and get ready for the next level.
Steps to improving promotion success
- Tailored Support: Step-by-step support through each stage of the process, helping you understand what’s expected of you and keeping you on track to deliver it.
- Value Clarity: Uncover the unique value you bring to your role and organisation, helping you articulate it convincingly and authentically.
- Mindset: Cultivate the mindset you’ll need to handle internal saboteurs, such as imposter syndrome or perfectionism.
- Interview Panel Readiness: Draw out examples from your experience to showcase your success and how you deal with setbacks. Practise techniques for presenting yourself confidently and professionally.
- Promotion Action Plan: A clear, customised plan to help you navigate the process, overcome challenges, and demonstrate your potential.
Real people, real results
Elevate FAQs
Elevate is for professionals on track for an internal work promotion who want to invest in their development and improve their chances of promotion success. Whether you’re just beginning your promotion journey, or if you’ve previously gone through the process before but were unsuccessful, Elevate gives you that extra support to get you ready for the next level.
I have worked with various promotion processes and timelines. Elevate can be adapted to suit your organisation’s timeline and requirements.
Everyone has different strengths and areas for development during a promotion process, so that’s why Elevate is tailored to your specific needs. Not everyone needs to work on interview panel readiness; for others it might be being more visible at senior levels or addressing some difficult feedback. This ensures you receive the exact support required to achieve your promotion readiness goals.
Ideally, you would start working with me around 12 months before your likely promotion, to give us enough time to fully address your development needs and prepare you for the next level. However, I’ve worked with less than 3 months in the past! So I’ll always do what is reasonably possible to support you.
Not all organisations have a clear process but Elevate can be adapted to help you figure out the steps you need to take and ensure you have everything covered.
There isn’t a fixed timeframe because each promotion is unique to each person. Some senior promotion processes can take 12 months (or more) to prepare for, whereas some can take 3-6 months. It all depends on your development needs and where you are on the timeline. You’ll see your progress as we go along, which will guide us.
Coaching sessions take place online, with slots available from 8:00am. The programme begins with a 90-minute orientation session to define your specific promotion readiness goals and your measures of success. This forms the coaching plan, which guides the rest of the programme and enables you to clearly track your progress along the way.
There will typically be pre-work before we start and ‘homework’ in between sessions including a promotion action plan to ensure you are always moving forward.
The investment for Elevate starts from £2,500 for 6 months of support with 8 online sessions. I can provide a confirmed price based on your promotion timeline and your development needs. There are no hidden costs.
If you think there could be an opportunity for your organisation to fund your coaching, I can help you make a case to present to budget holders.
Payment can be made via credit card, debit card, or bank transfer and payment plans are available.
Simply book a complimentary 30-minute online introduction to see whether Elevate is right for you. There’s no ‘hard sell’ and it’s my intention that our time will be of value to you, regardless of whether or not you join the programme.
Ready to take the next step?
Book a free, no-obligation 30-minute online introduction with me. This is a great opportunity for us to connect and discuss whether Elevate is right for you. Plus, you’ll receive a complimentary ‘Getting Ready for a Step Up’ promotion planning guide, helping you discover what this promotion means to you and how it might impact your career and personal life.