{"id":622,"date":"2021-10-27T22:57:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T22:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2021-10-27T22:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T22:57:54","slug":"getting-comfortable-with-self-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Getting Comfortable with Self-Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>I\u00a0have to admit &#8211; I am a lousy self-promoter. I had a midcareer epiphany that, in order to avoid being described as a &#8220;work-horse&#8221; (a back-handed compliment I heard way too often) I would need to make my presence &#8211; and my accomplishments known.<\/p>\n<p>I read a book, &#8220;Nice Girls Don&#8217;t Get The Corner Office&#8221; and it inspired me to change my habits. I adopted these basic self-promotion techniques:<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p>1) When someone asked about me, I would respond by describing 2-3 projects I was working on. Much more interesting than simply stating that &#8220;I was fine.&#8221; Or mentioning that &#8220;not too much&#8221; was happening.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p>2) I would accept the compliment. Period. Sometimes the lack of a cynical or self-deprecating response felt excruciating, but I came to understand that there was far more power by simply saying thank you.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p>3) Enough with the false modesty. I was raised to deflect praise, but then I heard Oprah&#8217;s mantra &#8211; no brag, just fact &#8211; and realized that my demure response made me appear weak, not virtuous.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p>I am still far from being the poster child for effective self-promotion. But I&#8217;ve realized that most of the time it&#8217;s really not about that &#8211; it&#8217;s simply about owning your self-worth.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0have to admit &#8211; I am a lousy self-promoter. I had a midcareer epiphany that, in order to avoid being described as a &#8220;work-horse&#8221; (a<a href=\"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/?p=622\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-long-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"rise-blocks_total_comments":0,"rise-blocks_categories":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":47,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":47,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"rise-blocks_excerpt":"I\u00a0have to admit &#8211; I am a lousy self-promoter. I had a midcareer epiphany that, in order to avoid being described as a &#8220;work-horse&#8221; (a back-handed compliment I heard way too often) I would need to make my presence &#8211; and my accomplishments known. I read a book, &#8220;Nice Girls Don&#8217;t Get The Corner Office&#8221; and it inspired me to..","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreataylorconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}