How to Showcase Your Value to Decision-Makers

THE PROBLEM

You're out here doing 12-dimensional chess while other people get promoted for successfully sending an email with bullet points.

You're not invisible. You're speaking the wrong language.

THE CHEAT CODE

Leaders don't communicate "effort."
They talk impact, spoken 3 ways:

When you frame your work this way, people hear you differently.

⚡ WHAT TO DO RIGHT NOW

In the box below, choose one result from the last two weeks that would've fallen apart without you.

Translate it using this formula: "I delivered X, which created Y result."
Send a single-sentence update to someone whose decisions shape your opportunities. Not a status report -- a value transmission.

THE TRAP

YOUR SHADOW WORK

Write your reflections in the box below.

Where do I downplay impact and call it humility?
Where am I waiting for someone to "notice"?
What outcome did I deliver recently that deserves recognition, instead of the back seat?

THE STRATEGIC TRUTH

Executives make decisions fast and based on patterns. If they keep seeing your name next to outcomes, you represent success not labor.

That's how access happens.

Write your script

Leaders don't communicate "effort." They talk IMPACT, spoken in three dialects:

EXAMPLE:

"Quick update: I consolidated the process into a single workflow, which cut turnaround time by 30% — cut turnaround time significantly."

CHEAT CODE COMPLETE

You've got the intel.

Now go make your move.

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