For any worker looking to get a raise, a simple formula that will improve the odds is the Gerry McGuire system.
That comes from American recruiter, business owner, author and HR specialist Severin Sorensen. In his work with local CEOs and executives to improve their businesses, he offers this tool for both employers and employees to increase worker pay.
Simply put, he says, workers seeking a raise should understand that employer also wants the worker to make more money, but they must work collaboratively to pay for it. And the options a worker should entertain include: work more hours, find internal savings, sell more profitably.
In short, any employer is willing to share new revenues or cost reductions with the workers who made them happen. Or, as Tom Cruise so famously said in the movie Gerry McGuire, “Help me help you.”
Any business that has more income has more money to devote to those who helped make it happen.
