How to Ask for a Pay Rise

 

Written by Jenny Caton

 

Asking for a pay rise is never easy and in tough economic times when companies are cutting costs it can be even more difficult. But if you are feeling undervalued and know that you deserve more money than you currently receive, then it can lead to feelings of resentment.

 

So what is the best way to ask for a pay rise in order to give you the best chance of getting what you want?

 

• Choose your time wisely – don’t collar your boss between meetings, or when they are in a bad mood. It’s best to schedule a meeting with your boss so that you’ll have their undivided attention and treat your request seriously. Alternatively wait until your next performance review when you’ll be able to easily steer the conversation round to your salary.


• Don’t be aggressive or defensive. Start on a positive note either by thanking your boss for their time or by saying how much you enjoy your role.


• Have evidence – asking for a pay rise out of the blue will usually be met with a negative response. But if you can give reasons for asking, such as after successfully delivering an important project or after taking on additional responsibilities, it will go in your favour.


• If you’ve been offered a position with more money at a rival company it can be tempting to use this as ammunition. But be careful, if you threaten to leave, your boss might tell you to go ahead – so only play this card if you are prepared to carry out your threat.

 

 

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How to Ask for a Pay Rise

 

Written by Jenny Caton

 

Asking for a pay rise is never easy and in tough economic times when companies are cutting costs it can be even more difficult. But if you are feeling undervalued and know that you deserve more money than you currently receive, then it can lead to feelings of resentment.

 

So what is the best way to ask for a pay rise in order to give you the best chance of getting what you want?

 

• Choose your time wisely – don’t collar your boss between meetings, or when they are in a bad mood. It’s best to schedule a meeting with your boss so that you’ll have their undivided attention and treat your request seriously. Alternatively wait until your next performance review when you’ll be able to easily steer the conversation round to your salary.


• Don’t be aggressive or defensive. Start on a positive note either by thanking your boss for their time or by saying how much you enjoy your role.


• Have evidence – asking for a pay rise out of the blue will usually be met with a negative response. But if you can give reasons for asking, such as after successfully delivering an important project or after taking on additional responsibilities, it will go in your favour.


• If you’ve been offered a position with more money at a rival company it can be tempting to use this as ammunition. But be careful, if you threaten to leave, your boss might tell you to go ahead – so only play this card if you are prepared to carry out your threat.

 

 

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Rise and Shine: Getting Up For That Morning Workout

There’s no two ways about it: getting up in the morning and forcing yourself to go out and do some exercise is really hard work. No matter how devoted you are to the cause of your wellness and wellbeing, fitness and weight loss is not necessarily your top priority in the bone-chilling wee hours of a winter morning. Throwing off the covers can actually feel quite torturous, especially when you know that what lies in wait is a sweaty Zumba class or a tedious session on the treadmill.

 

It’s really worth pushing through the pain, however, because working out first thing in the morning can boost your metabolism, energy levels and mood for the entire rest of the day. Fortunately, there are some little tricks you can try which should make getting up in the morning a bit easier to bear.

 

First of all, try to start your day with a blast of sunlight – when your eye senses light it causes a chemical reaction in your brain which lets you feel more alert and energised.

 

If you stand next to an open window first thing in morning, or even position your bed so that it faces towards an east-facing window, the natural rays of the sun will help you to wake up in the morning. In the middle of winter, however, you may find that it is still dark when you wake up, and in this case you can invest in a light box, to simulate natural light and make you feel better.

 

Drinking coffee might sound like an obvious solution, but a recent study has also found that just the smell of coffee can help to fight off sleep-deprivation and stress, coaxing you into the mood for a workout. If you have a timer on your coffee pot, you can set it to brew for you when you wake up in the morning.

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What Do Rising Sea Levels Really Mean For The Planet?

Although the most recent U.N climate report significantly increased its projections for the sea level rise for this century, some scientists warn that even those estimates are extremely conservative. The only thing we know for certain is that predicting sea level rise for the future is an incredibly difficult task. When the scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) met to discuss the sea level rise for this report, they found it a far harder task that initially anticipated. Sea level forecasts were arguably the most controversial part of the previous report, issued in 2007, and scientists and the public alike have found the estimate of under 60 centimetres to be incredibly low, which doesn’t even include the possibility of rapid ice flow from Greenland or the Antarctic into the sea. These two ice sheets hold the ability to raise sea levels by an astonishing 65 metres, compared to just 0.4 metres in all of the world’s mountain glaciers. Because such things have been neglected, we can’t determine an accurate projection from the figures released.

However, things today look slightly more certain. In the latest report, the IPCC said they could finally put a number on the ice flow from the poles. The result of the estimate was the belief that the sea level rise would be in the region of 28 to 98 centimetres, with a maximum of more than three feet, by 2100  over 50 per cent higher than the 2007 projections. However, this doesn’t mean that sea level rise problems are now fully understood. In fact, far from it – scientists are still battling big questions surrounding the fate of the ice sheets and this could greatly increase the recent projections by a vast majority. Researchers still don’t know how quickly these predictions will become a reality, and there are many more smaller factors still being contended with.

 

The oceans don’t rise steadily like water being poured into a bathtub; instead there are splashes and movements as it rises. Patterns in the weather, such as with El Nino can shove tens of centimetres of water onto the shores of countries at a time, much like they did in California in 1998. Take the floods in 2010 in Australia as an example. And with the ocean growing, the land also shifts. The ground rises where it was once pressed down by glaciers, and then the river deltas sink as the sediments compact. So what looks like the sea levels rising on first glance may actually be the result of the land falling. Unravelling what the oceans are doing currently is a difficult thing to do, and predicting their behaviour is even harder. Everyone is committed to sea level rise, but no-one knows exactly what that means or when it’s likely to happen. Whichever way we look at this issue, the results of the studies are cause for concern. Scientists are even suggesting that people who live under three feet sea level, they should be concerned for the next 100 years.

 

People are able to adapt to a certain extent but we have a difficulty in the fact that people aren’t planning for the reality. There need to be many changes to the way people live in order to cut their carbon footprint drastically in order to lower the increasing risk of sea levels rising, and other environmental effects of global warming. When people make these changes, researchers can begin to look into the ways we can adapt our lifestyles accordingly.

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Warning: HIV/Aids Infections are on the Rise in Britain

Urgent action is now required as figures from a new sexual health study show that the rates of HIV infection are on the rise.

Wigan health chiefs are calling for urgent action to be taken in their borough in particular, as figures show an alarming rise in the number of people there whose wellness and wellbeing is being negatively affected by the disease.

In 2006, there were just 86 sufferers reported, whereas by 2011 this had rocketed to 189. Due to this alarming figure, there have been calls for health workers to work in closer cooperation to help protecting the public from this growing threat.

The lead commissioner for sexual health at Wigan Council, Eleanor Mansell, said that she was disappointed to see a rise in the cases of HIV in the borough, but was confident that ways would be found to tackle the problem, if health professionals would work in close collaboration to find solutions. For example, there would be more opportunities for people to be tested for HIV in community clinics, and this should help to reduce the number of people who are in the later stages of HiV before they are diagnosed. This will remove unnecessary suffering, help to prevent the spread of the disease (as people often unwittingly spread it before they are diagnosed) and help to increase the health of all patients.

Nearly a quarter of the patients who were diagnosed with HIV last year were aged over 50, and this trend is echoed across the North West of the country, with the over-50s being around one fifth of the cases of HIV diagnosed in the region. This number is expected to triple over the next decade, as HIV treatments improve and sufferers consequently live longer.

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Why Is Diabetes On The Rise In The UK?

The incidences of diabetes are on the rise in the UK and the disease currently affects around three million people. On top of this, a further seven million people are neglecting their wellbeing to the extent that they are at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. The charity Diabetes UK has warned that if even a fraction of these people were to develop the disease, this would place a huge burden on the NHS. As it is, it is believed that around 850,000 people in the UK are actually living with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes. This is a rise of 132,000 when compared to figures from the previous year.

There are two factors which are believed to contribute to these shocking statistics, and that is the fact that the UK’s population is an ageing one, and also the rising rates of obesity amongst the UK population.

Since 1996, the official figures on those whose wellness is compromised by the serious illness have almost doubled. Back in 1996, there were around 1.4 million adults living with diabetes. That has more than doubled to over three million. Of these, around 90% are type 2 diabetes. Based on these figures, experts believe that by the year 2024, over five million people in the UK will have a form of diabetes.

Experts have warned that this type of increase in the number of people suffering the disease could place an immeasurable burden on health services in the UK. They emphasise that much more work is needed to be done on preventing type 2 diabetes before it becomes a health epidemic of this scale.

Leading figures of the charity Diabetes UK have stated the importance of identifying those who are at risk of Type 2 diabetes and helping them to make important lifestyle changes before they fall victim to diabetes.

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Why are Mental Health Issues on the Rise in Seniors?

Last year, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, presented some disturbing findings regarding care for mental health and substance abuse issues for seniors. According to the report, millions of baby boomers are likely to face difficulties getting diagnoses and treatment for these problems, and as the population ages we need to make a major effort to significantly boost the number of health professionals and other service providers able to supply this care.

However, the report also noted that the problem is so great that a few changes here and there aren’t enough to address it, and are called for all who care for seniors, including primary care physicians, nurses, physicians’ assistants, and social workers, to recognise signs and symptoms of geriatric mental health conditions, neglect, and substance misuse and abuse. The report said this was vital to be able to provide at least basic care.

According to the committee behind the report, national attention and resources need to be turned towards building a work force of sufficient size that is trained in geriatric mental health and substance abuse care. Depressive disorders and dementia-related behavioural and psychiatric symptoms are the most prevalent among baby boomers, but rates of accidental and intentional misuse of prescription medications are one the rise. Though the rate of illicit drug use among older individuals is low, studies have indicated that this is set to increase as the baby boomers age.

On a financial level, the report stresses that it actually would cost more to pay insufficient attention to older adults’ mental health conditions, aside from the fact that it would produce poorer health outcomes. If you’re an older individual with untreated depression, for example, you are less likely to properly take medications for diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease and more likely to require repeated costly hospital stays.

As an older adult, you are also more likely to have physical conditions and impairments in thinking and ability to function and this can complicate the detection and treatment of mental health problems and substance misuse or abuse. Therefore, older patients need help to self-manage their conditions, and monitoring to prevent relapses.

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