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CFO Corner Week 39: Your Manager Is Your Advocate - Are You Giving Them Anything to Work With?

Your raise is often decided in a meeting you're not in, and probably well before your review.

This week, Maddie walks through the two moves to make before raise season locks in: updating your brag list so it shows impact instead of a list of tasks, and having a 20-minute conversation with your manager about how raise decisions actually get made. She also shows why the gap between a 3% and a 5% raise is worth far more than one year's difference.

Why "good work speaks for itself" is costing you

How to build a brag list in 30 minutes, month by month

The three questions to ask your manager this…

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