Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive.

I was getting a little disconcerted with frequent development meetings and not being sure what to focus on. This book is a gem! While the title is catchy, promotions are still obviously a thing. What I love about this book is that it touches more deeply on the other facets of development yo get to the heart of individual needs and desires for growth.Through checklists and assessments, I discovered what it is I actually want in a career journey, and it's not what I thought. I appreciate the author's framing of this issue and immediately purchased a copy to share with my supervisor, too.Bottom line: rich investigation of what professional development means in an individual sense. Well worth it!

Julie Winkel Giulioni's "Promotions Are So Yesterday" really resonated with me. Early in my career, I had a mentor advise me to get experience in operations, sales and marketing, and finance and accounting so I would learn the business and build a strong foundation for continued career growth. It was good advice. Rather than obsessing about promotions, I made career moves to gain knowledge and be challenged by new experiences. It was fascinating to learn how the parts of organizations worked together and make friends with colleagues who had different areas of expertise.In time, leadership opportunities opened up to me. So did opportunities to move into other industries. I moved from semiconductors to geophysical services, to Wall Street (where I worked in municipal finance, corporate finance, money management, and private wealth management), and finally to leadership training and coaching (I'm old, as you might guess). It's been, and continues to be, an enjoyable journey, although there were some painful jobs along the way.Reading Winkel Giulioni's book and the different dimensions of development she covers brought back memories of the different seasons in my career, what I enjoyed about them and how I grew from those experiences. What Ms. Winkel Giulioni writes is so practical and wise.This is a great book for those who are responsible for helping others develop. It's also a book that would benefit anyone giving thought to the many ways in which they can learn and grow in the context of their career.Most people today will work for 50+ years and ideally have two or more careers so they don't grow bored. A thoughtful career guide like "Promotions Are SO Yesterday" will help them make wise decisions along the way.

I have been in the "People" business whether directly or in most cases managerially for the past 20 years. Giulioni's book opened up the language we can use as people leaders in organizations on how to talk about careers beyond "titles" and "climb". I have questioned the "Taylorian" view of organizations but have not found the language to broaden that view. Giulioni's book is so timely and easy to understand that it makes my buy-in simpler. I am trying it out with my team and they even said, "I was never asked to define my career differently except to climb the ladder of promotions." It's humanizing to see the different ways we think about our career in the different stages of our lives. Highly recommended for folks whose C-Suite is questioning the merit of the climb. It is not sustainable and sees career only from the perspective of the employer. Giulioni's book opens more doors for us in large or small businesses to chart careers with our team that is co-created.

Winkle Giulioni shares a compelling overview of how we can begin to shift away from our desire to climb the ladder at work and toward more fulfilling aspirations. If leaders follow the guidance in this book, each of us will feel happier, more empowered and successful at work, independent of our title.

This book is not only timely, but critical given the new workforce landscape. If you want to thrive in this new virtual work force you have to harvest what belongs to you and belongs to your employer in a completely different way.The way Giuliani positions the problem is compelling and challenges the historical perspective that many, like me have, about the nature of career development and climbing the corporate ladder. This book helped me change my perspective and will help me be a better leader.Some of these insights are profound. Many corporate structures have contracted and layers of management are no longer available for increase of salary via promotion. What has happened is that innovation an opportunity for engagement and learning has never been higher. If we all tap into this then work and life satisfaction conjoin and the maddening pursuit of promotions will be so yesterday.The other truth is the new workforce sees the corporate world as a large classroom; we have to embrace that fact and frameworks contained in this book will keep employees engaged and acquiring.This was a wakeup call as a leader. The joy of work is a dialogue, a plan and intentional action. Without the framework outlined in this book it is difficult to have the level of engagement that makes an organization truly special to work for and be a part of.Let’s all engage.

The tile is a hype/clickbait style to catch attention for those organizations who need to sell the "new narrative" that "promotions are so yesterday". sure, no one needs to get promoted every 6months to see their effort recognized, there are other ways, but you don't need a book to tell you that. The message here is to help orgs promoting their "we don't want to promote people internally too much to save costs" type of mentality. And all your read is either common knowledge stuff like "give the person a more challenging tasks/more responsibilities without promo" or some non sense ideas/

The books is a useful tool and offers managers insights to redefine an employee 's career and help them thrive. It urges managers to help employees retrospect choice and autonomy in their existing role. A must read