Your Career: A SIGN to Ask for More

Patiently waiting to be noticed, promoted, and/or let into the rooms where decisions are made can be risky because the workplace rarely works that way.
Ellen Taaffe, a Fortune 50 Executive turned professor, board director, leadership coach, speaker and award-winning author, has a four-step SIGN framework that can help you communicate easily with more conviction and shift from thoughts to action:
💡 Stakes
• Identify what is at stake for you.
• Finish this sentence: “For the sake of _________, I’m going to talk to my boss about my future.”
Let this rally your actions.
💡 Intention
• Consider your mindset and the way you want to show up in the conversation.
• Imagine that mindset and ask yourself, “If I believed that, how would I show up, what would I ask, how might I express myself?”
Let this guide your tone, questions, and agenda.
💡 Goals
• Set a short-term goal that could be the result you want from the conversation.
Many times, it is what you want to communicate, learn, or decide in your time together.
• The long-term goal is the outcome of action over a series of conversations.
Longer term, you may seek a title or promotion.
💡 Negotiables
• Recognise the give-and-take of the agreement you have with the company.
It’s so much more than salary, bonus, and vacation time.
• Asking and negotiating for other forms of support or reward can give you assurance and developmental opportunities.

Source • fastcompany.com
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