Karishma Maini - Career Growth Coaching

Karishma Maini - Career Growth Coaching Get the job, promotion & salary you want without boasting, being pushy or playing politics. Average increment clients got - New Job: 79.8% | Appraisal: 34.6%.

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Exactly 25 years ago, on 16th May 2001, I entered the corporate world with a job I’d gotten by answering a newspaper adv...
16/05/2026

Exactly 25 years ago, on 16th May 2001, I entered the corporate world with a job I’d gotten by answering a newspaper advertisement.
🗞️

Yes, those were the prehistoric… ahem… pre-LinkedIn and pre-Google times when job openings showed up in newspapers!
💁🏻‍♀️

From an entry level job in GE Capital to running my own coaching practice for corporate professionals, my corporate odyssey has taken me to various roles in multiple domains across continents.
🌎

In these two and a half decades, there have been scores of coworkers and team members whose support helped me succeed in different roles.
✨

But if there is one relationship that I believe shapes a corporate career more than any other, it is the relationship with one’s reporting manager.
🤝

I believe that it is this relationship that determines one's success, or lack thereof, to a large degree.

Because hard work is only one ingredient for career growth.

The other… is whether your manager values your contribution, trusts your judgement, and views you as someone ready for the next level.

And that visibility does not happen accidentally. 🙂‍↔️

But most of us do not want to constantly talk about our achievements or blow our own trumpet. 🗣️

We want our work to speak for itself. 💻

That is exactly why I created
👉🏼Your Guide To Getting Promoted👈🏼

Inside this self-study course,
I show you how to turn your everyday work into visible accomplishments so your manager sees your impact, values your work, and recommends you for a promotion.

🔗
Link is in the comments.
Course price increases by 50% at 10am IST on Tuesday, 19th May. 📈



PS: Here are 2 photos - ready for office in 2001, and in 2026. ☺️

27/04/2026

The more you ask for a promotion, lesser your chances of getting it!

Because when you walk into your boss’ office to ask for a promotion, it makes them feel cornered, and when someone feels cornered, they default to saying no!

Think about it…

If a friend of yours just now reached out to you suggesting to meet this evening, 9 out of 10 chances are that your default answer would be ‘sorry, not today’ or something non definitive like ‘let’s see, will have to think about it’...

Even if you had no conflicting plans!

Isn’t it? 🙃

That’s because when we are caught off-guard, our go-to response is a ‘no’ or ‘will think about it’.

That’s why, whether it’s your boss suddenly being asked for a promotion, or you suddenly being asked to go meet a friend this evening...

There’s automatic hesitation in saying yes because ⤵️

We want to buy time to mentally process that request. 🙂

When you learn how to position yourself for a promotion by making your work speak for you, then you won’t have to. 💁🏻‍♀️

In my pre-recorded, self-study course,

👉🏼Your Guide To Getting Promoted👈🏼

I teach you exactly how to make your boss recommend you for a promotion without you needing to ask for it!

📲 DM the word PROMOTION and I’ll share the details with you.

(Career Growth, Get Promoted at Work, Annual Appraisals, Performance Reviews)

26/04/2026

It had been 7 years since I’d gotten promoted. But then, I started getting promoted every 1 to 3 years. 🤯

Here’s what I changed ⤵️

I stopped going to my manager to ask for a promotion.

Instead, I made a strategic shift that got my manager to recognise the value and impact of my work… without me having to brag about it.

I call this the Data-Based Trust Accelerator method, and it has worked for my clients as well.

It works through three core pillars:

1️⃣ Invisible Effort Translation - So your manager understands the real work happening behind the scenes, not just the final output.

2️⃣ Ongoing Value Signals - So recognition and course-correction happen throughout the year, not six months too late at appraisal time.

3️⃣ Promotion Readiness Positioning - So your manager recommends you as the obvious choice before promotion discussions even begin.

This formula helped me get promoted in under 18 months…

Then again in under 3 years…

And then again within a year.

And over the last half decade, I’ve helped scores of clients get promoted regardless of where they are in their career trajectory (junior professionals, those in mid-management, and senior leaders)

In my course

👉🏼Your Guide To Getting Promoted👈🏼

I share this formula so you too can get your manager to recommend you for a promotion…

WITHOUT needing to have an awkward conversation with them debating about the value of your accomplishments.

📲 DM the word PROMOTION and I’ll share the details!

(Career Growth, Annual Appraisal, Performance Reviews, Get Promoted at Work)

It’s super awkward and nerve-racking to go up to your boss to ask for a promotion, And there is ZERO upside to it. ⤵️Bec...
24/04/2026

It’s super awkward and nerve-racking to go up to your boss to ask for a promotion,

And there is ZERO upside to it. ⤵️

Because you are likely to get one of these responses…

👉🏼 ‘No’ - Because when someone’s caught off-guard, their default answer is no.
(Wouldn’t you say ‘no’ if a friend suddenly called you just now and suggested to meet this evening)

👉🏼 ‘We’ll see’ - We all know that this is a gentle let-down.

👉🏼 ‘Maybe later’ - You’re back to where you were with absolutely no clue when that later will arrive!

👉🏼 ‘Yes’ - Even if you get a positive response, you have no way of ensuring that they will follow through. It’s all but an empty promise that you can’t hold them accountable to without having yet another difficult conversation!

Instead, when you start to learn how to position yourself strategically,

✅ Your boss starts noticing your impact�
✅ Your work gets recognised company-wide, and�
✅ Promoting you becomes the obvious next step
(You won’t even need to ask)

In my self study course,

✨Your Guide To Getting Promoted✨

I show exactly how to turn your everyday work into visible accomplishments to get you promoted without having to ask for it!

Link is in the comments.

24/04/2026

Here’s what NOT to do if you want to get promoted…

Do not walk into your boss’ office to ask them for a promotion!

Because you are likely to catch them off-guard, and their default answer becomes ‘no’ or ‘we’ll see’. 😐

Think about it ⤵️

If a friend of yours just now reached out to you suggesting to meet this evening,

9 out of 10 chances are that your default answer would be ‘sorry, not today’ or something non definitive like ‘let’s see, will have to think about it’...

Even if you had no conflicting plans!

Isn’t it? 🙃

That’s because when we are caught off-guard, our go-to response is a ‘no’ or ‘will think about it’.

That’s why, whether it’s your boss suddenly being asked for a promotion, or you suddenly being asked to go meet a friend this evening...

There’s automatic hesitation in saying yes because ⤵️

We want to buy time to mentally process that request. 🙂

When you learn how to position yourself for a promotion by making your work speak for you, then you won’t have to. 💁🏻‍♀️

In my pre-recorded, self-study course,

👉🏼Your Guide To Getting Promoted👈🏼

I show you exactly how to make your boss recommend you for a promotion without you needing to ask for it!

📲 DM the word PROMOTION and I’ll share the details with you.

(Career Growth, Performance Reviews, Annual Appraisal, Getting Promoted at Work)

23/04/2026

If you walk into your boss’ office to ask them for a promotion, you are likely to catch them off-guard, and their default answer becomes ‘no’ or ‘we’ll see’. 😐

Think about it ⤵️

If a friend of yours just now reached out to you suggesting to meet this evening,

9 out of 10 chances are that your default answer would be ‘sorry, not today’ or something non definitive like ‘let’s see, will have to think about it’...

Even if you had no conflicting plans!

Isn’t it? 🙃

That’s because when we are caught off-guard, our go-to response is a ‘no’ or ‘will think about it’.

That’s why, whether it’s your boss suddenly being asked for a promotion, or you suddenly being asked to go meet a friend this evening...

There’s automatic hesitation in saying yes because ⤵️

We want to buy time to mentally process that request. 🙂

When you learn how to position yourself for a promotion by making your work speak for you, then you won’t have to. 💁🏻‍♀️

In my pre-recorded, self-study course,

Your Guide To Getting Promoted

I teach you exactly how to make your boss recommend you for a promotion without you need to ask for it!

📲 DM the word PROMOTION and I’ll share the details with you.

It had been 7 years since I’d gotten promoted. But then, I started getting promoted every 1 to 3 years. 🤯Here’s what I c...
22/04/2026

It had been 7 years since I’d gotten promoted. But then, I started getting promoted every 1 to 3 years. 🤯

Here’s what I changed ⤵️

I stopped waiting to be noticed or trying to figure out ways to ask for a promotion.

Instead, I made a strategic shift that got my manager to see, trust, and back my impact... without me having to brag about it.

I call this the Data-Based Trust Accelerator method, and it works through three core pillars:

1️⃣ Invisible Effort Translation - So your manager understands the real work happening behind the scenes, not just the final output.

2️⃣ Ongoing Value Signals - So recognition and course-correction happen throughout the year, not six months too late at appraisal time.

3️⃣ Promotion Readiness Positioning - So your manager recommends you as the obvious choice before promotion discussions even begin.

This 👆🏼 formula helped me get promoted in under 18 months…

Then again in under 3 years…

And then again within a year.

It has also helped professionals across all seniority levels (junior, mid-management, and senior leaders) earn role elevations within three months when they applied the formula fully.

I’ve made a bite-sized course for you where I share this formula so you too can get your manager to recommend you for a promotion even if you’ve been in the role for only 2 years.

👉🏼 No year-end debates about what you’ve accomplished.

👉🏼 No awkward conversations asking to get promoted.

📲 DM the word PROMOTION and I’ll share the details!

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