Frame career moves as helping, not taking

After a little bit of time, I would start to be like, 'Hey, you have your planning committee today. Here are the three questions I want you to go in and get answered at that committee. And if they say this, I want you to ask this and this.' And after a little bit of that, I was like, 'It might be easier if I just go, I might be able save you some time and some energy if I just joined you.'

I went to Salar and said, 'Hey, I think I should actually report to Hunter. I think this would work better if we kind of combined the organizations this way.'

I would really like at some point in the future to grow into whatever this goal is. What do you suggest that I work on now so that I'll be ready when the opportunity comes up? The reason I love this template is just a really easy way to start off this conversation. I'm framing it in the future so that it's not threatening. And then it brings them onto your side.