Getting AheadThree Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level

Overview

Two employees put in the same hours, produce excellent work, and achieve similar results for their company. But only one advances to the next level, while the other faces the frustration of being overlooked for a promotion once again.

So what exactly makes one person more successful than another? The answer: leveraging and applying perception, visibility, and influence better than anyone else. While some people leave the fate of their careers in someone else's hands, others determine their future harnessing these three critical skills.

In this presentation, top executive coach and motivational, inspirational business speaker Joel Garfinkle reveals his signature PVI model-Perception, Visibility and Influence. Through practical advice, true-to-life examples and action-oriented exercises, you'll learn how to create the right image, increase your profile across the organization and exert influence by driving change and inspiring people.

Getting Ahead will put you out in front of the competition. You've done the hard work; now learn how to reap the rewards.

Target Audience

This presentation by Joel Garfinkle, motivational speaker for leadership, is geared toward new employees, midlevel management, future company leaders and minority employees. Participants will learn how to leverage and apply perception visibility, and influence so they fast-track to the next level and become both a valued employee and a sought after leader.

Primary Issues Addressed in this Presentation

Focusing your attention on perception, visibility and influence will have an immediate impact on your career. It will lead colleagues and managers alike to value and appreciate your contributions. During this presentation by California keynote speaker Joel Garfinkle, you'll learn how to advance quickly while gaining recognition, enhanced responsibility and increased respect.

1. Improve Your Perception: You will learn how to create the right image by taking control of how others see you, so that your perception accurately reflects your impact on the organization.
2. Increase Your Visibility: You will learn how to increase your profile across the organization and among higher levels of management by standing out and getting noticed.
3. Exert Your Influence: You will learn how to have impact and leverage your power to alter, change, and improve situations, regardless of your position or level of authority.

With Joel Garfinkle's proven PVI Model, you will learn how to:

• Gain exposure to other business units in order to interact with other leaders and peers.
• Get your name circulating among higher levels of management so others know you, see your results, and recognize the impact you bring to the company.
• Identify upper-management advocates who will endorse your advancement.
• Evaluate and eliminate the roadblocks that keep you from rising to the top of an organization.
• Be assigned high-profile projects and be recognized as capable and competent.
• Dispel any doubts regarding your abilities, influence, and potential.
• Boost visibility for your significant contributions to key projects.
• Evaluate how you are perceived and change that perception, if necessary.
• Get involved in meetings with people in higher-level positions, share your expertise, gain their respect and advance your career.

Tailoring this Presentation for Your Organization

This program can be adapted to a 60-120 minute time frame and is appropriate for any size audience. California keynote speaker Joel Garfinkle uses real-life examples gained from experiences with thousands of executives and will tailor the program to meet the specific needs of your organization.

Is this Program Right for You?

Getting Ahead cultivates leaders who make the key decisions that impact others. When fully applied, the PVI-Model produces both valued employees and in-demand leaders. As a motivational speaker and leadership expert, Joel Garfinkle knows how to customize this program for you. A good audience for this presentation should be able to identify with the following:

• Does top management often overlook your insights, perspective and influence?
• Do you accomplish significant victories on key projects, but your visibility is not high enough to receive major recognition?
• Do you believe that your work should speak for itself? That you don't need to promote yourself to create respect, recognition and influence within a company?
• Are colleagues getting more respect and influence than you are?
• Do you realize that talent, results and competence aren't enough to achieve career success?
• Do you wish your colleagues and managers would value and appreciate your contributions?
• Do you leave the fate of your career in someone else's hands?
• Would you like to be recognized as being highly capable, credible and respected by upper management?

Resources

Getting Ahead - Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level is an excellent companion tool to this presentation. Take the PVI-Model home with you. In Getting Ahead, motivational, inspirational business speaker Joel Garfinkle helps you gain effective tools and tactical approaches that you can implement immediately to become an invaluable-and noticeable-resource for your company. Make this book a resource for all participants.