Compensation Cafe

MAY 5, 2020

Comparing incentive plans to a pandemic response seems like a stretch, but great incentive plans are all about stretching. Stretching company performance. The weeks inside have given me the time to realize the lessons a pandemic team can learn from the perspective of incentive plan design and execution. The list is long.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 31, 2017

Instant answers to any remuneration issue are made available at your fingertips! Spice up your initial cafeteria offerings with the perfect blend of base, incentive, extrinsic, variable, flex, step, intrinsic, static and untrinsic elements. Office of Personnel Management. and even in your private dining room.

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ATD Human Capital

MARCH 22, 2016

Performance management system failure most often comes down to a lack of clear purpose. However, a lack of alignment can also derail performance management systems. Is Performance Management Aligned? Managers are usually on the hot seat for failures. Let’s take a look at these more closely.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2019

It turns out that incentive compensation doesn’t just work, it can work too well at motivating the wrong behaviors. Make sure you design your incentive plan to reduce the possibility and rewards for cheating. Incentive plans are difficult to get perfect. Or, follow him on Twitter at @ DanFutureSense.

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ClearCompany HRM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to Gallup , only two in 10 employees say they are motivated by current performance management methods. If performance reviews are the first thing that pops into your head when you think of performance management, your process might need a little TLC — there’s a lot more to performance than reviews.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 20, 2016

The video below shows the valedictorian speech at the high school graduation of a friend's kid. When we make performance management purely rules-based the people who score best are often those who are the best at following the rules, not the best at building company value. Connect with Dan on LinkedIn.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Closing the books on merit increases may be on schedule, but there are always loose ends to clear up before you get slammed with Q1 bonus and incentive work. 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

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Could it be that we are designing and communicating incentives for our highest performance all wrong? This study specifically looked at the impact of incentives on motor and neurological performance in high-pressure situations. The real question should be what this may mean for future incentive plan design.

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Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Of Employees Feel That Recognition Affects Their Motivation To Succeed At Work By Structure Formal Recognition Formal recognition programs are structured initiatives within organizations designed to acknowledge and reward employees' achievements and contributions systematically and officially.

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Business Management Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

Employees who struggle at work put employers in a difficult spot. Intuition suggests that everyone’s good at something, but while managers can mine optimism to dispel some clouds of frustration, the fact is that unless an unproductive team member performs better, their role is in jeopardy. What would be their dream job?

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The 17 words listed align incredibly well with common incentive plan designs. A quick review of incentive pay basics. But, if you ask the people at the very top, they will usually tell you that people shouldn’t expect to get paid on their bonus. That leaves three that don’t fit our normal incentive models. About Even.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Today is a steaming jolt of quadruple espresso in response to the Wells Fargo incentive pay mess. Let me start with the fact that I have been interviewed a few times about this story and even I was surprised by my response to the question, “What companies in the financial world are considered to have good incentive programs?”

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A friend of mine likes to say: “It’s not that incentive pay doesn’t work well, it’s that it works TOO well. Like any well-designed incentive compensation plan, Wells Fargo’s started with a strong company culture and a simple goal that required special effort. Get every customer to have at least 8 financial products through Wells Fargo.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 2, 2020

Training will change and performance management will adjust with it. I believe this ethos will return to plans at the most effective companies. There will be a rethinking of the concept of “long-term” incentive plans. Incentive plans will respect this value in both design and potential value.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 11, 2022

Incentive plans, short and long-term, cash and equity based, depend on a level of uncertainty. You may be surprised when you find out how many of your managers either confidently answer questions incorrectly, or create even more uncertainty by not having any answers at all. Or follow him on Twitter at @ DanFutureSense.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It's time to accept that your job has changed from gatekeeper (limiting access to pay knowledge until employees are "ready") to educator (describing the nuts and bolts of salaries and incentives). After all, it's not just compensation information you'll be sharing but, eventually, a whole new open-book pay-for-performance philosophy.)

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

They need to build a foundation that can support them as they grow their career and excel at their job. Grow metrics and goals work especially well for short-term-incentive programs and as interim measurements in long-term incentive programs. They only want to pay people incentives if they have proven results.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2020

Although we are continually reminded to be alert for perverse incentives , little is usually said about the proper use of disincentives. It would seem that books could be filled with tips on how to use negatives in a positive manner and how to avoid abuses when using “punishments.”

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 4, 2022

We make hundreds of small decisions like this every time we benchmark compensation, determine incentive pay levels, set goals, and decide on merit increase minutiae. A growing best practice is building regular reporting summaries at critical decision and measurement points. At their best, they also include the "why" of each decision.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2019

New incentive coming up next year? Performance measures are changing, that means employees' current behaviors/habits need to be readjusted, or even rejected, for the new goals to be met or exceeded. Instead we look at what's coming up and plan for that, as if all our great ideas will just replace the old ones when they are announced.

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Netchex HR Blog

JULY 29, 2021

Problem employees can negatively impact your business in more far-reaching ways than you might believe, including: Company culture Team morale Productivity and other performance management issues Recruiting & onboarding cost Training time Company reputation and profits. We’ve all been there… first day at a new job.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 11, 2020

You may have been involved in laying friends off, furloughing colleagues, cutting pay for executives, putting holds on merit increases, temporarily modifying incentive plans, marketing pricing for newly remote positions, all while working from a dining room table, teaching math, and cooking more food than an average holiday season.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 21, 2020

For at least a few decades, this has been the way of things in the world of compensation. When the vast majority of companies have incentive programs that look very similar, but prospects that look far different, we must consider whether “market data” truly reflects our markets. Take a good hard look at your pay programs. (Go

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Every compensation professional who has ever worked on an incentive plan has struggled long and hard with figuring out exactly what was to be accomplished, how it could be measured, what levels of achievement were good enough, what levels were actually good and what levels were truly great. Dan welcomes connections on LinkedIn.

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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. I will cover the first three sizes in the series and leave it at that. This is the first in a series.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 3, 2019

There is an extreme mismatch between what our employees really want and our efforts at motivating them (through feedback, merit increases and incentives). . The thing is, we seem to be easily distracted by the loud and charismatic, especially when their books sell well. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2014

You may have already completed performance appraisal discussions, but performance should certainly be part of the discussion when 2014 increases and bonuses are covered with employees. There really is something you can do at the 11th hour that could help. Give your managers discussion outlines to use in these meetings.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 3, 2014

By contrast, consultants excel at packaging, selling, and diffusing “best practices,” that is the innovations of others, while rewards professionals are best at developing and implementing detailed designs. First, benefits go to all, regardless of performance. Increase pay for performance. Implications.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2018

You probably would be looking at this article if you couldn’t read basic sentences. But this is how many companies view targets for their incentive plans. Too often, plans are designed this way because of a misunderstanding of incentive pay. They should require people to stretch at least a little bit. Not impressed?

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 20, 2022

Dan is a leading expert on incentive plans and equity compensation issues. He has written several industry resources including a resource dedicated to Performance-Based Equity Compensation. Or follow him on Twitter at @ DanFutureSense. Connect with Dan on LinkedIn. Connect with Dan on LinkedIn.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Annual and long-term incentive plans are often not as well cared for. They just exist and perform as designed and we may not dig back into them more than every couple or three years. Just like the fact that most kids don’t grow up wishing to be a dentist, few compensation professionals aspire to be mavens of incentive plans.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

A short example of the takeaway lesson -- when it comes to reporting incentive results, it''s more likely to be perceived as substantively positive to say that you''ve achieved 96% of goal that to say you missed the goal by only 4%. the best Comp book I''ve seen and I recommend you get a copy." This week''s word of mouth?

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Heck, if employees failed to meet their individual objectives as badly as compensation people seem to have fumbled the ball, they would get stern rebukes, critical performance reviews, remedial action plans and downgraded performance appraisal ratings. No bonuses, either! Creative Commons image "Lefty Clock" by RBertelg.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Is time wasting, as a product of poorly structured (and perhaps poorly incented) management undermining your reward program? Managers feel the need to minimize costs -- at all costs -- and pursue wide involvement and buy-in as a form of self-protection against accountability and failure. Would they get fired?

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

And how efficiently can you identify the obstacles that your current reward programs -- base pay delivery, incentives, benefit plans and programs -- will toss into the path of the workforce transformation that must now happen? It's classic Innovator's Dilemma stuff. She earned her M.B.A.

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Engagedly

JUNE 9, 2022

of employees want to work from home at least one day per week. Work management software that can ensure that there’s no confusion about who’s supposed to do what. . Performance Review Process. Are there incentives for doing well? By using a meeting scheduler , you can manage your time and meetings in an effective manner.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

If your open enrollment is on autopilot by now, your to-do list is probably loaded with performance review implementation steps and soon to be bulging with budgeting, merit increase and incentive award activities. We may be old hands at these things, but there is always room for improvement. And the managers use them.)

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