The Specialist-to-Manager Promotion Case File
DolceDrago 341 — a skill for the cycle where being excellent at your job stops helping
Variant of Nº086 — Promotion Case File
What it is
Turns "I already run this team in everything but name" into a case the room can approve. This cycle is lost twice: by arguing from your own output, which only proves you should stay put, and by leaving the organisation to work out who does your work. Builds the other file — people moved, decisions taken for others, conflict handled, work handed away — and the backfill plan that answers the objection nobody says aloud. For senior specialists and leads.
What you receive
the case for a first management role built out of management already done without the title — the machine read that says whether the job exists, a dossier of decisions taken for other people, and a one-pager armoured by a backfill plan
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “how to get promoted from senior engineer to team lead”
- “i already run the team but without the title”
- “my boss says i am too valuable to promote”
- “promotion to manager when i have never managed anyone”
- “asked for a management job and got a pay rise instead”
Record
lineage: variant · parent 086
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
Sale-time bench runs and the fix-or-refund log attach to this record when the payment room opens.
In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.
Join the house — be written to when sales openBack to the collectionLicense
Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.