The Skip-Level Digest

Once a month, send your skip-level manager a three-line email: what shipped, what's next, what blocker you'd love their thinking on. Three lines. No attachment. Five minutes to write, two minutes to read — which is why skip-levels actually open it.

After six months of monthly digests, your skip-level knows your name and your work without a formal meeting. That single outcome matters more at promotion time than most visible work you ship only inside your team.