COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Learn Proven Strategies for Improving Your Listening, Speaking, and Interpersonal Skills in Any Situation (2023 Guide for Beginners)

By Mark Baker

"Communication Skills" is a comprehensive guide to mastering the art of effective communication. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides readers with a step-by-step approach to improving both verbal and nonverbal communication skills. Whether you're looking to improve your l

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Baker
• Release date: Jan 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9783988311139

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Introduction

Do you want to learn how to effectively solve problems and communicate? Do you want to learn how to both speak and listen? Anyone with self-assurance? If you answered yes, this book is for you! You want to create a pleasant working environment as an entrepreneur. This book will teach you how to be a constructive leader, whether you are new to entrepreneurship or an experienced business owner. You can take action to establish your ideal online or offline business with the right information and tools. This comprehensive book contains advice and strategies for turning your idea into reality! First, you'll learn how to ask for a raise, and if you're a leader, you should teach your team how to do the same so they can become more self-sufficient at their jobs and, as a result, your company will be more successful. Following that, you will learn how to deal with difficult team members and how to build team loyalty.

Following that, you'll discover how to add more value and improve your attitude as an intrapreneur. Following that, you'll learn about the most important skills for becoming a good intrapreneur, as well as how to overcome challenges even during a global crisis. Following that, you'll discover when to specialize and/or generalize, as well as how to provide constructive criticism. Following that, you will discover why most business leaders fail and the most common reasons why your team members leave you. Finally, you'll discover how and why you need to create your own vision board to be a successful entrepreneur! Let's start with how to ask for a raise at work if you're ready to transform your life and business!

Chapter 1 : How to Request a Raise

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Do you ever feel nervous and almost panicked about going to your boss and asking for raises because you don't know how?So that's what we're going to talk about. When I reflect on my life, I recall many awkward times. Typically, awkward situations occur when we need to ask someone a question but don't know how to do so properly.

As amusing as it may be, we do have a difficult time asking two embarrassing questions, one of which is how to approach your employer, boss, or CEO for a raise. Try running your own firm, and we have a lot of team members, workers, and agents, and one of the things—well, my W2 employees—is that a few years ago I set them up and we had a meeting. I told you I wanted to chat with you about how to approach me and the company about a raise. It was an unpleasant situation because it's not every day that your boss comes to you and says, Here's how to ask for a raise. I'll tell you what, that was probably one of the finest things we ever did as a company because it taught employees how to come to me for raises.

There are many smart ways to ask for a raise, but there are also many inappropriate ways to ask for one. First and foremost, what should the mentality of someone who is going to ask for a raise be? One, you consider yourself a brand, and you're making the case for your client and why this individual deserves a raise. You have to look at it that way when you're talking to your employer about asking for a raise, and your best friend when asking for a raise is mathematics. Let me explain why math is your best friend when it comes to asking for a raise. If you can come to me and make a case for why you deserve a raise based on specific numbers that you achieved -- for example, Last year you asked me about the company's goal of increasing by 25%, and I increased by 39% and made the company an additional $580,000 out of my department, and I minimized expenses by $270,000, I think I deserve this, it makes sense that you get a raise, and your supervisor may respond, "I won't give you five, butCongratulations, you have received your increase! Your best buddy is math.

The more you can make your case based on arithmetic rather than emotion, the better. It doesn't matter in business if you compare yourself based on I've been here for such a long time and I'm such a good guy. You must recognize that a firm cannot survive unless there is performance. If entrepreneurs were paid, made money, and grew based on being decent people but poor performers, many people would be out of work today, so you must look at yourself as well. If you are in business, you must perform in order to maintain your job and keep expanding and raising your compensation. So math is number one. The second factor is efficiency and value.

Maybe there isn't a way to use math in your department, even if there is in almost every possible way, but if there isn't because you develop software and the software does certain things and the software still goes to retention and efficiency, you can still show speed of getting business to, getting a loan funded, or getting a product to clients.But you must also make a case for the efficiency and value you provide, and they must be measurable.

This is what I intended, and this is what it accomplished. Third, while asking for a raise, it is critical that you examine the business and the firm. If it's a start-up, don't ask for a raise because even the CEO is barely making any money; they're not making any money for the first few years when the company's being built because every dollar that comes in goes back into the business, so remember the timing part of it when a business is going through. If it's 2008 and the mortgage business is struggling and you work in banking, it's a horrible time to ask for a raise. Consider the timing as well as the location of the organization. If the company recently obtained a loan, bonds, or did certain things and you know they must repay this over the next two years, you must understand where the company is at the time those things occur.

Always be respectful when asking for a raise from whoever you're dealing with. Finally, if you use the method I just described and your boss dismisses you despite the fact that you saved the company millions of dollars and can prove it with numbers, don't be upset.Go ahead and start your own business. Because being an entrepreneur is the only way to truly control how much money you make.And if your employer does not follow a system like this where you can just go make a flawless case for a raise and you still don't get it, perhaps it's time to start a business or become an entrepreneur.

You'll have to work harder in the beginning, but on February 1st, 2030, you can get up and say, This year, I want to improve my income by 50%, and you can do so because you own a business. You must grasp the posture on how to ask for a raise, and if you understand how to ask for a raise correctly and go to them in that manner, your employer, employee, or CEO will typically want to work with you; if not, go be an entrepreneur. However, if you own a business and want to