Welcome to Manager Tools.

Today's cast, Good lieutenants make good captains, chapter 1, part 1.

The questions this cast answers are, what are the intangibles of getting promoted?

What do bosses look for to decide who gets promoted?

And how can I improve the perception of my leadership abilities?

If you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.

It may sound weird to say this, but if you're thinking about Christmas gifts,

one of the things that I've gotten for people in the last couple of years is a personal license to our website.

Specifically, when I did it, it was for some friends who were new managers who kept asking me questions

and I sent them show notes a few times and then realized, you know what, I could just solve this problem

and give them a license.

And if you are looking for Christmas gifts for your professional friends

and maybe looking also to kind of warm up your network and help some people out,

a lot of people's jobs are changing right now, the market is intense

and it might be that someone you know could use a personal license for the next step of their career

and it's just about the holiday time.

So I just wanted to put that out there if you want a personal license.

It comes with all the show notes, it comes with some newsletter from us

and honestly a lot of support as well for those new managers who are just starting

and maybe asking you a lot of questions and you could kind of help them ask those questions of us instead.

So if you're looking for a personal license or you're looking to gift a personal license,

you can come to the website and grab one of those and help a friend and also maybe yourself.

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