What executives really talk about behind closed doors when deciding w...

I've been in rooms where promotions get decided and some of the conversations that happen behind closed doors will literally piss you off. So if you're known for keeping your head down and doing hard work, sometimes people have the conversation about this person is good at what they do, they work hard, they're really loyal. If we don't promote them right now, it's fine, they'll stay. Another one is this person is really good at what they do, but they're difficult to work with so we can't promote them because they will cause too much friction within the organization. Another one that's real and is probably going to piss you off the most is this person is really good at what they do. I can't lose them on my team so I don't want to promote them because they need to continue doing the work that they do today for me. And then another one is when you've been having conversations with your manager centered around how hard you work, your manager uses that to defend your promotion. Executives are like, great, they work hard, that's what we hired them for, that isn't deserving of a promotion. I'm Ashley, I'm a former tech executive, turned executive coach, I write a weekly newsletter called Reframed where I talk about all these secrets once a week, the link is in my bio.