Raising the offer

The raising of the job offer is to be performed cordially but formally and officially and with due tact and diplomacy. Selected professionals deserve reasonable affection and respects and therefore, deserve to be responded to with proper care and concern. But, it must be made amply obvious that the organization is not dependent on them for making its smooth running and desired progress. While raising the offer care should be taken to massage the selected professional’s self-confidence and self-esteem, in order to derive enhanced work-support and commitment to the organization.

We’ve all seen this first-hand in the workplace: A team is assembled to deliver “something” to a client within a certain time frame. The objectives seem clear enough, but inevitably certain team members will get side-tracked and become fixated on details of the project that are of little or no consequence to the ultimate goals. Extra effort is then misguidedly dedicated to these areas to solve a “problem” or reach a “consensus”, when no real problem existed in the first place. As a result, mission-critical areas of the project get shorted on attention, things get missed and the end deliverable suffers. This cycle plays out within inefficient companies on a daily basis.