• Does it feel like you have no control over your advancement?
• But are their avenues within your control?
• It depends on how you see yourself and your role.
• Can you see yourself as a business and your superiors as customers?
• What is your market? Your key selling points?
• Who is responsible for selling your services to your customers?
• Who is responsible for ensuring you understand their needs?
• What new customers can you cultivate?
• What new services can you offer them?
• What do your key customers want that you can help them get?
• How can you make them look good?
• What bargaining power do you have? Or can create?
• Can you come up with a business winning innovation?
• Alternatively, if you see yourself as an employee, a pawn at the disposal of others, then you can do little but await their pleasure.
• Merely waiting is demoralizing and confidence destroying.
• Can you devise a proactive plan and take action to bolster your confidence, enabling you to present yourself as a more marketable product.

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See also article: An Engaged Employee's Career.