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> How to help someone get promoted

Any strategic or tactical advice is particular to each company. This is not a skill. The other skills include mentoring, so this seems a little redundant.

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It's different from mentoring. It's being good at making sure management is aware of your coworker's accomplishments. It's a managing up skill instead of managing down skill.

For example, when you as a senior engineer are in a meeting with management and without the junior engineers, it's important to call out "Jr. Eng X did this part of the project and did a great job".

That's what that skill is about.

Yeah, a lot of this is providing visibility to low visibility high impact work or Anchoring[1] work so people's impact is correctly reflected as a part of whatever review process an organization does.

[1] https://mekka-tech.com/posts/2018-08-09-the-difficulty-ancho...

I read this as “how to convince decision makers to promote someone.”

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