Promoting your best SE without a ramp isn't confidence -- it's an unmanaged risk
Ava tells the story of her own first leadership job: the title, the bigger number, and a comp plan she couldn't read. She and Nate work out what a real promotion ramp looks like -- and why the new leader's silence is the least reliable signal you have.
What Nate and Ava discuss
- Why confident self-presenters hide their gaps for months, and what to assume instead
- Screening motive without making it a pass-fail test
- Pairing new leaders with a mentor who has nothing left to prove
The move
Before anyone gets promoted, have them draft a 90-day phase plan with named milestones -- including one session on the commercial model -- and let them pick their own mentor from two or three people who have nothing left to prove.
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Your hosts
Nate Hargrove
The Seasoned Pragmatist
Ava Vasquez
The Modern Builder