promo-packetlisted

# Promo packet A promotion packet is read by people who do not know your work, in a stack of others, against a written bar for the target level. It is decided not on how hard you worked but on whether you already operate at that level and left durable impact. Packets fail when they narrate activity, claim team wins as personal, or reach for a level the evidence does not support. ## Method 1. **Read the ladder for the target level first.** Pull the leveling guidelines and write down the specific expectations of the level you claim: scope of ownership, ambiguity handled, blast radius of impact. Build the packet to answer those exact bars, not a generic "did great work" case. 2. **Show you already operate at the next level.** Committees promote people who have been performing at the target level, usually for two or more quarters, not people who might grow into it. Lead with examples that sit clearly in the next level's scope, and be honest when the evidence is current-level work done well. 3. **Lead with impact, quantify it, tie it to the business.** For each major piece of work, state the outcome and its magnitude: revenue moved, latency cut, an incident class eliminated, teams unblocked. "Led the X migration" is activity; "led the X migration, cutting infra cost 22% and unblocking three teams" is impact. 4. **Separate your contribution from the team's.** Name what you personally drove versus what the group delivered, in the artifacts and