625: Why Exceptional Work Without Executive Presence Won’t Earn You More Than the Average 2027 Merit Raise
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625: Why Exceptional Work Without Executive Presence Won’t Earn You More Than the Average 2027 Merit Raise

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 11, 202613 min

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities: Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted. Are you waiting until your performance review to make the case for a bigger 2027 raise? By then, the decision may already be taking shape. With merit raises making a comeback and average performance-based increases expected to hover around 3.5%, organizations have more reason to differentiate between their highest-value leaders and ev...

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Are you waiting until your performance review to make the case for a bigger raise in 2027? By then, the decision may already have taken shape. Welcome back to Speak Up, the number one rate business communication podcast where we help high-performing introvert leaders, including you social introverts, turn your ideas into influence

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and improve business outcomes because being brilliant does not automatically make you influential. I am your host, Laura Camacho, your career accelerator, executive presence strategist, and godmother.

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And by the end of this episode, you will know how to shift from reporting activity to communicating enterprise level impact. is what senior executives understand and remember. Build a simple impact portfolio and compensation narrative that gives your manager compelling evidence to advocate for you.

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