- Ask your boss thru your Supervisor for any "CCAs" they can nominate you for. Being involved in organising committees for events like family day, DnD, Innovation day, etc will give you a bigger network, and you may have the chance to interact with senior management at such events.

- Also volunteer for small tasks like meeting secretariats, writing speeches, liaison officer for events etc. These help bosses get a better feel of how you think, how you act under pressure.

- Network outside your team and dept. Meet with other colleagues for lunch and get news on the grapevine. Who is leaving (vacancy!), who is a good boss, which Dir is new, what is the Dept focusing on (e.g. aging agency workforce, hence need to reduce manpower on repetitive tasks). This helps you understand what are the growing areas of the SB where new blood, ideas are needed.

- When you go to your Supervisor, DD or Director, with a problem, give them solutions. Have one good solution, with a couple of alternates, and be clear on the pros and cons. They may not proceed with your first solution, or any of them, but it helps them see you are thinking critically. Remember you are the officer who has the best understanding of the ground dynamics, but your bosses have to consider dept-wide, SB-wide, or even ministry-wide implications. Give them a solution that tries to balance both perspectives.

-Review your past PB grades. Like one bro here said, you need a minimum of 2 consecutive C+ to get into the promotion queue. Take a look at your portfolio to see where you can value-add, or add more tasks that make that yearly assessment look better. Dont view the mid-yearly or end-yearly assessment a chore or have your supervisor chase you for it. Have a good store of high points/accomplishments so that your supervisor has plenty of ammunition to propose a good grade for the Director to support.

- Lastly and seriously, if your Director is not giving you the C+s, and not willing to give you tasks to profile yourself better - look for a new Dept.