What do you do when you’ve agreed to promote something and it’s a total flop? Maybe it’s not resonating with your audience. Perhaps the sales funnel isn’t converting. Or for reasons beyond your understanding, it’s just not working. What do you do?
A reader who wishes to remain anonymous was recently going through this exact problem. He agreed to promote someone’s launch and it tanked.
Everyone wants more face time with their boss.
Face time with your boss equals:
You will have more influence with your boss, a better relationship with him or her, get inside knowledge that will help you…all of which will lead to you performing better on the job. You will also be more likely to be promoted than those with not as much face time.
In the post Do You Want to Know My Number One Leadership Tool?, Mark asked a question in the comments about how to approach his boss about doing one-on-one meetings with him. I’ve written numerous posts about the power of one-on-one meetings for leaders, but never from the other side. The fact is, that if they are as effective as I say they are (they are), but your leader is not doing them, then you should make an attempt to do them.
The single most important question to ask when determining if you should promote a leader is: Does he or she have a ready-made replacement? Has she delegated well and trained her people well and, thus made herself easily replaceable? If the answer is “no” it means that she has not delegated or trained well. Not […]