Your manager is your ticket to promotion

Well if you were to get a promotion now, your manager can't tell you yet. They probably don't have it confirmed anyway. And..now is not the time to confront at your manager. The time to lay the groundwork is April-Sep. I am sure it felt great ... but your manager is your ticket to promotion. Like them or not, warranted or not, if you want to stay in any team and get promoted, you have to work with your manager. The other option is to forever jump ship and get promoted that way. In fact this is how most people move ahead at fidelity.

I totally agree with this, but how do you manage to build a stronger relationship with your manager? With my manager it is almost impossible.

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I hear ya, but I've had 11 managers in the last 10 years. I cannot keep thinking that my manager thru Apr-Sept is going to be the same manager thru Dec. Nuts but so f-n true. For real, how can anyone ever expect to get promoted in place if they always have a "new" manager every 9 months. ridiculous. Been going on for a f-n decade!!!!!

Fair question. Fidelity does have a lot of managers who shouldn't be leading.

it can take a lot of time; have an honest conversation about what your place is in the team from the managers POV, how you can grow and take on more responsibility to help them. Then act on it.
if you don't want to wait, or if you have an insecure manager or a clueless person put in a managerial role, start looking for roles and start meeting other hiring managers. Use the 4-growth boxes to identify yourself as a person looking for mobility
Think of meetings with hiring managers as a 2 way conversations - they get to know you and you gauge if you would like to work for them and would grow in the new team. Get to know various orgs in Fidelity. Chances are you will enjoy working for one of the other groups
All of this needs patience and sustained effort over long periods of time
This is not the only way to succeed. You can be a superstar, brilliant, politically astute, short-circuit everything and rise up really fast. Chances are if that was you, you wouldn't be at Fidelity. Or shouldn't be.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I quoted @3xpn+1jLzhmmu

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