Category: Jobs and professional relationships

  • Doing your fair share in the workplace: How to respond to someone else’s first offer

    At some point or another, by choice or by assignment, most of us will start a work project with someone we don’t really know. Having launched such a project, a perennial question quickly blooms: “Who will do what?” Making sure you do your fair share—no more, no less—is far from easy. But it’s negotiable! For…

  • Should you accept that job? Defining a reservation price

    There comes a time in all of our lives (approximately every three years) when we must decide whether to change jobs. This decision may seem difficult (and it is). But it’s negotiable! Now, negotiating a new job offer requires a whole host of negotiation concepts and skills, including the ones I’ve described in recent posts.…