Now last time I made a video on salary negotiation.

I have been getting a lot of

positive feedback from you

and how much you enjoyed that video.

And how you value some of these perspectives,

coming not from an employee

but from a CEO, from an employer,

and what I share with you.

And I know you already using some of the techniques.

If you have been using some of the techniques

make sure you comment below.

Today we gonna talk about

the seven ways to get promoted faster

if you're working for a company.

Now assuming you're using some of the techniques

now you got your job,

or you've been working in a job for some time now,

what could you do to kinda move up the ladder?

Now, these seven ways

only

work

if assuming who you're working for

is not a freaking idiot, okay?

If you're working for an idiot,

you're working with a bunch of idiots, right?

Your coworker's an idiot

and it's a toxic environment,

this does not apply.

Assuming you're working for a good leader,

you're working for a visionary

and you are working in a very healthy, positive environment,

these seven tips will help you.

Number one, think like your boss.

Don't think like your coworkers or your buddies,

your friends at work.

That's not the point

because whatever they're doing,

chances are they might have some bad habits.

Your job is to solve problems

for whoever your superior is.

Could be your supervisor, could be your VP,

could be your director.

Doesn't matter where you are within the company.

You gotta think a few steps ahead.

Now, within my company we have

the kind of three levels of thinking everybody knows.

First of all you understand how I think.

How the CEO thinks.

Second you gotta solve problems.

Third, once you get very good,

you should solve problems

before even the problem comes up.

So, know how I think, solve problems

and then solve problems before it comes up.

We actually have a term within the company called,

my job, as the leader of the company,

as the visionary of the company,

my job is to drop bombs, right?

And we have actually a term, within the company

called "Bomb squad".

And their job is to catch the bomb

and diffuse the bomb, right?

'Cause I will be coming up with ideas, strategies,

initiatives or relationships,

I bring that to the company

but it's the team that helps to catch the bomb,

and then diffuse the bomb.

How fast you rise up

to the ladder

depends very much on how fast you can catch the bomb

and how fast you can diffuse those bombs

and solve the problems for your boss.

Not just doing whatever you're asked to do

but thinking just a few steps ahead.

And when you do that

you'll naturally get promoted a lot faster.

Number two, take extreme ownership.

One of the core values

within our Dan Lok organization is

extreme ownership.

That means taking responsibility for all your actions.

Now, in the typical corporate culture

there are a lot of

backstabbing and pointing fingers,

"Oh, it's not my fault" and

"She did that" and "He did that."

As a company it's not healthy to have that.

Now assuming you are in a healthy environment

you want to take extreme ownership.

That also means that if someone assigns a task to you,

even though maybe it's a team effort,

but the buck stops with you.

If it doesn't get done,

if you miss the deadline, you take responsibility,

versus, "Oh because she's holding another project",

or "That's his fault", or "I don't have enough resources".

That is not gonna get you promoted.

Because again, you wanna think a few steps ahead

and solve problems before it comes up.

It's not about resources.

It's about becoming resourceful.

So, taking extreme ownership in all things you do.

How you do anything is how you do everything.

So it's not just at work,

but other areas

of your life.

I believe this is a very good value to live by.

Take extreme ownership.

Number three, avoid office gossips and politics.

Now my entire career I've only worked for someone else

for one year

of my life.

That was it.

I was working at a supermarket making minimum wage

and one of the things I hated the most

about that toxic environment

was the office politics.

A lot of backstabbing, even though I was doing my best

and it's always

you have the people who belong to kinda this group

and that group

and you don't know who's gonna kind of back stab you.

Or they're talking shit behind your back.

And I just, I hated that environment,

because I wanna grow, I want to be better.

And I don't like to work in an environment like that.

So, when you're working within a company

don't try to get ahead by like

stepping down on somebody

or trying to set somebody up.

That's not how you get ahead.

Because a good CEO, a good leader will see through that

immediately.

Personally, within my company

we have zero, zero tolerance

in terms of office politics or

like all these gossips.

I don't care who that person is.

I don't care how valuable that person is.

I don't care how high-performance that person is.

If that person's involved in doing these office politics

I will not have that person within my company.

Because that's how you create a toxic culture, right?

And then it becomes a thing where

it's a conflict, it's always a struggle,

it's a power

pull.

We don't want that.

We want everyone to focus on the mission

and we go into the same direction.

So, avoid all those things.

Focus on what you do, do well,

help your colleagues, help your coworkers.

Support them and help them grow.

Then it becomes a very nice, positive momentum

that hey, we're elevating people

we're not putting down people.

So avoid all those office politics and gossips.

Number four, prepare for your next,

next

job.

Now this is very, very profound.

I don't care where you are at within the company.

Maybe you coming in a very junior position, right?

You're a clerk, you're admin.

You are a support.

It doesn't matter.

Because don't focus on this is what you're doing,

this is just what you're doing right now.

Let's say if you come in the company you are in...

in the admin role,

but your goal is actually to be the VP of sales.

That's where you wanna be in three to five years.

What you wanna do is

you wanna think about, if I wanna be in that position,

if I wanna be in that leadership position,

what do I need to do today

to get yourself ready?

A lot of people, they wait.

Oh, once I get that job,

once I get that promotion

then I'll figure how this works.

That's not how life works.

You need to think,

operate from you're already there,

doesn't mean you're acting arrogant and things like that.

I'm talking about operating

who do you need to be

in order to

be able to

handle that role, right?

If you're the VP of sales, guess what,

you need leadership skills,

you need sales skills,

you need organizational skills.

What are you doing today, right now,

to get some of those skill sets?

So when you actually get the role

you are not trying to figure it out.

"Well, I guess I could handle it".

No, you've been waiting for this

for the last three years,

for the last five years.

Like, now it's time to shine.

Now what's very interesting is

when you act as if,

write this down,

"act as if"

that's your position

you're thinking about how a VP of sales

would act, would behave, would make decisions,

would hire, would recruit, would develop people.

When you're thinking from that perspective

the people around you will see that, right?

And if your boss is smart he will recognize that.

And then you would bring up ideas.

"You know what, I think within the sales division

we could make some of these improvements."

"I notice like this area we're doing well

but here is an area that we're not focusing on."

"And I think this is something that we could do."

"Bring in more revenue."

You're already

talking about it.

You're bringing ideas on the table.

And your CEO will see that.

He's like, "Hmm, maybe this person could take that role?"

With a little bit of nurturing,

with a little bit of guidance,

with a little bit of coaching, right?

So, prepare, not for the job today,

for your next, next job.

Think ahead and operate from here, not from here.

And number five, share your ambition

with your boss.

I mean, he cannot read your mind.

He doesn't know where you want to be, right?

Where do you see yourself.

So don't be afraid

to share.

Hey, you know what,

manager, CEO, right?

You talk to them and say,

"This is my goal, this is my career path.

"How do you feel about that?"

And ask for coaching.

Ask for guidance.

Don't be afraid.

I can tell you that as a CEO

I cannot wait to have my staff talk to me

and say, "Hey, you know what,

"this is really what I'm working on.

"Like in two years I wanna get to this position."

"Help me."

"What do I need to do?"

"What recommendations?"

"What books would you recommend me to read?"

"What courses would you recommend I take?", right?

"What expectations would you have

"for a person in this position?"

But most people never ask.

But if you take the time and don't be afraid,

and you actually ask,

you will be shocked!