A former colleague of mine once called it "grandstanding", meaning self-promotion at work by letting the important, higher up people know of your achievements and successes.

At work, every Friday, we have a virtual social "happy hour", and our CEO and CMO join. Typically, in past company meetings, every dept head gives kudos to their team members who have shined that month, or who deserve a round of applause and shout-out for stellar team contributions.

In these virtual social hours, this has continued from most of the department heads, with the exception of my own boss and our team manager, who remain silent and closed lipped through every single social hour to date.

So, in other words -- they have given not one single shout-out to a team member's achievements that week, or a call-out regarding a nice compliment from a client that a team member may have received -- nothing from our two department leads. Not a single peep.

On top of this, my boss has been undermining my success level at work. He does not want to see me rise in position, he views me as a threat to his own job, and therefore, he downplays and neglects to mention any my successes to our CEO, the one who matters.

So yesterday, I felt compelled in our social hour to share a client success story of mine with the company and to the CEO and CMO. In my speech, I also was sure to thank all those involved in pushing through a big project for this client, a project that enabled my client to truly see success with my work. So I thanked my boss, my CEO, and other team members involved.

I do not know if I was "grandstanding" OR if I was simply sharing my excitement over the success and a very positive client call I had this week.

As a female, working in an all-male dept, I do have to fend for myself. And with my boss, who won't share my successes openly with the CEO, I have to look out for myself and stand up for myself.

I don't know if I was "grandstanding" or whether I was simply sharing my excitement over the success?

I really hope that it came across as excitement vs. self promotion.

And now I am worried that I may have sounded like I was grandstanding. To me in a way, grandstanding sounds a bit obnoxious? Like "look at me! Look at what I achieved!" and "Aren't I SO awesome??"

I truly hope that I did not come across that way.

I did say, "It's really exciting, good stuff is happening, and I just wanted to share it".