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Executive Compensation Negotiation: Are you doing it correctly?

Compensation: One of the largest reasons for entering into negotiations with a potential new employer is an advance in one’s own financial situation. With that in mind, one of the largest things on a person’s mind going in is quite simply how much money they are being offered. In general, one of the first things you should do before an interval is to figure out what you are worth, and how much the company should be paying for you.

One of the other major factors to consider is the potential for future advancement. If the company offering you a job is a lower wage but has far more opportunities for advancing your career, it may be advantageous to take them up on the offer. A good example would be someone moving from a much larger company to a startup that has the potential to expand rapidly if successful. In this case, it pays to be one of the first people with access to the company, for those lucrative stock options.

Happiness is also a major factor that people tend to forget about in their pursuit of gainful employment. Are you happy? What might make you happier? A new job does not guarantee happiness. Many people who make a decent wage would happily take a lower income job to be happier if they could do so without compromising their current situation. This is one of the factors that are hard to get a solid grasp on and takes quite a bit of soul searching.

It pays to be skeptical. Do your research on a company before you even consider stepping into their office. One of the most important things to have in an interview is leverage and could be the difference between taking just any job and taking the right job for you. Odds are there are many people who would just take any job that might fall into their lap, instead of carefully selecting their options through a careful vetting process. This concerns the 3 other steps, as compensation, the ability for advancement, and happiness all come from the proper selection and deliberation when choosing a company to work for.

Executive compensation doesn’t mean just the money that you are being paid but takes into consideration many different factors that aren’t always obvious to everyone. Negotiating for proper compensation is a tug of war that takes research, acuity, proper evaluation skills, and most of all, patience, to win.

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Ariel Tavor

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Ariel Tavor is the Founder and Principal Managing Director of Lions Financial. His agenda for Lions Financial is to provide his clients a service that maintains the highest professional value. Specializing in the Business-to-Business market has allowed proficient expertise in providing ongoing consulting services in the focus areas of business advisory, capital markets, and risk management. Ariel works with CEO’s, Capital Investment funds, and Boards of Directors where he advises his clients in matters of Executive compensation, Business Plan Design, Mergers & Acquisitions, Due Diligence, and Asset Financing.

Ariel has 10 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has worked in insurance and investment companies to analyze client’s financial and make suggestions on allocations based on defined objectives as well as maintaining long term relationships. Ariel’s comprehensive experience has allowed him to work closely with CEOs of companies and their executive teams from diverse industries such as trucking, hospitality, commercial real estate, Insurance, manufacturing, and technology. He has helped lead companies through the challenging decisions around – Buy-Sell Agreements, Deferred Compensation, Employee Group Benefits, Succession Planning, Mergers and Acquisitions, Valuations, and Business Sales.

Ariel currently oversees their family office investment group and sits on the Board of Directors of several companies and real estate developments. Their Investment group controls a portfolio of companies in multiple industries. They collaboratively have holdings in companies specialized in – Automotive Distribution- Real Estate Asset Management- Corporate Travel- Ink Mailing Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Financial Services, Management Consulting, Enterprise Technology, and Food Concepts. In recent years there has been a transition into fund allocation towards limited partnership investments in Venture Capital, Private Equity, and REITS within individual underwriting opportunities.

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Ariel Tavor is the founder and principal managing director of Lions Assurance Financial. His agenda for Lions Assurance Financial is to provide his clients a service that maintains the highest professional value. Specializing in the business-to-business market has allowed proficient expertise in providing ongoing consulting services in the focus areas of business advisory, capital markets, and risk management.

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Lions Assurance Financial is a highly successful, independent business consulting and wealth management advisory firm that focuses on three key areas of the financial industry: business advisory, capital markets, and risk management. The experienced team at Lions Assurance Financial focuses on serving the business and wealth management needs of privately owned business generating 3-50 million in revenue including independent business owners, family owned businesses, and business partners. Lions Assurance Financial works with capital providers including investment banks, private equity firms, venture capital firms, capital advisory firms, accredited investor platforms, commercial banks, and speciality finance firms.​

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An effective risk management consultant will help individuals and organizations evaluate their risks and develop a plan to counter their losses. Risk management is a complex process, and there is no one-size-fits-all process that all consultants can use. However, there are certain conventional methods that a consultant will use to help you protect your organization from risk. A risk management consultant should be capable of identifying the unique risk that your business is exposed to and carefully evaluating the scenarios. One of the most critical steps in the risk management step is to discover and list all the expected and unexpected risks. There are various advisory firms that can help you mitigate risk and take care of your business’s financial aspect, but one firm that stands out from the rest is Lions Financial. The company is an independent financial services & business advisory firm based in New York. In conversation with Ariel Tavor, Managing Director of Lions Financial. Lions Assurance Financial is a highly successful, independent business consulting and wealth management advisory firm that focuses on three key areas of the financial industry: business advisory, capital markets, and risk management. The experienced team at Lions Assurance Financial focuses on serving the business and wealth management needs of privately owned business generating 3-50 million in revenue including independent business owners, family-owned businesses and business partners. Lions Assurance Financial works with capital providers including investment banks, private equity firms, venture capital firms, capital advisory firms, accredited investor platforms, commercial banks, and specialty finance firms.