Just absolutely disgusting. Just know generally speaking when people see posts like that, they are absolutely disgusted. Just when you think you have sen it all and then you se these postings. Those that posted are a bunch of shams and nothing more.
Here are five reasons self-promotion is your path toward career demotion:
1. You Isolate Others and Disrupt Performance - When you focus only on yourself, you isolate yourself. You push people away. Who wants to work with someone that is all about himself? Some leaders believe that self-promotion encourages competition, but in the long run it disrupts camaraderie and makes real teamwork impossible.
This is why many companies are changing their organizational design to be flatter and less hierarchal. As the workplace becomes more efficient by doing more with less, self-promotion gets in the way of business growth.
2. Your Natural Self Gets Lost
Self-promotion is a façade; it’s not real. It is an artificial attempt to be someone that you are not. In the end, we all need others to be successful. You see the flaws of self-promotion all the time on social media, where people try to sell themselves as being important. When your focus is on selling yourself, your authenticity gets lost.
In the workplace, those that self-promote feel that they need to act the way their boss wants them to behave. They get caught up in “corporate speak” and end up being what others want them to be rather then showcasing their unique identity. In particular, I have seen this with Asian, African-American, Indian and Hispanic workers that are not naturally wired to self-promote, because their cultures emphasize the importance of a healthier whole.
3. You Lack Executive Presence and Influence
Executive presence requires balancing your internal state of mind (what you want others to experience about you) and your external impact (what others actually experience about you). When you spend valuable time and energy focusing only on yourself, you begin to forget about what matters most to others, and it becomes impossible to have executive presence.
Remember, when you have executive presence, people are curious about you and want to know more. You can create meaningful moments, you’re a good listener, and you’re focused on serving those around you. You have lasting influence. These things are impossible for a self-promoter.
4. You Destroy Your Long-Term Advancement
Self-promoters believe that they are creating momentum because people are buying their artificial presence. They may get promoted a few times, but ultimately they expose themselves.
Next time you encounter a self-promoter, challenge their agenda. Ask them questions until you are satisfied that they have enough substance to truly benefit those around them.
Unfortunately, I have witnessed too many self-promoters who have been major disappointments. When I was a young senior executive, the company I worked for hired a seasoned executive to round out our executive team. He used a lot of big words and made sure everyone knew about his resume. He was uncomfortable around me in staff meetings because he knew that I was not buying it. Not many people were. He then tried to convince our president that I was too young for my responsibilities. In the end, my performance spoke louder than his words, and he was fired for being too disruptive. His self-promotional efforts had failed him. Instead of blending into the team and contributing to our organization’s momentum, he thought his credentials were more important than the camaraderie of the team and focused on advancing his own agenda.
5. You Don’t Generate ROI for the Company
Points 1 to 4 make self-promoters a wasted investment for the organizations they lead and serve. This is why the recruitment and retention process is so difficult. The hiring team and managers themselves in many cases are self-promoters and naturally gravitate to them. Over time, self-promoters make it difficult for themselves to find their next career opportunity because their value proposition begins to diminish.
America’s corporations don’t have the time or the budgets to waste on bad hiring decisions. Today more than ever, workplaces are full of self-promoters that only care about themselves. Watch out for them, and don’t fall into this trap yourself.
Here are five reasons self-promotion is your path toward career demotion:
1. You Isolate Others and Disrupt Performance - When you focus only on yourself, you isolate yourself. You push people away. Who wants to work with someone that is all about himself? Some leaders believe that self-promotion encourages competition, but in the long run it disrupts camaraderie and makes real teamwork impossible.
This is why many companies are changing their organizational design to be flatter and less hierarchal. As the workplace becomes more efficient by doing more with less, self-promotion gets in the way of business growth.
2. Your Natural Self Gets Lost
Self-promotion is a façade; it’s not real. It is an artificial attempt to be someone that you are not. In the end, we all need others to be successful. You see the flaws of self-promotion all the time on social media, where people try to sell themselves as being important. When your focus is on selling yourself, your authenticity gets lost.
In the workplace, those that self-promote feel that they need to act the way their boss wants them to behave. They get caught up in “corporate speak” and end up being what others want them to be rather then showcasing their unique identity. In particular, I have seen this with Asian, African-American, Indian and Hispanic workers that are not naturally wired to self-promote, because their cultures emphasize the importance of a healthier whole.
3. You Lack Executive Presence and Influence
Executive presence requires balancing your internal state of mind (what you want others to experience about you) and your external impact (what others actually experience about you). When you spend valuable time and energy focusing only on yourself, you begin to forget about what matters most to others, and it becomes impossible to have executive presence.
Remember, when you have executive presence, people are curious about you and want to know more. You can create meaningful moments, you’re a good listener, and you’re focused on serving those around you. You have lasting influence. These things are impossible for a self-promoter.
4. You Destroy Your Long-Term Advancement
Self-promoters believe that they are creating momentum because people are buying their artificial presence. They may get promoted a few times, but ultimately they expose themselves.
Next time you encounter a self-promoter, challenge their agenda. Ask them questions until you are satisfied that they have enough substance to truly benefit those around them.
Unfortunately, I have witnessed too many self-promoters who have been major disappointments. When I was a young senior executive, the company I worked for hired a seasoned executive to round out our executive team. He used a lot of big words and made sure everyone knew about his resume. He was uncomfortable around me in staff meetings because he knew that I was not buying it. Not many people were. He then tried to convince our president that I was too young for my responsibilities. In the end, my performance spoke louder than his words, and he was fired for being too disruptive. His self-promotional efforts had failed him. Instead of blending into the team and contributing to our organization’s momentum, he thought his credentials were more important than the camaraderie of the team and focused on advancing his own agenda.
5. You Don’t Generate ROI for the Company
Points 1 to 4 make self-promoters a wasted investment for the organizations they lead and serve. This is why the recruitment and retention process is so difficult. The hiring team and managers themselves in many cases are self-promoters and naturally gravitate to them. Over time, self-promoters make it difficult for themselves to find their next career opportunity because their value proposition begins to diminish.
America’s corporations don’t have the time or the budgets to waste on bad hiring decisions. Today more than ever, workplaces are full of self-promoters that only care about themselves. Watch out for them, and don’t fall into this trap yourself.