How do I ask what promotion requires in English without sounding pushy?

Ask about the requirement rather than the reward: What would I need to show by the next cycle to be considered for the next level?

Follow with one question at a time: Which results would count as evidence? and When is the decision made? Write the answers down and read them back in one sentence, so the meeting ends with a shared record instead of an impression.

Raise it in the meeting where objectives are set rather than at the end of an unrelated conversation, and book fifteen minutes on the calendar if there is no such meeting. Keep it away from salary in the same week, because mixing the two makes a question about requirements sound like a negotiation. Send a short follow-up note listing what you heard. If the answer is not yet, ask which single change would decide it: that turns a no into a dated next step.

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