Mythbuster: 70% of Your Promotion That Isn't Your Work
In this video
What you'll learn
The 30/30/40 promotion math nobody explains
Learn how calibration rooms actually weigh work, visibility, and advocacy -then score your own effort split live.
Send the Monday 3-bullet impact update tomorrow
Take the word-for-word template my coaching clients use, and turn activity language into impact language on the spot.
Turn a mentor into a sponsor with one small ask
Learn why mentors talk to you but sponsors talk about you, pick your one candidate, and get the exact first ask.
Why this topic matters
You were told the work would speak for itself. It won't.
Specially in Tech, promotions run on 30/30/40 math - work, visibility, advocacy and most high performers run a 90/5/5 strategy, then blame themselves for the results. It's heaviest for the "onlys" taught to keep their heads down and be twice as good.
Learn the real math, rebalance in a week, and change how your next review cycle reads
You'll learn from
Harpreet Kaur
Product Leader- Microsoft CEO-Why Blend In Certified Career/Leadership Coach
Harpreet Kaur is Principal Product leader at Microsoft with more than 2 decades in big tech across Cloud and AI, devices, and applications. She has sat on both sides of the promotion decision - the person being discussed and the person deciding. A TEDx speaker and executive coach to leaders at Fortune 500s, and a first-generation Sikh woman in Big Tech, she teaches the visibility and sponsorship system she used to rise without blending in.
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