Impact Accelerator Bootcamp Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards related to a Bootcamp for engineers focusing on career growth, impact, and promotion.

Bootcamp Goal

Setting up systems to amplify your impact and get promoted faster.

Executive Mindset

Understanding how executives evaluate promotions to better position yourself.

Promotion Strategy

Positioning, differentiating, and working backward to create a promotion strategy.

Top Performer Systems

Achieving high performance by establishing systems for outsized impact.

Work Redesign

Redesigning work for impact to drive higher motivation, energy, and job satisfaction.

Business Acumen

Developing business acumen to deliver significant business impact.

High Leverage Opportunities

Identifying high-leverage opportunities to maximize impact.

Stakeholder Partnership

Partnering with leadership and stakeholders to build trust.

Trust as Currency

Using trust as a currency to enable faster progress and innovation.

Signal vs. Noise

Differentiating valuable information from distractions.

Flywheel Effect

The effect where each action makes the next one easier, leading to compounding results.

Deliver stellar results

Results are the only universal currency. They buy you trust, air-cover, and optionality.

Earn Trust

In tech, speed scales with trust. Leaders give bigger scope to the people they don’t have to double-check.

Develop Influence

Influence = direction without authority. It gets you invited to strategy rooms.

Amplify Your Team

The fastest path to senior levels is elevating others while you deliver.

Position for Promotion

Promotions are decided months before the packet—through narrative & evidence.

Narrative Fit

ICs focus on features; execs buy stories that fit the company’s strategic arc.

Activation, not Adoption

Launch metrics can look great while real usage is shallow.

Internal Champions

Org charts show reporting lines, not influence lines.

Ecosystem Timing

Even brilliant features flop if adjacent systems aren’t ready.

Option Value

VPs value work that unlocks future bets (APIs, data exhaust) more than point solutions.

Psychological Safety for Bold Bets

Teams that feel safe surface risks sooner, iterate faster.

Trust-Velocity Loop

Speed + accuracy builds trust; trust grants autonomy; autonomy increases speed.

3-Pillar Trust Equation

Clarity, Reliability, Ownership

Trust–Velocity Loop

Visible, reliable execution grants you trust.

3-Pillar Trust Equation

Clarity, Reliability, Ownership

Clarity

Proactive updates (no surprise slips), Metrics in plain language.

Reliability

Hit >90 % of committed dates, Renegotiate early when realities change.

Ownership

Raise blocking issues before asked, Bring choices, not complaints

Passive Path

Wait for your manager to assign bigger scopeHope they remember you.

Stepping-Up Path

Spot an org-critical gapPropose the fix Become the obvious owner.

Doctrine

Scope is discovered, not gifted. The people who surf to Staff/Principal/Director levels are the ones who proactively claim high-leverage, high-ambiguity problems.

A great gap

Business-critical Under-owned Multi-stakeholder Measurable

Doctrine

Code moves bits; narratives move headcount and roadmaps.

STAR

A framework that includes: Situation, Task, Action, Result.

Document

Write the how/why once.

Template

Extract the repeatable skeleton (README, code stub, checklist).

Automate

Script what humans still click/grep.

Delegate

Hand ownership to the next layer (junior devs, ops).

Teach & Evangelise

Lightning talks, wikis, office hours—feeds adoption → more feedback → better docs.

GROW Framework

Goal, Reality, Options, Will (next step).

Promotions

Promotions stall when the story is assembled at review time; they sail through when the story is lived out loud all year.

Use promo verbs

Use promo verbs (“drove,” “influenced,” “raised bar”) in every update—conditions reviewers’ brains.

The “Back-Cast, then Broadcast” Principle

Start at the finish line, Decode the next-level rubric.