Possible Promotion
By JoeBruin88. Filed in Career and Life |Tags: Career, design, development, initiative, leadership, Life, project-manager, work
As I was talking with my manager yesterday about the next phase of our upcoming project, she mentioned that she had made an offer to two new people who will be joining us soon. I asked if one of them was going to be a program manager or project manager. As I learned in her response, my manager is the overall program manager. Of the four new people joining us, one will be the “lead” instructional designer (project manager) who will oversee and guide the design efforts of our team.
I was curious about a position that she mentioned a few months ago about someone who would oversee and guide our efforts with respect to managing deadlines, timelines, schedules, and direction of effort– I don’t know what term would best describe what this project manager would do. But she said:
How would you like to do that? You’ve shown initiative since you’ve been here. You’ve done a great job managing our efforts with [insert name of lame development company that we've been working with here]. Even though you will still be involved in the design efforts, I think in this role, your skill set will bring even more value to the project. You meet deadlines and are task-focused and those things are important to me.
Silently, I screamed with excitement. I wanted to tell Josephine right away, but I waited until I was driving home to pass on this great news.
I’m not sure if my added responsibilities will translate to a salary increase right away since I have only been with S Corp not even nine months. But with my one-year evaluation coming up in May, it seems that a pay raise is imminent.
When this position was described to me a few months ago, I did think to myself that I would like to do that since I know that I would be good at it, especially since the required skills fit so well with my gifts. But I didn’t want to mention it since I had only been with S Corp for a few months and it seemed arrogant of me to verbalize what I was thinking. So I waited for a conversation like yesterday’s to happen. With respect to the money, I think I may employ a similar strategy, just not asking or mentioning it. I’m not opposed to asking, but I’d like to get some feedback from some career-development people whose opinions I respect before I decide about inquiring about a raise.
Thursday, March 9th 2006 at 10:44 am
Did you get the promotion?
Thursday, March 9th 2006 at 11:05 am
Yes, I did. My duties and responsibilities will change to reflect this; however, I decided not to verbalize anything about a raise. My one-year evluation is coming up then, at which time I fully expect to be rewarded.