Your manager is a person with limits and goals. Work with them.
Direct answer
To negotiate with your boss, prepare your case with evidence, decide your target and fallback, pick a calm moment, link your request to their goals and listen. If the answer is no, ask what would change it and agree on a follow-up.
Steps
- Define the ask.
- Collect evidence: results, feedback, market data.
- Frame it around shared goals.
- Ask clearly.
- Listen and explore options.
- Agree next steps in writing.
Script
"I have delivered X and Y this year. I would like to discuss a pay increase to reflect that. What would you need to see?"
Where Teyro fits
Teyro's How to Handle Difficult Negotiations course turns this into short lessons you can play in a few minutes a day. It has 50 lessons, and you can start free.
The bottom line
Be prepared, polite and persistent.
