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The meeting reaches its final slide, and a leader announces that a capable colleague will take on a larger role. Everyone applauds. The person at the centre of the news smiles, even though the scope, pay and effect on her life were never fully discussed. A public celebration has turned an unfinished conversation into an answer. An opportunity can be generous and still require consent. Speak privately before the announcement. Explain what the role carries, what will leave her current workload, which support comes with it and when the change would begin. Give her room to ask practical questions and to decline without being treated as ungrateful or unambitious. Recognition should not remove a person's ability to choose the life around the title. The announcement will mean more when it follows a real agreement rather than creating pressure to perform one. Ambition belongs to the person doing the growing, not only to the organisation imagining where she could go. Ask first. Then celebrate the choice she has actually made.
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