This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

The decision about your promotion is made in a room you have never been in, using a form you have never seen, against criteria nobody showed you. Here are 340 tools to see them: 211 ready-to-use question lists, templates, scorecards and procedures, 101 models and methods, 17 services shown on screen and 11 working files.

Open a lecture, take the template, and build your case for the next level.

Why working harder stops helping

Up to a certain level, results speak for themselves. After that, promotion depends on grades, review scores, talent pool lists and succession plans that are discussed without you. People who do not know how these work keep delivering more and wonder why someone else got the role.

What changes after this course

You understand job levels and pay structure, how the review works, how talent and succession lists are built and what the people in that room look for. You know your own direction, close the skill gaps for the next level and come to the conversation prepared.

What is inside: 340 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 47 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus 11 working files, including the Radford job catalog and leveling charts, a career options analysis workbook and a personal financial planning workbook
• 211 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 58 question lists and scripts: performance review discussion, employee development planning, professional credibility self-assessment, salary negotiation
• 45 templates and sample documents: goal-based performance appraisal, one-to-one meeting agenda, individual development plan, career path map
• 40 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: salary increase matrix, results orientation rubric, leadership potential assessment, succession readiness heatmap
• 35 step-by-step procedures: KPI appraisal, training needs assessment, GROW coaching, performance review meeting
• 27 checklists: employee review preparation, talent identification criteria, Google Project Oxygen manager behaviors, strengths and weaknesses recognition
• 3 other working tools, 2 metric sets and 1 ready AI prompt: ideal job worksheet, vacancy analysis worksheet
• 101 models and methods explained with examples: Hay job evaluation, 360-degree feedback, nine-box grid, SMART goals
• 17 services shown on screen, including Radford, Korn Ferry Pay Data Map, PeopleForce, 15Five and ChatGPT

Where the tools are

Job levels and pay (2 sections, 73 tools). What a grade is, how pay is structured and linked to the market.

The performance review (2 sections, 64 tools). The mechanism behind the decision, running the review and its results.

Talent (3 sections, 124 tools). How a company decides who counts, reward and career management for talent, retention and culture.

Succession (2 sections, 35 tools). How the shortlist above you is built, developed and maintained.

The personal work (4 sections, 72 tools). Talents, direction, impostor feelings, skills audit, materials, financial ground and recovery.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

At the STB TV channel, and at Preply while we waited for investment, we sometimes could not give a deserved raise at once. We promised the full 20% and split it: 5% from next month, another 5% in six months and 10% from the next year. It also worked as retention, because people had a reason to stay for the rest of the raise.

How to use the course

Start with job levels and the performance review, then use the talent, succession and personal work sections for your own move. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 38 lectures across 14 sections, 16 hours
• 47 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and 11 working files
• 340 tools across the lessons, including 17 services shown on screen
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Find out what grade or level your current role has and which one is next, then open the job levels lecture. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.