‘Can I have more money?' is one way to start the conversation, although not a very elegant one. Perhaps a more structured conversation would work better?

In my experience, employers are often open to giving their staff more money or a promotion, but not without good reason. For example, asking for a salary raise for doing the same work probably won’t yield you much success, however, offering to help the organisation 1. Solve a significant problem or 2. Make more money, will provide you with much more leverage. Also, keep in mind that the more you necessary you are to the business, the more inclined they will be to keep you happy at work compared to if you can be replaced easily by someone else who has similar skills.

CAREER, BUSINESSRonan Kennedy26 June 2017Money, Salary, Strategies, career goals

16 Tips on Negotiating Your Salary: Everything You Need to Know

Know exactly what outcome you want from the meeting. Is it more money, share options, additional holidays, a better schedule, less workload, interesting projects and or benefits-in-kind?
Find out about them and what their needs/wants are in advance. What are their pain points and what are the key problems in the company? Can you help solve them?
Make them look good. How can you make them or organisation look as good as possible? Make them into an ally, not an adversary.
Start out with a high anchor.

CAREERRonan Kennedy10 April 2017Negotiation, Money, Salary

Favourite quotes about money

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. – Will Rogers

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. – Alexander Dumas

Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty. – Leo Rosten

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness. - Daniel Kahneman

BUSINESS, LIFERonan Kennedy22 February 2017Money, Salary

Progress means satisfaction

Occasionally a client will come to me who doesn’t experience enough professional growth in their career. There are a couple of possible solutions for this depending on the situation.

CAREER, BUSINESSRonan Kennedy2 January 2017Growth, Money, Learning, Progress

Becoming Financially Responsible

Essential lessons for financial stability
Financial Lessons from Experts: Book Summaries
Financial Stability: Everything you need to know (almost)
The best philosophies for financial stability

NB *I am not qualified, nor am I authorised to give financial advice.*

Almost everyone is concerned with money at some stage of their career. However, there’s no point working harder, taking on more responsibility and earning more if you don’t actually feel the benefit of it at any stage. By the way, I’m not merely talking about getting richer, I’m talking about increasing your net worth and sustaining it into the future. Before I go any further, I have to mention that of course not everyone wants to be wealthy, which is fine, but everyone wants to be financially stable.

CAREER, LIFERonan Kennedy1 August 2016Money, finance, Linchpin, Certainty

Linchpin and Becoming Indispensable

CAREERRonan Kennedy12 May 2016Linchpin, Money, executive coaching, Engagement

Getting paid to do work you love

Disclaimer: This isn’t a business or marketing blog post. This is a coaching strategy blog post.

I’m really excited about writing this post because it’s always been a burning question for many people who come to me:

Question: "I know what I want to do...but can I get paid for it?!”

Answer: “I don’t know if you can get paid - but I do know that others are getting paid to do what you love doing. I also know that if you don’t try, you definitely won’t succeed."

CAREERRonan Kennedy4 June 2015Money, getting paid, Employees, business, self-employed, Work

Alarming news for Ireland’s recovering economy

Did you know that a mere 16% of employees in Ireland are actively engaged in their work? Gallup, a performance management company who published the report on the State of the Global Workplace found that 64% of employees in Ireland are not engaged in their work and the remaining 20% are actively disengaged.

CAREER, LIFERonan Kennedy21 May 2015Career Coach, Engagement, Education, Happiness, Money

3 Things that destroy your goals

Often when we need to excuse ourselves for not having done something, we say things like “I don’t have the time/money/energy”. Most of us have said it at some stage and we know that as soon as we say it, we have a perfect reason for not doing anything differently or changing our behaviours in any shape or form. Why would we? After all, we really believe this to be true. This is also a frequent complaint of people who feel that they don’t have what they want or the lifestyle that they were hoping for.

LIFERonan Kennedy9 April 2015Time, Money, Energy, Career, Goal-Setting

9 Tips to Find a Job You Love

It’s an difficult task eh? I know! I spent about 10 years looking for a job that I really wanted to do. There can be too many options and so many possible solutions. However, there are strategies mentioned below that I used and that will really help you, as long as you are prepared to do the work also!

I don’t pretend that these are always easy things to do, but I will promise that they are effective. The easy thing to say is that 'not everyone finds a job they like!' or 'get a job, any job!'. You’re reading this because you don’t want to get ‘any job’, you want a job that you love. And maybe you don’t know where to start.

CAREER, LIFERonan Kennedy20 March 2015Career, Career Coach, Career Change, Work, Money, Resources, interviews

4 Steps to Understanding Real Success

It seems like an easy question to answer but how long have you given to really think about success and define it for yourself? If you're going to achieve success, you have to be extremely clear what that will look like for you personally. Otherwise, when you think you are there, you may still be unhappy because it’s not all you hoped it would be. Will working 90 hours per week for your own company and making €100k per year be success for you? Maybe, maybe not.

LIFE, CAREERRonan Kennedy20 February 2015Career Change, Career Coach, Success, Money, Company

Do you really want to be rich?

Someone might say that they want to be rich or to be a millionaire and I’d like to challenge that in this post. Maybe they have already started and they are on their way. But when someone says it and they seem to do nothing about it, I wonder whether they want it so much. Are they working at a job where that’s possible? Or are they developing the skills and the abilities to make that a possibility in the future? If so, great! If not, why not? Maybe we don’t really want it so much…

CAREER, LIFE, RELATIONSHIPRonan Kennedy3 October 2014Money, Focus, Relationships, Happiness, Career Coach, Statistics

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