Rahul Awasthy

I made this jump and it wasn't easy - here's my guidance based on experience. 1. Find a leader who believes in you. Very often people don't tell you this one thing - Promotions are personal in the sense that someone is taking the risk that you will succeed at an unproven level. The assumption is you already have the base-skills as your peers who also qualify for that promotion 2. Take Risk politically in medium/large orgs - Demonstrate that you can lead a project, an idea and market ALL aspects of it. Your product and sales champions are critical in backing your promotion. In short as a PM, I should want YOU as my marketing launch person. As a Sales leader, I rely on YOU to sell better, enable better, message better 3. Jump ship carefully - Sometimes it's the only option, but weigh in and have a honest timeline based discussion with your manager. Do NOT assume your manager thinks your great work means you want people responsibility. Many are happy without it. Good luck and let me know what your experience says