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6 Ways to Add Value to Your Organization & Advance Your Career

Eat Your Career

Your company pays you a salary and they expect a return. Take for example an administrative professional whose role it is to purchase office supplies. Or, she could find simple ways to improve her value like… Researching vendors to find more competitive pricing and making informed recommendations to decision-makers.

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Planning the Perfect Holiday Party: Guest Blog

Laughing all the Way to Work

If you're throwing your office party at a restaurant, bar, or other facility that provides alcohol, you can normally work out a set open-bar price. While you're negotiating the per-person fee, consider the average salary of the office employees.

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A True Partnership: Olympia Dukakis and Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

Olympia knew that the price she paid for delegating to me and anyone else, is that she gives up control and needs to expect occasional mistakes. This includes salary but also having the contents of a hotel mini-bar removed and some of the excess furniture too. Don’t change a word. Oh, and I’ll write the Foreword. ” Everything.

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Is it that time of the year already?

Laughing all the Way to Work

When it gets closer to the course date and it doesnt look like they will fill the seats, they offer the course at a cheaper price. I have asked for a raise however, but it was after I considered a move somewhere else and wasnt sure I wanted to go, so gave my employer a chance to match the new salary and they did. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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You’ve Got Their Back. Who’s Got Yours? By Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

We are paying a high price from non-stop work. The price we pay takes many forms, from eating too much, not eating enough, losing sleep, drinking too much, drugging too much, feeling depressed, angry, getting headaches, making mistakes – to name just a few. These amenities make it very easy to never stop working.

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