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How do you negotiate salary over email?

HR Digest

The person handling the job offer may balk at the idea of a compensation package adjustment and even send you a message saying that they are eager for you to join, but budgetary constraints do not allow them to offer more for the position you have applied for. As requested, my expected salary is ($ _) excluding benefits and incentives.

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Juggling Business Management and Motherhood: Best Practices

Strategy Driven

Working moms can balance their careers and family responsibilities with a flexible schedule that prioritizes their roles. Here are some tips for creating a flexible schedule: Communicate Let your colleagues and clients know your availability, preferences, and constraints, and ask for their understanding and support.

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Why Compassion Is Key To Succeeding At Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

For myself, this September also marks a special milestone in my writing career – specifically, it marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of my first leadership book, “ Leadership Vertigo ”. And yet, less than 30% of bosses are actually having these conversations.

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The Bias Undermining Your People Analytics

Harvard Business Review

In careers and the workplace, this means that credit or blame for performance is likely to be assigned to an individual more based on his or her perceived character, personality, intentions or efforts rather than on the situation, context, opportunities or constraints within which that individual is working.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

Most of us assume that if we want to change people’s behavior, we need to change their incentives. To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. And they faced big constraints.

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The Best of September 2013

Harvard Business Review

Feature Triple-Strength Leadership Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Managing resource constraints, controlling health care costs, implementing smart-grid technologies — these are challenges that can’t be addressed unless government, business, and NGOs work together.

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How to Make Your One-on-Ones with Employees More Productive

Harvard Business Review

But workday pressures and time constraints often get the better of us. “You need to set expectations around what’s most important and create an incentive to focus,” she says. “You need to set expectations around what’s most important and create an incentive to focus,” she says.