Ask for an Appointment

When you’re asking your boss for a raise you’ve got to establish the importance of this.

The setting is important.

You don’t want to sort of chase after your boss on his or her way to an elevator Friday afternoon on the way to a holiday weekend.

So my boss I need a rate that’s not the time.

It’s too easy for them.

Why what my recommendation is send an email a call or a face to face encounter where you specifically ask for an appointment and just say Mr. Smithers T.J.

I need to schedule a point with you to talk about something important.

If they ask what just say I’d like to talk to you about my future here at the organization.

You don’t want to sound like you’re upset.

You don’t want to sound like there’s a panic but you do want your boss to know this is important.

You want his or her undivided attention.

This is not something that you just sort of casually mentioned in the lunchroom one day.

It’s not something you mentioned is you’re both leaving a meeting and scurrying to the next thing.

So you’ve got to make sure you have your boss’s attention in order to do that.

You need an appointment.

And if your boss says two weeks from Tuesday fine I’d rather have it on the calendar and something specific than just leave things haphazard or talk to someone down the hallway so that’s the first step.

Make an appointment for this meeting to ask for a raise.