Welcome to this week's episode of the Modern Mentor Podcast.

I'm your host, Rachel Cook.

Does the idea of having to self-promote leave you feeling like you need a shower?

Sometimes it seems showy and braggy and icky.

The thought of having to do it may make your skin crawl.

And yet self-promotion is essential.

The key to promoting yourself is striking the balance between humility and hubris.

You need to find ways to demonstrate confidence in the service of creating opportunities

without seeming self-congratulatory or off-putting.

Doing great work, delivering important projects, delighting customers and clients, contributing innovative ideas is crucial if we aspire

to new challenges and opportunities at work. But these successes only serve us if the leaders

and decision makers around us have a clear

understanding of what we've achieved and how we've impacted the business.

If you're looking to get ahead at work, doing great work is only half the battle.

The other half is shining the light on your achievements, and this we accomplish through

self-promotion.

Getting self-promotion wrong can have real consequences. Poorly orchestrated self-promotion can hinder your ability to grow.

It limits people's willingness to follow your leadership, to choose to collaborate with you,

and to support your candidacy for roles you aspire to.

There are many strategies you can use to effectively and stealthily promote yourself,

your achievements, your knowledge, your capabilities without being off-putting.

Here are my five favorite ways to self-promote without making colleagues and superiors roll their

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