The “Promotion Playbook” is a guide that outlines essential steps for advancing employees within an organization. It emphasizes creating a transparent, fair, and consistent promotion process while fostering a positive promotion culture. Key components include:
- Promotion Process: A six-step framework for managing promotions, from defining criteria to evaluating and implementing decisions.
- Promotion Culture: Encourages practices like clear communication of career paths, fostering a learning culture, and promoting feedback and cross-functional collaboration.
- Promotion Principles: Foundational guidelines such as transparency, equality, consistency, meritocracy, and objectivity that should underlie all promotion decisions.
- Promotion Checklist: A structured guide ensuring a fair, compliant, and well-documented promotion process, including assessment, legal compliance, and training.
Overall, it provides best practices for organizations to manage promotions strategically while supporting employee development and retention