How do people get promoted? Have you ever an experience where you're really good at what you do?

You're reliable, you're on time, you're always getting your work done, you're focused, and people

actually can depend on you. But you see that others who seem less experienced or even less educated

are getting promoted faster than you. I've run four companies and hired over a thousand people.

Today, I want to share with you the four secrets of getting promoted that nobody will tell you. The first habit is to switch from

executing to advocating. So a lot of people don't understand this, but executing is different than

advocating for yourself. And when most people want a promotion, they think I'm going to execute more,

and that's what's going to get me the promotion. But it's not actually more of this that gets you

the promotion. It's actually switching to something different, which is learning to advocate.

Let me give you an example. I say this to my team all the time, which is, if a tree falls in a forest,

but nobody sees it or hears it fall, did it fall?

The same goes for doing work.

If you do work, you don't tell anybody about the work you do and nobody sees the work

you do, then does the work get done?

In their minds, from their perspective, no.

For you, you might be thinking, I'm over here working my butt off. Why do people not understand

what's going on? And it's because you probably are a phenomenal executor, but you're not yet a

phenomenal advocate. Back when I had my company gym launch, I had a director of our coaching

program, and he had moved up from being over sales to being over coaching. And I saw that he

was a phenomenal

executor but I noticed that there were some discrepancies in terms of he was really great at

execution but he wasn't the best advocate of himself and something that I noticed was I had brought

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