Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. ~Gary Ryan Blair
Advancement, if this is one of your personal values for your career, your job is to understand how you are evaluated, then exceed it.
The criteria on which you are evaluated are the criteria by which your company defines career advancement. These criteria may or may not match your values, working toward your values and ignoring evaluation criteria is not the path to advancement. Your job is to decide if you can work where you feel conflicted, or if you can still maintain your values while still exceeding their criteria.
Many companies fail to recognize disconnects between what they say they want for a culture and what they actually evaluate. What gets evaluated is what they build. If a company seeks collaborative and innovative – then what they measure needs to match those criteria.
For a company to say they want a fun and invigorating culture, but only measure margins and ignore behaviour and intangibles is equal to a brain wanting weight loss and going straight for the double-double chocolate cake. One does not equal the other.
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These practices include listening to employees and respecting their opinions, basing rewards on performance, and being available to them for everything from listening to their ideas and concerns to assisting them with their career advancement.
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I fully agree, and in an organization where that exists, the employee feels they have the power to advance. However, the cultural behaviours of the leadership are not necessarily in the control of the employee seeking advancement. In this case, the employee is tasked with discerning how advancement does work within their organization and these may be far outside of what “should” happen within healthy organizations. The employee then needs to have a clear understanding of expectations through 3 levels and what kind of activities are required to meet those activities.
Employees then need to decide if these activities match their value system and whether they are comfortable continuing to work with those values.
No, the field doesn’t move that quickly, and we need to give people time to develop something that makes sense for the volume within the context of their ongoing research.