Promotion Skills for Emerging Leaders
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Analyze your professional impact, develop strategies to amplify your visibility, and create a compelling case for your next promotion.
Promotion Skills for Emerging Leaders
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Analyze your professional impact, develop strategies to amplify your visibility, and create a compelling case for your next promotion.
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Course overview
Want to take charge of your career and finally secure your promotion?
In today’s fast-paced workplaces, unseen contributions are easily forgotten. Your value isn’t real until it’s visible.
If you’ve ever felt like your hard work is undervalued or overlooked, it’s time to take control of your career.
This course is perfect for you if:
✅ You want a promotion and feel your hard work isn’t recognized or rewarded.
✅ You’re preparing for an important career conversation and want to make an impact.
✅ You’re ready to move from feeling stuck to being seen as a key contributor.
What We'll Cover Together
Over two transformative weeks, I will help you:
🎯 Identify your most impactful achievements – Prioritize how to pinpoint and articulate the contributions that truly make a difference.
🎯 Amplify your visibility – Stop being the best-kept secret in your organization by mastering strategies to showcase your value.
🎯 Build a case for your promotion – Craft a compelling narrative for your career progression that’s impossible to ignore.
🎯 Confidently advocate for yourself – Whether it’s a 1:1 with your manager or a performance review, together we'll evaluate exactly what to say and how to say it.
What to Expect
This is a highly-interactive course with in-depth discussion, Q&A sessions, real-life examples, hands-on exercises, and tactics you can apply immediately.
There will be a total of 4.5 hours of live instruction across 3 sessions, all live on Zoom. All the sessions will be recorded and shared so you can refer back to the material as needed.
Working together, we’ll create actionable steps to accelerate your career. Fully engaging with the course will equip you with tools to showcase your impact and secure your next promotion.
What You’ll Gain
By the end of the course, you’ll:
Be recognized as a valued contributor – Shift from feeling overlooked to being recognized for your contributions.
Build confidence to advocate for your career – Master the skills to speak up and secure the opportunities you deserve.
Develop a promotion strategy that works – Leave with a personalized, actionable plan to take the next step in your career.
Why Your Success Matters to Me
I know firsthand how hard it can be to navigate career progression when your work feels invisible.
This course brings together everything I’ve learned as a career coach, author, and founder helping thousands of professionals, at leading companies, including Google, American Airlines, Chanel, AIG, Mattel, and the BBC, take the next step in their careers. I’m excited to share these promotion strategies with you and provide the action plan for you to advance.
Ready to Take Control of Your Career?
Join Promotion Skills for Emerging Leaders today and take the first step toward the promotion you deserve.
This Course Is Not For You If:
❌ You’re already a senior leader with established influence.
❌ You’re unwilling to reflect on your work or make it visible.
❌ You’re looking for coaching on job search strategies.
Who is this course for
01
You’re an early career hard worker who wants a promotion but feels undervalued and frustrated.
02
You’re a quiet contributor who’s ready for more responsibility but doesn’t know how to ask for a promotion.
03
You’re an aspiring leader who feels stuck and is unsure of how to demonstrate your promotion potential.
What you’ll get out of this course
Create a promotion strategy to anchor your next steps
Moving up at work can feel overwhelming, but a clear plan changes everything. With interactive exercises, we’ll review tactics to guide you on promotion criteria, performance review timelines, and key decision-makers to clarify your next steps.
Identify your unique value and key contributions
Knowing your impact at work is key to advancing your career and gaining recognition. Through reflective exercises and breakout sessions, you’ll pinpoint your top three accomplishments and learn how to articulate their measurable value with a personalized framework.
Implement steps to ensure your work is visible
Visibility is essential for career growth, but it doesn’t happen by accident. With guidance and interactive exercises, you’ll map internal stakeholders, brainstorm strategies to showcase your contributions, and create a plan to ensure your work gets the attention it deserves.
Build a case for your promotion
Earning a promotion requires demonstrating how your work aligns with company goals. Through guided exercises and best practice examples, you’ll create a 2025 achievement tracker to showcase your progress, highlight your impact, and strengthen your case for advancement.
Ask for a promotion with confidence
Asking for a promotion can be nerve-wracking, but practice builds confidence. You’ll create a ready-to-use pitch, refine it with expert guidance, and practice delivering it in peer-led breakout sessions, so you’ll feel ready to make your case and take the next step.
This course includes
4 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
7 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
6 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Promotion Skills for Emerging Leaders
Course syllabus
Week 1
Feb
22
Session 1
Map Your Path to a Promotion
Week 2
Feb
26
OPTIONAL: Office Hours with Octavia
Mar
1
Session 2
Aggregate Your Achievements & Elevate Your Impact
Week 3
Mar
8
Session 3
Mastering the Ask: How to Ask for a Promotion
Post-course
Recommended Reading and Resources
Bonus
Book Additional 1:1 Time with Octavia
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Meet your instructor
Octavia Goredema
Acclaimed career expert Octavia Goredema is on a mission to help you unlock your full potential at work.
As an award-winning career coach, founder, and author, she has guided thousands of professionals to own their success, navigate transitions, and take control of their growth.
Octavia’s book, Prep, Push, Pivot: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women, was named a recommended book of the year by McKinsey & Co. Her latest Audible Original, How to Change Careers with Octavia Goredema, provides actionable advice for professional pivots.
Octavia created the Promotion Skills for Emerging Leaders course because she knows your career is your most valuable investment. This course enables you to make your achievements visible, make the ask, and effectively position yourself for a promotion.
Octavia is the founder of Fire Memos, a platform that guides professionals to record and recognize their achievements. Originally from England, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of her work.
Now based in Los Angeles, Octavia helps professionals around the world take the next step in their careers. You can connect with Octavia at octaviagoredema.com.
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Promotion Skills for Emerging Leaders
Cohort 1
$495
Dates
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Course schedule
3-4 hours per week
3 Live Sessions on Saturdays
12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
This course is designed to fit into a busy work schedule. All sessions will be recorded and made available in our student portal, allowing you to revisit the content at your convenience.
Live Session #1 - Saturday February 22, 2025
12:00pm – 1:30pm ET
Meet your cohort and working together we’ll roadmap the steps to move you closer to a promotion.
Optional: Office Hours with Octavia - Wednesday February 26, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm ET
Join me for an Ask Me Anything session - a dedicated hour to dive into your questions, clarify course concepts, and work through career challenges you’re facing. This session is optional.
Live Session #2 - Saturday March 1, 2025
12:00pm – 1:30pm ET
Working together we’ll pinpoint your biggest achievements and explore how to identify and articulate your unique value.
Live Session #3 – Saturday March 8, 2025
12pm – 1:30pm ET
In this final session we’ll develop and practice a ready-to-use pitch to ask for a promotion.
Weekly projects
Approx. 90 minutes per week
You'll receive assignments designed to apply the core concepts covered in our live sessions, with the option to submit your work for personalized instructor feedback.
Bonus - 1:1 with Octavia
Schedule a 1:1 conversation with Octavia to answer any final questions after the course ends.
How to Ask for a Promotion
Want a promotion but not sure how to start the conversation?
My free guide, How to Ask for a Promotion, breaks it down step-by-step, from scheduling the meeting to confidently delivering your ask.
You’ll learn how to prepare in advance, handle potential pushback, and make a strong case for a promotion with customizable scripts.
As a career coach, author & Maven instructor, I’ve helped thousands of professionals take major steps in their careers, and this guide will help you do the same.
Download it now and learn how to ask for your next promotion.
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