Always Hire Top Talent, Even If it Costs You More

I know a potential employee that was recently not considered for a position because the prospective employer would not negotiate his base salary. Employer’s response was, “Money is an issue.” The base salary offered was $100,000 a year. The difference in the base salary they were negotiating over was ten to twenty thousand dollars a year. However, the company was stuck on a certain amount and would not budge. Here are some questions the company should be asking themselves.

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Dealing with Difficult Employees

Readers, I would be interested to know how all of you deal with difficult employees. I am sure that, at one time or another, you have asked yourself, “Why do some of my people have to be so difficult?” I don’t know how you recruit your employees, but I know that I do not go out of my way to hire troublemakers or cynics. So if I have hired someone who is proving to be a difficult employee, the first step might be to understand what has happened in their view to cause this behavior.

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