Optimize Your Job: Raises, Flexibility, Lateral Moves
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Optimize Your Job: Raises, Flexibility, Lateral Moves
This course is part of Career Effectiveness: Balance, Networking & Collaboration Specialization
Instructor: Evan Kimbrell
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What you'll learn
Quantify your impact and turn your work into a strong value narrative
Build better cases for raises, promotions, flexibility, and expanded scope
Evaluate lateral moves, outside offers, and stay-or-go decisions more strategically
Skills you'll gain
- Storytelling
- Proposal Development
- Data Storytelling
- Performance Appraisal
- Professional Development
- Business Metrics
- Compensation Management
- Compensation Strategy
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Internal Communications
- Value Propositions
- Business Ethics
- Negotiation
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Compensation Analysis
- Performance Review
- Performance Metric
- Business Priorities
- Professional Networking
- Market Opportunities
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April 2026
8 assignments
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There are 4 modules in this course
This course will help you quantify your impact, craft a stronger value narrative, navigate raise and promotion decisions more strategically, negotiate flexibility with confidence, and make smarter lateral or external career moves. Youβll learn how to connect your work to business priorities, build an evidence-based case for growth, redesign parts of your role to better fit your strengths, and approach high-stakes conversations without damaging trust or reputation.
What makes this course unique is that it treats career growth as a practical system rather than a collection of isolated tactics. Instead of focusing only on raises, only on promotions, or only on job searching, it shows how impact tracking, internal sponsorship, job crafting, flexibility, market calibration, and ethical leverage all work together. The approach is grounded, realistic, and designed for people who want to improve their current role before deciding whether to move on. Whether you want more recognition, better scope, greater flexibility, or a clearer sense of your next step, this course gives you a practical playbook for optimizing your job and career choices with more clarity and confidence.
What's included
3 videos9 readings2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 15 minutes
- Tracking & Quantifying Your Impactβ’6 minutes
- Building Your Value Narrativeβ’5 minutes
- Aligning Your Value with Business Prioritiesβ’5 minutes
9 readingsβ’Total 195 minutes
- Example Pack: 15 Proxy Metrics for Hard-to-Measure Rolesβ’15 minutes
- Worksheet: Turn Your Work Into Measurable Impactβ’30 minutes
- Going deeper into tracking and proving your impactβ’30 minutes
- Example Pack: 16 Undersold vs Oversold vs Credible Versionsβ’15 minutes
- Worksheet: One Story, Three Audiencesβ’20 minutes
- Sharpening your value narrative and accomplishment storyβ’30 minutes
- 20 Strategic Phrases for Talking About Your Workβ’10 minutes
- Example Pack: 15 Contributions Reframed Through Different Priority Lensesβ’15 minutes
- Reading the business and aligning your work to what matters mostβ’30 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 90 minutes
- Impact, Value Narrative, and Business Prioritiesβ’60 minutes
- Module 1 Knowledge Checkβ’30 minutes
What's included
3 videos6 readings2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 16 minutes
- Raise Cycles, Promotion Timing & How Decisions Really Happenβ’6 minutes
- Preparing Your Case: Dossiers, Artifacts & Pre-Alignmentβ’5 minutes
- Internal Sponsorship & Socializing Your Caseβ’5 minutes
6 readingsβ’Total 165 minutes
- Checklist: Am I Ready for the Next Cycle?β’20 minutes
- Seeing the system behind raises and promotionsβ’40 minutes
- Worksheet: Raise/Promotion Case Dossier Builderβ’30 minutes
- Strengthening your raise or promotion case with evidence and pre-alignmentβ’30 minutes
- Impact Statements Sponsors Can Repeatβ’15 minutes
- Building sponsorship and making your impact easier to advocate forβ’30 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 90 minutes
- Build a Strong Promotion Case: Timing, Evidence, and Internal Sponsorsβ’60 minutes
- Module 2 Knowledge Checkβ’30 minutes
What's included
3 videos6 readings2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 20 minutes
- Job Crafting & Scope Designβ’6 minutes
- Negotiating Flexibility (Within Your Current Role)β’9 minutes
- Combining Scope & Flexibility Conversationsβ’6 minutes
6 readingsβ’Total 135 minutes
- Examples List: More of X, Less of Y, New Ownershipβ’10 minutes
- Redesigning your role through job crafting and smarter scope choicesβ’35 minutes
- Why Small Flexibility Experiments Work Better Than Big Requestsβ’10 minutes
- Making flexibility requests practical, low-risk, and easier to approveβ’35 minutes
- Worksheet: Scope + Flexibility Proposal Builderβ’10 minutes
- Turning scope and flexibility into sustainable new normsβ’35 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 90 minutes
- Job Crafting & Flexibility: Building a Stronger Role Proposalβ’60 minutes
- Module 3 Knowledge Checkβ’30 minutes
What's included
3 videos6 readings2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 23 minutes
- Strategic Lateral Moves & Career Capitalβ’7 minutes
- Market Calibration & Stay/Go Decisionsβ’8 minutes
- Counteroffers, Exits, and Reputationβ’8 minutes
6 readingsβ’Total 145 minutes
- Worksheet: Lateral Move Decision Scorecardβ’20 minutes
- Thinking sideways on purpose: lateral moves that build career capitalβ’35 minutes
- Weak Signals vs. Strong Signals in Market Calibrationβ’15 minutes
- Calibrating your market value and making smarter stay/go choicesβ’30 minutes
- When a Counteroffer Solves the Problem, and When It Doesnβtβ’10 minutes
- Handling counteroffers and exits without damaging trust or reputationβ’35 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 90 minutes
- Strategic Career Decision Scenario: Stay, Move, or Exitβ’60 minutes
- Module 4 Knowledge Checkβ’30 minutes
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