by Melissa Hereford | Apr 2, 2020 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
Do any of these sound familiar? “This person interrupted me in a meeting and I snapped at them in front of everyone. I feel like an idiot.” “This person interrupted me in a meeting and I got quiet. I let them take over the meeting. I feel like I failed.” “I was...
by Melissa Hereford | Feb 21, 2020 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
I recently got an email from my friend and colleague, Brodie Welch. She’s a Holistic Self-Care Strategist and Licensed Acupuncturist with a fantastic podcast, A Healthy Curiosity. A while back, Brodie and I had a lively discussion on the podcast about the ways our...
by Melissa Hereford | Feb 12, 2020 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
I got my first corporate job when I in my last year in college. I was working part time in the theater making $10/hour when a friend of mine told me about this sweet gig that she had working as a temp for a huge corporation called American President Lines paying...
by Melissa Hereford | Jan 23, 2020 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
Did you see the Lean in 2019 Women in the Workplace Study? For the past 5 years, Lean In and McKinsey have partnered to study what is actually happening in the workplace for women. In 2019, they identified the biggest obstacle for women today is that first promotion...
by Melissa Hereford | Jan 15, 2020 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
It’s human nature to assume the worst. And doing so has negative affects across all parts of your life. Imagine the last time you screwed up your courage to ask for what you want, be it a raise or an extra resource on your team to help you finish a project, and you...
by Melissa Hereford | Jan 9, 2020 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
Almost every time I tell people, “I help you negotiate to get paid what you deserve!” the response is, “I HATE TO NEGOTIATE!” It’s pretty universal. Can you guess the #1 thing people hate about it? The fear of being told no, the fear of rejection and the fear of...
by Melissa Hereford | Jan 7, 2020 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
I’m going to make the joke…how’s your 2020 vision?! For 2020?! I have a teenager, so I get all the memes and this one has been on the top for weeks now. Not sure what I’m talking about? Click HERE to see some of them. Have one to share? Click HERE to go to our...
by Melissa Hereford | Dec 29, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
For many of us, this time of year is a blur with end of year work commitments, quarterly goals and shopping. We’re busy. Finding a quiet moment to look back on the year feels like just another chore. And 2019 was exhausting. The endless bad news cycle makes us just...
by Melissa Hereford | Dec 11, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
60% of us admit that we set New Years Resolutions, but less than 25% of us actually follow through with them and less than 8% actually achieve them. Pretty grim, right? The worst part, though, are the ridiculous resolutions we tend to set: lose weight! Get organized!...
by Melissa Hereford | Oct 23, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
Monday night I spoke to a group of women at a live event in San Francisco. When I asked, “How many of you have negotiated your salary?” about 90% raised their hands. That’s significant. The national average varies, depending on the survey source, but the averages run...
