Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2021

Editor's Note: In the early years of your Compensation career? Margaret O'Hanlon has some Classic tips for making career headway in the New Year. If you find yourself in the early part of your career as this year begins, here are a few suggestions that can help you, I bet. What can you learn there? Why is it a priority?

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 17, 2019

Or how about building an online resource that helped them understand the pros and cons of giving everyone the same bonus, and showed them simulations for different payout scenarios? Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 13, 2020

There are opportunities to move up in almost every setting, whether or not the company has a formal career development strategy. It also didn't mean that I was always happy with the career opportunities, but I was always thrilled with what I was learning. Total Rewards is a term we all feel comfortable using.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 17, 2020

As of today, travel to China and mainland Europe has been cut off. you may think. And what does that have to do with comp? For that matter, what does the coronavirus have to do with comp? The fact is, the virus' emergence gives us a case study that aligns in a perfect way with pay-for-performance communication. How did this happen?

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2018

Yes, survey results do have a shelf life, but you conducted that survey in part to build your relationship with employees. It's time to cement your project plans for the coming year, so I thought I'd pass along some items to consider before you submit for approval. But first, I want to share a thought I heard recently.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 19, 2019

These italics are mine, chosen to highlight how innovative and focused manager training design could be if it honed in on those skills.). Not because it says anything really new, but because it does a great job on focus and insight, attributes we can all use when it comes to performance management. Procedural fairness is defined as, ". .

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 30, 2019

You won't have to pretend that all managers and employees need the same information and training (even though you know that it is not accurate). Online resources and personal coaching are additional, essential methodologies that can be mixed and matched with the training modules to deliver personalized communication strategies for managers.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

"Employee pay has become a trending topic in media and online." Have a look at what the outside world says about our work -- at a minimum, you're bound to learn some things about Glassdoor that will come in handy: " Where Did Your Pay Raise Go? That was the first sentence in the April 15, 2014 Compensation Cafe article.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2018

I live in technology gulch so you'd think these issues were long dealt with here, but when we asked the members of the local compensation association for their hot topics, software topics were in the top five -- software selection and optimizing software metrics. HR often stays stuck in the, "If we build it, they will come" mentality.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 14, 2018

If you're an HR office of one, busily juggling everything from beneficiary forms to incentive awards, it's hard to believe that you share any pressures with other HR managers. If you can learn from what others have done who were in your shoes, your program design decisions could be favorably influenced. This is the first in a series.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

At the same time, mid-career hires are tricky. Let's face it, the job switch is a life event for most of your candidates, involving substantial change and readjustment as well as career promise. You can howl that they have you over a barrel, or you can get your mind around how unusually short the learning curve will be.

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Workable

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

At their core, employee incentive programs are designed to recognize and reward employees’ contributions, thereby fostering a culture of appreciation, motivation, and loyalty. What are employee incentives? These incentives can be broadly categorized into two types: monetary and non-monetary.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 10, 2017

Size of endowment and development responsibilities would have also helped -- especially the trends during her tenure. On July 6, 2017, the Lansing State Journal reported this information about Michigan State University's President, Lou Anna Simon. Fiscal year 2106 total compensation was $860,198. There's no way to tell.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

So if the position that you are sourcing prioritizes any or all of these, an investment in an elite university hire should pay off. So if the position that you are sourcing prioritizes any or all of these, an investment in an elite university hire should pay off. Does your company have a reliable career development infrastructure?

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 30, 2021

The outcomes of the design process can make compensation administration, career development and workforce planning so much more effective. Those levels, in turn, are used for talking about career stages within a job function. For others, the next step is to understand and organize career paths. Job families. Job families.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Have we tried to distill what we have learned so we can use it to help us in the future? What can we learn from Toyota? I was linking my way through some of the recent posting on Harvard Business Review’s Blog Network , wondering if there were any references there that could help me tell my story today.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 28, 2020

You can use employee data and analytics to learn how to talk in a more relevant and engaging way with your employees. Many clients are surprised to learn that you "take things apart to put them back together again" when you design compensation communications. In other words, you'd customize your communications to each audience.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 14, 2017

Somehow it felt like time to hit the reset button, so I went looking for inspiration. I came up with two new WorldatWork videos (embedded below). They helped me clear away some cobwebs. I thought I'd point them out to you in case you're in a reset mode, too. Think back. Then pass it around and talk it over with your colleagues.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 8, 2018

Dig in, you'll learn fast: 2018 tax withholding calculator The IRS provides a tool that will help your employees avoid nasty surprises at the next tax filing. Learn how and where to find it to help employees determine whether current withholding choices are the best for them under the new law. and globally.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 17, 2021

A job architecture's goal is organization-wide alignment of all jobs in a company into a structure which may be used to address: workforce planning, job levels, job titling, career movement and pay. . The best way is to work through the design process--and I hope all of us will have this opportunity at least once in our careers.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 25, 2018

Another important detail is that all employees are eligible for incentives. Editor's Note: One of the things we try to do here at the Cafe is uncover and challenge basic assumptions - our own and yours - about paying people. Managers are, frankly, too self serving to be trusted. These are common beliefs in our profession, don't you think?

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

As communicators know from their professional training, people don''t deliberate on numbers or any other information, they react immediately and emotionally. Then you''d be better off shining a harsher light via the smaller number, in order to encourage employees to feel emotionally driven to achieve the targeted results.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2019

According to behavioral economists, we have a lot to learn about designing cash incentives. It is common with MBOs, sales programs and classic incentive designs. Oddly, opacity rather than transparency is the advice coming from a recent paper in a highly regarded journal. You know the problem.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 6, 2019

This enables you to see things you need to see, and do things you might not have tried on your own yet, so you're better able to develop a plan. Does VR show that managers can't or won't pull off what your design has in mind for them? Today's article is the second in a series on the Virtual Reality (VR) of compensation plan design.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

This "war story" is the one about the Compensation Director who hired a firm to develop a new compensation program. If you think that all you need from executives is a sign-off, you can run into serious problems. That meeting signaled the end of the project. It's a telling true-life experience. I've seen it happen many times.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 23, 2015

I''ve written a lot about implementation on Compensation Cafe, including a series that starts with this article. Why keep harping on it? Companies who are more effective at implementation are those that are most admired and deliver the highest financial returns -- I thought you''d like to know. Why bring this up again?

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The online Business Dictionary defines business strategy as: -A method or plan chosen to bring about a desired future, such as achievement of a goal or solution to a problem. When it came time to develop a strategy for the function, her first step was to send an Associate level staff member to talk with employees.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

Experienced designers will advise you, tell you and urge you to start with a really good problem definition. Did I ever mention how important a good problem definition is?) The problem is, they don''t often tell you what a good problem definition involves, what it will offer you and how to get there. So here goes. Let''s look at a poor example.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2015

She's CEO and co-founder of Tilde, a small open-source training and consulting startup. She's CEO and co-founder of Tilde, a small open-source training and consulting startup. And what great stuff -- a real opportunity to share and discuss a "war story" about pay transparency over coffee at the Cafe.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The Bay Area Compensation Association ( BACA ) is celebrating the holidays with a keynote speech previewing the 2018 economy. Our speaker is Gary Schlossberg , Senior Economist at Wells Capital Management , so we're banking on up-to-the minute information on next year's fiscal and monetary policies, as well as worldwide market trends.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2015

HBR's article, " Why Organizations Don't Learn ," in November's issue was an eye opener for me. Virtually everyone in our compensation biz believes that companies must learn to be able to improve. The HBR writers point out how an excessive, single minded pursuit of this goal impedes learning -- and, therefore, success.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 29, 2015

You can find the headline " One-Time Bonuses and Perks Muscle Out Pay Raises for Workers " on the front page of the Business Day section. If you watch how a company handles compensation, you can learn a lot about its business principles, its belief in the future, as well as its Human Resource practices. (In Here are some of my ideas.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2015

Learn how to make it an annual opportunity to improve your career prospects in our popular eBook, Everything You Do (in Compensation) Is Communication. Learn how to make it an annual opportunity to improve your career prospects in our popular eBook, Everything You Do (in Compensation) Is Communication.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 17, 2015

You could use this simple (but profound) concept to drive a groundbreaking pay-for-performance reboot, if you think about it and are willing to learn some new stuff. Want to learn more about how you can turn these facts into actions? About what really matters in our work, of course. Without their help, you idea will fail.

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