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4 Tips for 2020 Career Development

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What happens when you disappear raises, slim down bonuses, freeze salaries and/or jack up benefit costs? Career development no longer has to share the total rewards spotlight, and it becomes the go-to form of employee recognition. You may think that addressing career development is no big deal. Speak clearly.

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What Does a Bonus Mean?

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After all, we often don't make much of a communication effort when we award bonuses. When it comes to bonuses, the understood link with business results is often sketchy, too. If merit increases are about individual performance, bonuses are about team performance on the organizational level. Employees remember their multiplier.

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Growing a Healthy Compensation Program -- Part Two

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Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. Her firm, re:Think Consulting, provides market pay information and designs base salary structures, incentive plans, career paths and their implementation plans.

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If You Don't Give Raises This Year

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Your trade-off program(s) should probably fall under categories like professional growth, career opportunities, work breaks, medium-term incentives and so on. 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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Having Trouble Unplugging?

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

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In a start up, a paycheck/incentive talks to the employee about the future as much as the present. Do I have a career here? Get yourself a copy of Everything You Do (in Compensation) Is Communication @ www.everythingiscommunication.com, the convenient website where you can grab our popular eBook. So back to that paycheck.

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Compensation Communications: Should I Say How I Feel?

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Take another example -- you need to communicate the bad news that mid-year bonuses will not be paid because of business conditions. They may understand why there is no funding for bonuses, but they will still be disappointed. Everybody's been working full tilt. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.