The Full PGQ: Find out why you keep getting passed over

A 240-point promotion assessment and companion guide for early-career hardware and manufacturing engineers.

You fix what breaks. People come to you first. At review time, someone else gets the role.

Your manager isn't ignoring your work. They can't argue for what they can't see.

Promotions aren't decided on effort. They're decided on evidence, in twelve areas managers weigh when they choose who to invest in. I've sat in those meetings. Most engineers have never seen the list.

I started as a mechanic at Pep Boys. At Schiff, I asked my manager exactly what it would take to move up, and within four years I'd moved up two levels. An engineer who started years before me was still at level one when I left. The difference wasn't skill. It was evidence, and asking for it.

The Full PGQ is that list, turned into a score. In twenty minutes, on your phone, you'll know which two areas are holding you back and what to do about each one this week.

WHAT YOU GET

- The PGQ Assessment: 240 statements across 12 elements, built for your phone. Tap what's true of you today, one element at a time. Your progress saves as you go. You get a score out of 240, a career stage, and your two lowest elements.

- The Companion Guide: 37 pages. Each element gets what it looks like on a factory floor, a story from my own career where it decided something, one exercise to do at work this week, and the sign it's working.

- Your Empowerment Blueprint: the one-page plan you bring to your next one-on-one.

- The scripts: the question that gets your manager to tell you what they actually need to see, and the half-page memo that does the hardest part of the promotion case for them.

WHO IT'S FOR

Engineers one to five years in, in EV, battery, robotics, automation or advanced manufacturing, who are good at the job and can't work out why that isn't enough.

WHO IT'S NOT FOR

Anyone looking for a mindset course. Every exercise in here is something you do at work, this week, without asking permission.

WHAT WAITING COSTS

If your company does reviews once a year, your promotion case gets built from whatever evidence your manager has going into that meeting. Not what you did. What they can say you did. Wait, and you get the same review as last year.

Take the assessment. Find your lowest two. Do those two exercises before your next one-on-one.

By Leora Homel, ex-Tesla, now Engineering Manager, Battery R&D at Lucid.

All sales are final. It's an instant download, and once you've seen what your manager needs to put your name forward, you can't unsee it. If a file won't open or something's missing, email me and I'll fix it.