A Huge, Often Unused Way Your Manager Can Help With Promotion
Your manager is critical to your promotion. More specifically, if your manager is not supportive of your promotion case, it is near impossible for you to get promoted.
You need to create a plan with your manager as soon as the performance review cycle starts to set expectations on what you need in order to be a good candidate for promotion. It should be modal and detail the following:
What it means to meet expectations
What it means to exceed expectations
What it means to totally crush expectations
Regularly work with your manager to get feedback and understand your progress for this plan