PowerShift: Become Promotion-Ready in 90 Days with Kanchan Chadha

Doing your current job well proves performance. A promotion requires evidence that you can handle the next one.

You may be dependable, experienced and consistently delivering results, yet still find yourself:

• Being overlooked for promotions or high-visibility opportunities

• Struggling to communicate confidently with senior leaders

• Doing valuable work that remains unnoticed

• Overexplaining, staying silent or becoming defensive under pressure

• Finding it difficult to influence stakeholders without formal authority

• Unsure about what is actually missing from your promotion readiness

The gap may not be your capability.

The gap may be how clearly your next-level leadership potential is being demonstrated, communicated and perceived.

Introducing PowerShift

PowerShift is a personalised 90-day leadership and promotion-readiness program for experienced professionals who want to move from being seen as reliable performers to credible next-level leaders.

This is not a generic course filled with leadership theory.

We will identify your specific readiness gaps and work on how you communicate, influence, respond under pressure, make your contribution visible and build a stronger case for progression.

The five shifts we will work on

1. Promotion Readiness

Understand what decision-makers evaluate before promoting someone and identify the gap between performing well in your current role and demonstrating readiness for the next one.

You will learn to:

• Evaluate your current promotion readiness

• Think beyond tenure, effort and performance ratings

• Identify evidence of next-level capability

• Build a credible promotion case

• Prepare for career and appraisal conversations

2. Executive Communication

Your expertise has limited value if senior leaders cannot quickly understand your thinking.

You will learn to:

• Give clear, concise leadership updates

• Move from sharing data to giving recommendations

• Answer senior leaders without rambling or overexplaining

• Communicate risks, decisions and trade-offs

• Disagree assertively without sounding aggressive

3. Influence and Stakeholder Management

At the next level, you are judged not only by what you deliver, but by what you can make happen through others.

You will work on:

• Managing upward without becoming a people pleaser

• Understanding stakeholder priorities and power

• Influencing cross-functional teams

• Building support before critical meetings

• Handling resistance without escalating every issue

4. Strategic Visibility

Your work does not always speak for itself. Someone must translate it into business impact, and that someone is you.

You will learn to:

• Communicate achievements without sounding boastful

• Replace activity language with impact language

• Build a visible and credible leadership reputation

• Ask for stretch assignments and strategic opportunities

• Strengthen your visibility before appraisal discussions

5. Calm Authority

Leadership presence is not tested when everyone agrees with you. It is tested when the room becomes uncomfortable.

You will work on:

• Responding calmly under pressure

• Managing defensiveness during feedback

• Speaking up in senior meetings

• Holding difficult conversations

• Setting boundaries and saying no professionally

• Holding your position respectfully when challenged

What the 90-day program includes

• 8 personalised 1:1 coaching sessions

• 4 focused pre-recorded learning modules

• Promotion Readiness Diagnostic

• Individual development roadmap

• Practical workplace assignments between sessions

• Scripts, frameworks, templates and reflection tools

• Voice-note support and focused WhatsApp nudges

• Review of real workplace situations and conversations

• LinkedIn and professional positioning guidance

• A final progress review and next-step action plan

Every part of the program will be connected to your actual role, workplace challenges and career goals.

This program is for you if:

• You have approximately 10 or more years of professional experience

• You perform well but are not progressing at the pace you expected

• You want to prepare for a promotion or larger leadership role

• You need greater confidence with senior leaders and stakeholders

• You want to communicate with more clarity, authority and maturity

• You are ready to practise and apply the learning at work

This program may not be suitable if:

• You are looking only for résumé writing or interview preparation

• You want a promotion without changing how you currently operate

• You are unwilling to practise between sessions

• You expect coaching to guarantee an organisational promotion

PowerShift cannot guarantee a promotion because the final decision depends on organisational opportunities and decision-makers.

What it will help you do is build stronger evidence, behaviours, communication and visibility for the next level.

About your coach

I’m Kanchan Chadha, a Leadership Development Facilitator and Career Coach with 18+ years of experience across Learning and Development, HR and leadership capability building.

I have:

• Trained 20,000+ professionals

• Facilitated 1,500+ learning interventions

• Worked with managers and leaders across organisations and industries

• Held leadership and L&D roles with organisations including Birlasoft, HCL, Dr Lal PathLabs, Magicbricks and Pearl Academy

• Designed and delivered programs in executive presence, leadership communication, influence, stakeholder management and people leadership

My approach combines structured development with honest feedback, practical workplace application and personalised coaching.

Your experience may have brought you this far.

Reaching the next level will require a visible shift in how you think, communicate, influence and lead.

Enrol in PowerShift and begin building your 90-day promotion-readiness roadmap.