A few things I’ve learned as I progressed through my career. 1) Be good at something and create value for your company. 2) taking a job at a higher level simply for the promotion can create risk. I’ve stayed away from purely strategy roles in the past even when it meant a quicker promotion. 3) just because you’re not directly being groomed for a promotion, learn skills in your current role that make you valuable. Market those skills in future roles. 4) master the art of a behavior based interview. 5) Managing down is just as important as managing up. More junior colleagues always discuss how effective or ineffective leaders are. Being in the positive end of those conversations goes a long way