The Turn
Raising the stakes
Your manager agrees you are ready but says the timing is not right. The phrase "not yet" lands like a door closing, and you have to decide whether to wait or push.
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The Promotion Case
→You have been doing the work of the next level. Build and present the case for formal recognition.
Part of the quest
Performance Reviews
→Whether giving or receiving, performance reviews are high-stakes conversations that shape careers. Learn to navigate them with honesty, strategy, and emotional intelligence. You'll navigate four escalating scenarios — from the self-assessment to the development plan — practicing the decisions that matter most when the pressure is real and the stakes are personal. This isn't theory. It's practice for the moments that define how this chapter of your life unfolds.
What you'll learn from The Turn
This scenario focuses on Raising the stakes — a critical skill inside the broader career domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Promotion Case, a full interactive story inside the Performance Reviews quest.
Skills you'll build in Performance Reviews
More scenarios in this quest
You deserve this promotion and you know it. The problem is that knowing it and proving it require completely different skills — and you have only practiced one.
You build your case with data, testimonials, and specific examples. It feels transactional until you realize that nobody gets promoted on vibes — visibility is the price of advancement.
You make your case clearly, handle the objections without desperation, and let the decision sit with them. Win or lose, you learn that advocating for yourself is not arrogance — it is responsibility.
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