Keeping Your Head Up

Emre is a Chief Electrical Engineer and a member of the PMI Turkey Chapter.

  Career Development  

Bam! You just lost out on a promotion to your colleague. What do you do now?

1. Throw your coffee mug and watch it shatter into a hundred pieces.
2. Start writing your resignation letter, with an end word disparaging your manager.
3. Blame it all on the new appointed colleague and call him or her a snake.
4. Pull together an action plan to backstab your manager, using dirty tactics like exaggerating or distorting facts while keeping yourself squeaky clean.
5. Regularly gossip about your manager with anyone who will listen.
6. Lose your enthusiasm and constantly underperform in order to get your revenge.
7. All of the above.

As you can imagine, choosing one of the above options may result in you finding yourself tumbling down the rabbit hole and meeting the Queen of Hearts. (Remember what’s next? “Off with their heads!”)

It is never easy to thrive in a professional working environment. Competition with your peers, the stress of responsibilities, managerial pressure, ever-growing performance expectations and a whole lot more is always on your path. But aren’t those stressors necessary? Could you really feel the tenacity to reach your career goals without all of these obstacles?

No matter what the real reasoning behind a promotion, it is a known unknown. It’s a negative or a positive risk that …

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