Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2021

It's hard to make any progress on this unless you know what the end product should look like, so ask a consultant for a briefing. Especially for annual programs like incentives that are not thought about in every month of the year. Job architecture -- We talk about this often in the Compensation Cafe.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

You can: Count on early productivity with limited or no supervision. Incentives. Research shows that many employees see annual incentive payments as a gift that signifies their relationship with the company. Mid-career hires take this to the next level. S/he brings valuable qualities that are in short supply.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

While bleeding-edge technical knowledge may be critical to some organizations, knowledge and skills customized to the company -- and thus, only learned on the job -- are becoming more and more important to companies that differentiate on product knowledge and/or customer service. Do you use career levels to price jobs?

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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 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. Case background: Healthy Gadgets is a new medical device company with fewer than 100 employees who both research and produce its products.

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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

JUNE 19, 2018

New products are in the pipeline, so they're hiring engineers and scientists. Experience has shown that the managers who crabbed about the time they needed to spend on this kind of project will inevitably become believers, especially if the titles help them address their employees' career development questions.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 26, 2017

I have no doubt that EBITDA is the right target measure for most companies to hang all or part of incentive plan funding on. Will it cause the manager in shipping to make an effort to improve delivery times so this year's incentive plan is funded? If you don't want people to think of their incentive as an annuity, think about this.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 9, 2018

After all, if you have a good product, why don't consumers just buy it and make you loads of money? They have to introduce new insurance and wellness products regularly. 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

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Brainstorm beforehand about ways the project could grow revenue, improve productivity, reduce recruiting costs or turnover to give the execs a solid case. 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 8, 2017

Candidates want to know about your company's present strengths including stock performance, CEO style, new products, customer successes and so on. They also want to know your company's plans for the future, which they will use as a road map for their own career potential in your company.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 14, 2017

In the meantime, the work world has changed immensely in terms of regulatory policies, economics, workforce priorities, data analytics, productivity through technology 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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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 31, 2017

As TW points out "HR and Finance have a shared mandate: Reduce costs, sustain or enhance productivity, and keep the talent pipeline full. 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 8, 2015

I''m thinking I need to change my approach to that so we can increase (revenue, product value, customer satisfaction, collaboration, innovation and so on) and/or decrease (margin, expenses, time to market, and so on). Ready to make a difference in your company and your career? At last, I''m going to be involved in work that matters.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

You'll be slowing down talent acquisition and perhaps looking overseas for new markets or lower cost production options. which has had a sudden effect on production, services and staffing. jobs if we have to adjust to new production strategies. It will help you advance in your career. Income getting tight?

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Use the communications in this form and once employees get a whiff of it, you'll be paying consultants for years to help you get your productivity back on track. You can't go wrong with a copy of the popular ebook, Everything You Do (in Compensation) Is Communication @ www.everythingiscommunication.com.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

They make decisions that are based on productivity, not politics. Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. They create a culture of clear accountability. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2015

let's not just stick those incentives on a flat base pay and call it total compensation. Use determination to stick with this "soft" concept, until we can guide our leadership team into the next three years of talent growth and productivity, not just the next 12 months. To employees' sense of compensation, too.

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