Two Ideas For Increasing How Much You Are Worth To Your Employer

Ever discuss your career with your friends? There have been many times when I have had conversations with friends about how things are going with their careers and just general information regarding their particular job. One of the things that usually comes up focuses on their salary or pay scale. Everybody wants to earn more money. That is evident. So what exactly are business owners looking for?

I’m probably a good person to answer that because I am a business owner myself. I have been in business for more than a decade. Over the course of that time I have hired and fired a number of employees. I have been able to hold on to some of the better ones and I have seen some good ones leave for various opportunities. Every one of them wanted to earn more money. I was more than willing to give it to them too. It’s just that my idea of how to earn more money and their idea of how to earn more money were two different things.

For starters, when it comes to running a smaller business, each employee has a huge impact on the results of the entire company. If you are running a fifteen employee business and one employee is bringing down two or three other coworkers, that person could be affecting total company productivity by a major percentage.

As a result, I try to look for employees who maintain a good attitude. That is a huge deal to me. If you are the type of person who comes to work in a good mood and greets everyone with a smile that means a lot. It is so easy to choose a crappy attitude. People don’t realize it but that attitude can really spread to the people around them. Before I even consider increasing someone’s pay, I’ve got to see that kind of attitude exist on a regular basis. Of course there will be exceptions, but for the most part you’ve got to be an upbeat person.

One more big factor in my thought process about whether to give someone a salary raise or not is based on what reasons the person appears to be working for me. Obviously everyone is there to earn a paycheck. Yet, some employees will come in at the last possible second every morning or even come in five minutes late on a consistent basis. Those same people will be waiting to get out of there promptly at five o’clock every single day.

Situations like that me that the employee can’t stand being at work one minute longer than they have to be. That is an attitude that doesn’t deserve more commitment on my part or more wages either. I don’t expect my workers to love their work so much that they can’t wait to get there. But, if I can tell that you are somebody who can’t wait to fly out of there at the end of the day, you are never going to become supervisor material and I am certainly not going to want to raise your pay or benefits. On the contrary, I will most likely be keeping my eyes open for your replacement.

You will find that mostof material that Dan publishes online relates in one way or another in helping dedicated employees learn asking for a raise where they work. Dan is a firm believer that anyone who takes the time to make a real effort in the workplace will naturally earn the highest salary they are capable of earning.