{"id":178,"date":"2006-07-20T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T14:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=178"},"modified":"2006-07-20T09:06:50","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T14:06:50","slug":"dealing-with-counteroffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/dealing-with-counteroffers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Counteroffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never seen counteroffers get rectified. <a href=\"http:\/\/salesandmarketing.com\/smm\/magazine\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002728882&#038;imw=Y\" target=\"_blank\">Countering Counteroffers<\/a> sheds light on this difficult topic.<\/p>\n<p>Once a salesperson, or any employee, receives an offer from another company, a level of trust (or commitment) has been compromised. This salesperson obviously had an in-depth discussion about another opportunity and pursued it to the offer level. Now the manager is left to question the salesperson&#8217;s commitment to success at the current company.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the takeaway quote from the article (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Its poll found that 75 percent of employees who accepted a counteroffer voluntarily <em>left their employer within six months<\/em> because of promises not kept. Further, the majority of the ones who didn&#8217;t leave were laid off or fired <em>within a year<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never seen counteroffers get rectified. Countering Counteroffers sheds light on this difficult topic. Once a salesperson, or any employee, receives an offer from another company, a level of trust (or commitment) has been compromised. This salesperson obviously had an in-depth discussion about another opportunity and pursued it to the offer level. Now the manager is left to question the salesperson&#8217;s commitment to success at the current company. Here is the takeaway quote from the article (emphasis mine): Its poll found that 75 percent of employees who accepted a counteroffer voluntarily left their employer within six months because of promises not kept. Further, the majority of the ones who didn&#8217;t&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/dealing-with-counteroffers\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-2S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->