Now while so many of us are feeling insecure, this episode is to help you find the areas in your professional life that you can leverage to gain more visibility and increase your own chances of a promotion. Not to mention strengthen the safety of your current position, so that you don't become a redundancy victim of covid.

It's easy to fall into the shadows during the pandemic. To have your efforts completely go unseen. For one there's less contact and face to face interaction or meetings to get noticed indirectly. 

It's true just as much in our work life, the saying 'Out of Sight Out of Mind'. 

WFH with the Kids

But with limited face to face contact, how do you keep visible, so that colleagues and decision-makers have an awareness, and can indirectly see you performing and adding value?

In this episode we explore 5 creative ways to boost your visbility during the pandemic even when working from home. 

Even when you might have your kids running in everytime you get on an important teams call.

Because you can never truly predict when they might wander through in their nappy.
I remember this one meeting I had a major project status update I must have had 3 directors and a group of other stakeholders on a conference call. All eyes were directed at our department to deliver this critical project. And from the moment we'd launched the meeting my daughter screamed. And wailed the whole way through. It just happened to be nap time. my husband was wrestling with her to nap. And I wanted the call the end, the screaming to stop and I kept apologising. 

It's tempting in those situations to mute and sit back (fall into the shadows) and if I hadn't been chairing, I might have done. 

It didn't end, One director said oh your poor daughter,…. but the truth is my husband was taking the brunt of the problem so that I could carry on. 

And we know non of these challenges mean we do any less, that we're any less conscious, committed or adding less. I like you delivered so much during this time and now.

Working Extra

In fact, if your company cut back last year, you might be bridging the gap or holding down 2 jobs. I know Developers also being Business Analysts since they'd been covid restructure victims. 

You might be a Head of Department working hands-on like me helping your team to deliver for the business.

Maybe you're also running the double shift looking after the kids, without any grandparent backup. 

Why does staying visible matter?

For all these reasons it can seem obvious that you should want to work on quietly behind the scenes without drawing too much attention.

Yet to protect the job we have from being a pandemic restructure victim and to secure our chances of a promotion you need to stay visible. 

At the very least you must stay visible because: 

1. no one knows what you are doing or how it impacts on someone
2. you miss opportunities because you don't know what he next big initiatives are. We don't know what we don't know! 

5 Ways to Stay Visible and Boost Promotion Opportunities

In this episode, I run through 5 practical things, summarised below, that you can do right now so that you don't get forgotten you move out of the shadows and take the opportunity to develop your future leadership skills. Listen to learn more

1. Schedule Regular Catch ups

2. Be Physically Visible 

3. Help Solve Business Problems

4. Take Part in Initiatives 

5. Be the Light - Positive Progress

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I would love to hear what you have implemented and has worked for you.

To your career success

Sue