Don't squander your honor

“To be fair, counter-offers can provide an opportunity for employees to voice issues or concerns about their jobs. When you are recruited for another job, ask yourself: What are the pros and cons of my current position? If the negatives outweigh the positives, you simply must leave. However, you may decide you genuinely like your position, aside from one or two problems, in which case it's time to have an open, honest conversation with your boss - before you accept the offer.”

This great article appearing recently in The Sydney Morning Herald/Forbes.com touches on so many of the fine points of how to handle that time ‘when you have made the decision to accept employment elsewhere.’ Making a career or company change is one of those traumatic activities in our lives and at times we don’t know how to exactly deal with it. This article covers so many of those little intricacies which one needs to think about so that we make that change in a professional manner – with our reputation intact.

But, if we learn to become better and more confident in our ability to foster a relationship with our direct report, many of the issues we feel when possibly deciding on a career change would never occur.

We feel the most important issue here though is "when making the decision – live by that decision! "

Until next time….