What is your reputation at work and is it keeping you from being promoted?

Reputations are built from repeated behaviors, actions or characteristics, and can sometimes leave room for interpretation, speculation or extrapolation.  For example, “Erin is so quiet.  She never speaks up in meetings, it’s like she isn’t sure of herself, or what we’re talking about;” “Maya? Isn’t she the X-Product girl?  I have only seen her working […]