So you think that you should be promoted. You are irritated also that why your promotion is getting delayed. You are working hard and doing your work satisfactorily. Why should you not get promoted? You want to ask your boss, but do not know how to ask? Can you we find out if you deserve to be promoted? If you are sure that you deserve promotion, you can approach your boss with surety and put forward your case. Let us quiz your promotion. Quiz your working style - are you working very satisfactorily in your present responsibility? Have you improved the efficiency? Are your colleagues happy with you? Is your immediate superior happy with your performance? Have you learnt all that any body could in your present job? Please quiz yourself about these factors. Quiz your ability- what is your ability in different specializations that your organization may demand. You think that you deserve a promotion, but what about your ability for that responsibility? You are working well with the present job. Will you be able to do justice to the new responsibility or you were only equipped to do the present job? A new responsibility demands new qualities. Do you have them? Or you will make a mess of that job? Unless you are yourself sure about your ability to handle the new posting, please do not approach your superiors for getting promotion. Once you are sure that you can handle the new responsibility well, go ahead. Sometimes, we invite trouble by getting promoted. Please avoid that.