Why Hard Work Alone Isn't Getting You Promoted
14m | Jul 15, 2026Most professionals focus almost exclusively on performance—and then wonder why someone else gets promoted. This 97% Effective Essentials episode introduces a simple framework that fundamentally changes how you see and approach career success.
Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com
SHOW NOTES:
- Performance and PIE
- Think about yourself as a product
- Does this mean I should stop doing great work?
- Why organizations are different than school and many sports
- 3 “sad but true” research findings that reveal who gets credit, and who gets picked
- Insight on perception from photographer Richard Waine: “You’re professional headshot is not about you.”
- Flip the script: how do others see you?
- “I” = Image
- The definition of brand and a quick exercise to uncover your brand
- A warning from executive coach Anne Marie Segal about typecasting – and the leap you need to make
- How are you showing up?
- “E” = Exposure, which can come in many ways
- How award-winning speaker Alex Tremble did two things to catapult his early rise in the Federal Government
- Exposure in a remote world
- Do you need to make radical shifts?
- If you don’t manage your Image and Exposure, what’s likely to happen
BIO AND LINKS:
Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).
- Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74
- Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelchangwenderoth/
- Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com
- Research cited: See Chapter Chapter 5 (“What the Evidence Really Says” in Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74
- Richard Waine on what professional headshot is really about: https://tinyurl.com/2wcmamkw
- Anne Marie Segal on how to avoid being “typecast”: https://tinyurl.com/39myjfzs
- Alex Tremble on visibility in the corridors of power: https://tinyurl.com/4paf4evj
- Get Promoted named Winner (Business-Careers) and Finalist (Business-General), 2023 International Book Awards: https://www.internationalbookawards.com/2023pressrelease.html
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