How to impress your boss and secure a raise? This is explained by Christian Stein-Kalesky, who has been working in human resources for over 10 years. Adobe Stock/Tristar/Kalesky
Christian Stein-Kalesky has been in management positions for almost 20 years and is currently responsible for 1,200 employees.
In the last ten years he has conducted over 2,000 job interviews and hired around 500 employees.
He told us the essential things you can do to attract the attention of your boss, how to get promoted and how to ask for more pay.
Wrap your boss around your finger, extend your elbows in the team and secretly develop a convincing strategy: If you want to be promoted at work or ask for more salary soon, you should do that not do. This is what human resources manager Christian Stein-Kalesky tells us.
In the last ten years alone, the 43-year-old has conducted around 2,000 job interviews in various management roles – and hired around 500 employees. As Head of People & Culture Europe, he is currently responsible for around 1,200 employees at the Tristar Hotel Group. He previously worked as an executive at Phantasialand, in the luxury hotel industry and as a senior people manager at Apple.
We visited him in his Berlin office on Kudamm and he told us seven things you simply need to know for salary negotiations and promotions.
1. Be authentic – this is more than a cliché
The be-all and end-all in all areas of work is authenticity. What initially sounds like a cliché is simply crucial in negotiations and in the team. Instead of ingratiating yourself to the boss and bending over backwards for him, the focus should be on the department’s goals and personal contributions, Stein-Kalesky advises. “If you work well in a good team, your performance will be rewarded by your manager anyway,” says the 43-year-old. “Then just show authentically and naturally that you can work with your colleagues on an equal footing.”