Episode Details

Do you keep doing brilliant work and getting warm reviews while the VP title goes to someone you outwork every single day? If you want to know how to get promoted from director to vice president, the answer is not working harder. It is becoming someone your senior leaders can already picture in that next chair.

In this episode of the SisterSmart Leadership podcast, executive coach Jill Avey takes you inside one woman's year. The year she went from passed over to promoted. Hidden inside her story are the five things that actually separate directors from VPs. We call them the Big Five of Strategy®.

You will learn why a promotion is a bet on your future rather than a prize for your past, what the feedback "be more strategic" actually means and how to let senior leaders watch you think so your best ideas stop staying locked inside your head.

Jill also shares research from Yale, MIT and the University of Minnesota on 30,000 employees that reveals the real reason so many high performing women keep getting passed over for promotion.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why being the most capable person on the team can keep you stuck at the director level
• The Big Five of Strategy® senior leaders look for when they fill a VP seat: grasp the present, shape the future, move the system, deliver the results and adapt to change
• How narrating your reasoning out loud changes how leaders rate your potential
• Why one gap in the five is enough to cost you a promotion cycle even when the other four are strong
• Three shifts you can make this week to become imaginable in the next chair

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📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Study: Potential and the Gender Promotion Gap (researchers at Yale, MIT and the University of Minnesota) : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4747175

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Whether you are searching for how to be seen as VP material, how to get promoted to vice president, women in leadership advice, strategic thinking for leaders, executive presence, leadership potential versus performance, how to delegate as a leader or how to stop being the dependable doer and start leading at a higher level, this episode gives you a clear path from director to VP.

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