Pramath Raj Sinha argues you have to earn the right to new opportunities by delivering results first. Managers can tell who has done the work and will counsel accordingly. Headhunter calls and outside offers make these conversations more common now.
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And it literally starts by saying, I was thinking that I would like to do something else. What do you think? Am I ready? I think we should at least people with a growth mindset at least start there. They want to make sure that they have actually truly plateaued out or have truly proven that they are deserving of being given new opportunities. I think that's a very important point to understand that don't just demand stuff without having made sure that you've delivered or that you have the track record and that you have earned the right. I can tell very quickly as a manager when somebody has earned the right. And I'm saying, yeah, let's talk about what more you should do versus people who are like, hello, you know, you have so much more to do before you can think about doing something else. Let's first have that conversation. But people have already decided that, no, no, I'm much better than everybody else. I'm delivered more than I was asked to. I need that promotion. I need. You need to create an opportunity for me. And in today's day and age, it's even more so because they're getting calls from headhunters or friends or saying, you know, we can give you more money and you can get a better job and all of that. So I think that's the first piece about the growth mindset that I love it when people have the earn the right to grow conversation with me because that shows that they get it.