influence

  • Get that pay-raise!
    Sometimes I have a coaching client and they tell me they want a pay-raise but it will never happen. “How do you know?” I say. “Well I’ve already asked, I got a flat ‘no’! There’s no question about it.” So I sit them down and we think it through a...
  • The Main Reason We Don’t Get What We Ask For
    So we ask for our pay-rise and we give many very good reasons why we deserve it and nine times out of ten they say ‘No’. And this is true for all types of negotiations. We ask for that discount, they say no; we ask for more to be thrown...