323: How to land a promotion
16 December 2025

323: How to land a promotion

Design Life

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Charli and Femke discuss the common challenges people face when pursuing promotions, share strategies to prepare for performance reviews, and explore options for those who perform well but are unable to get promoted.

Timestamps:

0:57 Episode start

01:50 Catch up

07:25 What are the main challenged people that you mentored were having around promotions?

10:37 Thinking about promotions as a manager

16:01 Advice to people to whom it is not clear what needs to be done in order to get promoted

22:17 How to set yourself up for success l for the performance review time

28:32 What if you do a good job but you cannot get a promotion?

Links:

Femke's community

Femke’s course “Product strategy for designers”

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