Bosses promote the person they never have to double-check. That takes months of quietly getting it right.

Trust gets built out of repetition rather than out of impressive moments. A manager promotes the person whose work they have stopped checking, and that only happens after enough weeks of nothing going wrong that checking stopped feeling necessary. It is a dull credential and it is the one that actually moves people.

Take the least glamorous part of your job and make it reliable for a month: the closing checklist, the count, the thing somebody always has to remind you about. Do it the same way every time so it becomes predictable. Let being easy to forget about be the goal.