Compensation Cafe

APRIL 8, 2019

Bonuses are paid, last year's results are old news and grand plans for this year have been signed, sealed and delivered. Sure you're barely out of the first quarter, but now's the time to develop a joint end-of-year calendar with your other Total Rewards' practitioners. Looking at clear skies these days? Here are a few thoughts.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 17, 2020

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.

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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). Otherwise you will lose the battle of misguided data. Getting a return on your pay transparency investment.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

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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Compensation Cafe

MAY 22, 2020

concepts like performance appraisal practices, bonus allocation, merit increase awards, high potential selection and, well, most of the things that we spend our time on. Performance management is the first thing that comes to mind. Spoiler alert -- the "laws" are not based on research but are subjective individual perceptions.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 25, 2019

If there is no complete definition of regular rate of pay, their lawyers ask, what if the government counts T-shirts and anniversary bonuses? SHRM is publicly supporting the DOL's proposed new rule specifying that the following are excluded from the definition of regular rate of pay: Anniversary bonuses. Discounts on gift cards.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 16, 2020

Career development. Performance review. Incentives. manager's briefings. manager's tools. performance management administration system. 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

JANUARY 26, 2021

salary increases and bonuses with flimsy links to everyday work, it's hard to engage people beyond job security unless you have career development alternatives to offer. 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

APRIL 28, 2020

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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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 25, 2020

Compensation communications should be integrated with organizational change efforts from the beginning to make it clear that reward, recognition and career growth are central to the new way of working. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Remember, some companies have begun to put their differentiation efforts into incentive payments rather than salary increases. Incentive decisions can also be peanut buttered, as I'm sure you've noticed. Differentiation in incentives holds up best when different employees have different incentive goals.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 28, 2019

Whether you are redesigning your base pay program or creating an incentive plan, it pays to learn from experienced colleagues, so I've included links to Compensation Cafe articles about each of these three best practices. Spend time understanding the nature and root causes of the performance challenges that your new plan must address.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Does management understand how you manage the data and do they agree with your schedule? Do you keep up with employee and manager questions and concerns? 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

AUGUST 9, 2019

Get credit for your incentives. Many CEOs of small companies don't like to talk about incentives since they can't guarantee a yearly payout. The thing is, no good incentive plan guarantees a payout, and most large-company employees can remember years when the business couldn't fund an incentive.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 17, 2019

Face it, those auto-messages provided by compensation and performance management administration systems don't qualify as communications, so don't even try to count them in. What if you built a FAQ library that helped managers think through salary increase decisions (as well as explain the decisions to their employees)?

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

So what if the tools you are using are the same -- your performance management program, merit raises and bonuses? Your business is in a different place, your marketplace has changed and your managers are focused on different issues. How can the manager be prepared? Three more tips?

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 17, 2020

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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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

Performance management creates a constricted atmosphere that just doesn't work in this situation. And whose performance is -- yes -- being watched closely by your team. Incentives. Research shows that many employees see annual incentive payments as a gift that signifies their relationship with the company.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And usually the specific issue is merit increases and/or bonuses. Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. the recognition that employees genuinely depended on just doesn't show up. It will pay off.

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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. 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

JANUARY 5, 2021

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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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2021

Especially for annual programs like incentives that are not thought about in every month of the year. Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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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. New business goals coming up next year? Employees need to change their priorities and the work habits they've formed to achieve them.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

If they are managed right, these employees will appreciate the opportunity to demonstrate a breadth of skills and leadership abilities -- and they'll enjoy receiving recognition for "pitching-in.". Then there's the "little" problem of overpaying merit increases or bonuses to "make restitution" to employees in blended jobs.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2019

I agree with the performance rating I received on my last performance appraisal. I know what I can do to influence the size of my incentive. 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

DECEMBER 10, 2018

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. Providing managers with prompts that can help them articulate their thoughts, especially if they find themselves in a tough spot.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Does your company have a reliable career development infrastructure? Do you use career levels to price jobs? Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. How good are you at this?

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 10, 2017

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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Compensation Cafe

JULY 30, 2019

If you are going to make sure your compensation and performance management programs are procedurally fair , you've got research, analysis and strategy development to complete. It's time to have a modular communications plan that can be customized to a manager's needs. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 8, 2018

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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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Here are three tips you can use any time during the year, but most of all during merit increase and incentive award periods. A champion is someone who will guide and influence the progress of your communications, especially with senior management and department heads. Get yourself a champion (or champions).

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Especially informative is the Aon Hewitt visual about the share of companies' payrolls devoted to bonuses vs. the share devoted to salary increases. "If 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

MAY 3, 2019

Employees shoulder the burden of pay for performance, hating the carrot and stick. There is an extreme mismatch between what our employees really want and our efforts at motivating them (through feedback, merit increases and incentives). . If only we could scrap our current pay practices and start all over again.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Margaret O'Hanlon 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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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2019

At some point, wouldn't it be wiser to invest (in salaries, let alone other loyalty and trust issues like career development) rather than spend (on lower productivity, recruiting, orientations and so on)? Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2021

Find out what they thought about career programs, performance management, manager skills, their HR department. Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. And take some field trips.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Let’s say, a year when there will be layoffs and no bonuses. Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. Crises happen inside companies, too, and the same kind of disastrous consequences would emerge.

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