2 habits that make you seem less senior than you are#careertok #fyp #careeradvice #executivepresence

I managed people that were genuinely great at their jobs, but not promotion ready, and they kept making two small mistakes that stood in their way. You might be doing one, or you might be doing both, and none of them are about your talent or hard work. So the first one is complaining, and I don't mean raising valid issues, I mean complaining. So there were some people that used my weekly one-on-ones with them as a venting session, and I had to coach them out of that behavior. So when I coach them out of it, what they were able to do is they would bring a problem to our one-on-ones, and they would also bring a point of view about how to potentially solve it. So the second one is kind of sneaky, and you may be doing this without even knowing it, and that is wasting your one-on-ones. Your one-on-ones with your manager are the most strategic hour of your week, and you should treat it like that. So I would recommend intentionally asking yourself before your one-on-ones what's the one thing that I want for my manager to remember about me this week. I'm Ashley, I'm an executive coach, and I wrote about this on my newsletter, Re-framed, and the link to that specific post is in my bio.