The Curve

Above the curve below the curve, where is your office? Where are you? It is that time of year when many of us start the evaluation process. With many colleges having already frozen increases in salary, this may be the year that they serve the best purpose.

This is the time of year when we can ask our bosses and co-workers for the support (financial or political) to meet the goals for the coming year. Have you always been honest with superiors and co-workers during the evaluation process or has there been a cloud of salary fear? If you said yes maybe this is the time to change that. It has been my experience that honesty and frankness can aggravate initially, but if you stay true to that message it can pay dividends in the future.

This economic time with salaries frozen might be a great opportunity to get over the concern about what effect honesty will have on a salary change! It might help the office and yourself move along the curve!

Don't fear the change in salary, love the change in how you do business! This will have the greatest impact on how others view you and your ideas.