What do you do when your manager is clearly stalling for your promotion?
I started an AD role with the intent of being promoted to Director at the 2y mark. My conversations with my manager have been positive on my performance. When asked about a promotion to Director, he sucked his teeth and said that it takes tenure in the company , and , the quickest promotion he’d seen to Director was in 3y.
Color me surprised when I see a colleague who joined the company as AD being promoted to….

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… Director only 2 years after joining the company. Different team, same department.
This makes me wonder whether my manager is stalling my promotion?
For reference: the promoted employee is slightly younger than me. Has less degrees. Works in a general role, has no direct reports. I’m an SME, no reports either.

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What’s the 2-year expectation/goal initially set by yourself or by you and your manager? Is it possible that while your performance hasn’t been bad, that you’re not growing or increasing your skill set to where you need to be for a promotion? Being younger with less degrees honestly has nothing to do with it if they’re a super strong performer. You’re manager may not be great at giving effective feedback and is trying to avoid a hard conversation, or the 3-year timeframe is true and this other person was just performing at an exceptional level

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Always start the conversation early expecting delays. before you’re ready or deserving to be promoted.

Once the conversation has been happening for so long, it’ll make it an inevitable reality in the pressure will build on your manager, provided your hitting the relevant benchmarks

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