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Growing a Healthy Compensation Program -- Part Two

Compensation Cafe

We'll identify some of their missteps -- common to companies their size -- then discuss what they can do to achieve healthy compensation habits. Case background: In the first article , we looked at the compensation habits of a company called Healthy Gadgets, a new medical device company that began with fewer than 100 employees.

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Why Today’s Incentive Thinking Is Different

Achievers

Too often in human history, this meant that people with less power were simply compelled to work, and incentives — if they existed — consisted merely of being allowed to survive. After several evolutionary waves, we have a deeper insight into what truly motivates people, and today’s incentives are about far more than compensation.

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Compensation Communications: Should I Say How I Feel?

Compensation Cafe

Many of our colleagues would say that compensation has nothing to do with feelings. On the other hand, feelings have a lot to do with compensation COMMUNICATIONS. On the other hand, feelings have a lot to do with compensation COMMUNICATIONS. Addressing feelings through compensation communications is tricky business.

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When You're Cornered, Why Not Step Aside?

Compensation Cafe

Here are a few tips from organizations that have learned about the ugly combo of panic and compensation. Case #1: [Select an option: IT, Sales, Research, Production] department head is running amok. "We More importantly they often distract you from much more productive triage work when you're in a serious situation.

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Ready, Set, Go, Go, Go!!!

Compensation Cafe

They are setting up another production location and we have been talking about how to make this work. Like every company back to the Cro-Magnon period, they are starting out by looking at compensation. In a start up, a paycheck/incentive talks to the employee about the future as much as the present. So back to that paycheck.

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Structuring Budgets and Rules in Your Channel Incentive Program

Workstride

If you’re reading this post, it’s likely you’re running incentives to partners and using some sort of system to manage it all. Partner incentives, like any system, involves a set of structured rules, requirements, and budgets in order to ensure operational and cost control. As they say, wealth is all relative. For example: .

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Employee Rewards and Recognition: 10 Examples of Incentives That Don’t Work

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Employee Rewards and Recognition: 10 Incentives that Don't Work. Incentive Rewards. Our Incentive rewards inspire motivation in your participants and produce the most ROI for your brand. Incentive Programs. Our incentive programs are strategically designed to help produce measurable growth for your business.