From IT to Influence
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The Promotion Gap
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You've been delivering. The question is whether the right people can see it. These 10 questions expose the gap between what you're building and what leadership actually records when your name comes up.

10 questions
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Answer honestly — this is for you, not your manager
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Your 48-Hour Assignment
Three moves — pick the one your lowest score points to.
1
Translate one recent win into impact language
Before your next 1:1, rewrite your last project update. Replace effort ("worked on X for Y hours") with outcomes ("X reduced incident time by 40%, freeing eight hours of engineering capacity per week"). Send that version.
2
Create one skip-level touchpoint this week
Identify one leader above your direct manager who doesn't know what you've delivered in the last 90 days. Find a legitimate reason to close that loop — a brief update, a relevant question, a forward on something useful to them.
3
Name one potential sponsor — then earn it
A mentor gives you advice. A sponsor says your name in rooms you're not in. Identify one leader who could be a sponsor. Think about what value you could give them first — the relationship moves on that exchange, not the ask.
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