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The Ken Coleman Show

Some Job Promotions Are A Total Scam (Don't Get Screwed)

The Ken Coleman Show

Ramsey Network

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode: Your Next Job Promotion Might Not Be Real Worst Workplace Jargon Plus A Live Coaching Call    Next Steps ☎️If you have questions about your career, passions or talents, call the show at 844-747-2577 or email [email protected]. 📚 Grab my latest book, Find The Work You're Wired To Do  📚 For the proven strategy that will lead to a career that you love, grab my book, The Proximity Principle   Offers from Today's Sponsors This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp: Get 10% off your First Month of Therapy! Apply for a scholarship and get 10% off tuition with Bethel College   Listen to more from Ramsey Network  🎙️ The Ramsey Show   🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour 💡 The Rachel Cruze Show 💰 George Kamel 💸 The Ramsey Show Highlights 🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 📈 EntreLeadership   Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy

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0:00.0

Coming up, I'm going to tell you why some job promotion opportunities are essentially a scam,

0:11.0

and I'll help you avoid that.

0:13.0

And then we're going to talk about some of the worst workplace jargon.

0:16.0

New data out.

0:17.0

Oh, I might be guilty of this.

0:19.0

Let's go.

0:20.0

Helping you win. out. Oh, I might be guilty of this. Let's go.

0:25.7

Helping you win at work.

0:28.5

I'm Ken. This is the Ken Coleman show.

0:32.7

Excited that you're here. Here's my mantra. I want to help you get better.

0:42.9

Level up and lead well because you spend too much time at work in your life not to be effective and not to be enjoyable. So let's get to this. Okay, this is a real issue in the corporate workplace

0:50.7

today and it comes with a lot of tension and so I want to give you proper

0:59.6

context of what's happening and then help you navigate it here's what's

1:05.1

happening the next job promotion that you get offered might not actually be a

1:10.4

promotion that's the offered might not actually be a promotion.

1:12.8

That's the reality. Now, I hate this with a, with a tremendous amount of enthusiasm. Can I say

1:18.9

that? I'm trying to stay calm early in the segment. Okay. But Alex knows this stuff fires me up.

1:26.0

Because this is manipulation by management manipulation by management

1:34.3

where effectively they come to a person and they say we want to offer you a promotion.

1:50.8

And said person does what normal people would do and say, okay, tell me more.

2:06.8

And when the details are unveiled, it is a title change and a responsibility change, but it's not a paycheck change.

2:10.0

Does that feel like a promotion to you?

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