Ways of Achieving Promotion and Success in an Organization

Speaking in front of large audience and presenting yourself on stage to demonstrate your prospective to audience is very common in business today. In today's business environment, only those people get promotions and reach to the top management levels that are good in presenting themselves and giving presentations.

To achieve success in business environment today is very difficult because there is very tough competition within the organization. And from large number of work force only few are promoted to the top managerial level and the management pick only those employees, who are good in presentations, are passionate and dress well.

This article will help you in achieving success and promotion in your organization, I am describing some key skills which you should polish in order to achieve success and promotion in your organization.

Dress well

Dressing is very important in achieving success in organizations, though many organizations have proper dress code which is compulsory for the employees to follow; but still many employees make mistake in selecting the color of the dress. In official environment, wear only light color shirts; white, cream and light blue shirts are recommended. Do not wear any other color of shirt in office, and avoid printed shirts as well, wear only simple shirts with no or little pattern.

Wear dark trouser with the shirts, black and navy blue colors are recommended. Neck Tie is very important so select it very wisely, try to wear plain neck tie or one with very little textures and prints, the tie with broad lines in print and plain are mostly recommended. Always wear tie in contrast to the shirt so it should look prominent.

Improve Presentation Skills

Presentation skills are very important in order to get promotion in work place. For giving an effective presentation, always remember following points:

Give presentation with passion to gain audience interest.
Make attractive and colorful slides to make your presentation effective, make your slides colorful and use charts and graphs to explain different points, but don't use too much colors in your presentation, it will leave a bad impression.
Prepare your presentation thoroughly and try to rehearse the presentation at night before sleeping, don't think too much about the presentation right before the presentation.
While speaking, speaks at normal speed and at normal pitch, don't shout and don't speak very low keep your voice normal.
Keeping an eye contact with audience during presentation is very important, it helps you express your point and keep audience intact as well.
Don't stand still, because no one listens to statues. Use your hand expressions and do some movements on stage to show your enthusiasm and passions. But don't overdo it.
Ask few questions during presentation to keep audience intact.

You can improve your presentations by following these points and improving your presentation will make you prominent in the eye of upper management and you will get more recommendations for promotion.

Show Loyalty to Organization by Giving Suggestions

Every organization values its loyal employees and loyal employees get promotion. If you want promotion in an organization then show your loyalty to the organization. You can show the loyalty to organization by giving time to time suggestions regarding improvements to your managers. Write few letters to the head office as well with the consent of your immediate supervisor. Do extra task other than your job description. Ask mangers from time to time regarding your shortcomings and ask their suggestions for improvement in your work. If managers ask you to work on weekends then don't hesitate, sacrifice some of your weekends, it will benefit you in the long run.

Keep a healthy relationship with all your colleagues, supervisors and juniors

These are some small points but following these points can help you in getting early promotions and you can get a position at higher level of organization by following these points.

Remember one thing; these are not alternative to performance, so if your performance is poor, then you will not get promotion even if you follow these points. So keep your performance high and follow these points and see that your career will get a boost and you will find success.