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I did my job really well, and made sure that it was enough for sr leadership to notice. I also asked to take on portions of my managers role. For example, could I present during their weekly meeting something to my team, etc. I also always contributed during team meetings so that my individual contribution because team contributions.
I went for lead positions while working as an individual contributor and eventually found one.
Recently promoted (need to change my title lol) one thing I’ve always tried to be intentional about is not taking on work that isn’t visible to my leaders. I know that is easier said than done, and trust me I did plenty of thankless work along the way, but having leadership see your work and track your impact helped.
It took me 5 1/2 years at one job, with about 10 years of sales experience. I made my goals known and found a mentor about 3 years in. Her advice was be the obvious choice so I was already doing coaching, helping develop and being my personal managers go to for several years. With making myself the obvious choice that was the only buy in needed and as soon as the role opened no one was surprised it was mine.
I did this twice - became a manager in my 20s kind of by accident (last man standing situation).
I moved to my current company as an individual contributor and it took about 5 years to become a manager. Although I’d applied for multiple roles internally, it happened when my manager put my name forward to lead a new team.
For the two years before it happened, I was a high performer who mentored other people and served as an on-boarding buddy. My manager had explicitly guided me on this (and how to make it visible) to increase my credibility. This meant that when several peers became direct reports, no issue.
If I had to boil it down to a few elements:
1. What are the things you need to do to seem credible as a leader, to both seniors and peers?
2. How well connected are you with people who will know about opportunities to lead?
3. How does your industry and company shape what opportunities will emerge? In many companies, the only opportunities are those where someone is leaving the company.
And if you don’t know the answers to those questions, start asking questions to build a picture.
Final tip - you won’t be the only person who wants to know about this. If there’s someone you admire internally whose career you’d like to emulate, ask them to do a lunch and learn session and be the person to organise it. You learn, you increase your visibility, and you get known as someone who leads.
I had no desire to lead a team. A couple people asked me, but I have kind of a big life outside of work because my husband is a public figure, but he encouraged me to say yes after saying no so many times. I’m really glad I did.