Two Ways To Increase Your Value For Your Company

Ever discuss your career with your buddies? There have been many times when I have had conversations with people about how things are going with their careers and just general information about their particular job. One of the things that usually comes up focuses on their paycheck or pay scale. Everybody wants to get paid more money. Who doesn’t?. So what exactly are bosses looking for?

In all honesty, I’m 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 good ones and I have seen some great ones leave for various reasons. Every one of them wanted to work for more money. I was more than willing to give it to them too. It’s just that my perception of how to earn more money and their idea of how to earn more money were two different things.

To begin with, when it comes to running a small company, each employee has a huge impact on the success of the entire company. If you are running a ten employee operation and one employee is dragging down two or three other coworkers, that person could be affecting total business productivity by a major percentage.

Consequently, I tend to look for employees who maintain a positive attitude. That is a big deal to me. If you are the kind of person who arrives at work in a good mood and greets everyone with a smile it makes a big difference. It is so easy to cop a crappy attitude. People don’t think about it but that attitude is really infectious with the people around them. Before I even consider increasing someone’s salary, I’ve got to see that kind of attitude present on a daily basis. Of course there will be exceptions, but for the most part you’ve got to be an upbeat individual.

Another deciding 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 wage. Yet, some people will come in at the last second every morning or even come in five minutes late on a regular basis. Those same people will be ready to get out of there promptly at five o’clock every single workday.

That tells me that the person 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 compensation either. I don’t expect my employees 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 rush out of there at the end of the day, you are never going to become supervisor quality and I am certainly not going to voluntarily raise your pay or benefits. On the contrary, I will probably be keeping my eyes open for a possible replacement.

You will see that all of material that Dan publishes online relates in one way or another in helping individuals learn about getting a raise at work. Dan is a firm believer that anyone who takes the time to make a real effort at their job will naturally earn the highest salary they are capable of earning.