Compensation Cafe

JULY 17, 2020

Responsiveness is one of a group of competencies that will be communicated as reminders through a campaign that includes email, manager discussions and videos on the intranet. Take another example -- you need to communicate the bad news that mid-year bonuses will not be paid because of business conditions.

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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. Wouldn't it be great to share your key dates for performance management, salary discussions etc. Looking at clear skies these days? You know, that ones that never seem to make it onto anyone's dashboard.

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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

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. In other words, it seems like people who are saving the world in the capital markets give them credibility, so we might as well give it a try it, too.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Compensation Cafe has covered Wells Fargo's pay practices since 2009, when the Bank canceled prefunded employee recognition and rewards events in the midst of the Recession, blaming it on federal government restrictions on bank practices following the subprime mortgage crisis. That means your compensation plan, too.). Implementation Planning.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

How well do managers play their role? How well do you orient managers? Does management understand how you manage the data and do they agree with your schedule? How well do you plan your employee communications? Do you keep up with employee and manager questions and concerns?

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Well, you know. 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 28, 2020

88% of participants have increased the number and frequency of communications from senior leadership, including topics like business continuity -- with 77% using video and web conferencing as well as email, and 33% using texting, among many communication channels. Most are offering help on an as-needed basis.

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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

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

APRIL 25, 2019

Let's face it, the job switch is a life event for most of your candidates, involving substantial change and readjustment as well as career promise. 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.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 17, 2020

Otherwise we won't ENGAGE IN THE ACTIONS like self-quarantine which may be good for older citizens, but we wouldn't be at all willing to take an action like that without obtaining detailed insights into its importance, as well as discussing it with family and friends. if we are to stay well and safe.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 16, 2020

Trust is in short supply because of, well, everything and things don't seem to be getting any less difficult as time goes by. Performance review. Incentives. manager's briefings. manager's tools. performance management administration system. After all, Human Resources is having shortages of our own.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And usually the specific issue is merit increases and/or bonuses. Well, there's the, "Customer-facing is the only one who should get increases." Yes, you may need to have some serious discussions with management, but don't confuse gravitas with bad feelings as you build compromises with your C-suite. So where do you start?

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

In fact, many of us have bought blenders specifically to make smoothies (as well as Margaritas, but that's another story). Well, if the employee's current responsibilities are commonly assigned to more than one benchmark job, you've got a blended job. A smoothie is a drink made from pureed raw fruit combined in a blender.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2019

For example, it will just frustrate employees if you include the question, "I am well informed as to how my job fits into our company's business strategy" with no plans of improving that dimension of communication. I agree with the performance rating I received on my last performance appraisal. Don't overdo it though.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2021

You need to understand the work process well enough to break it into steps and identify the staff, time and other resources you need. 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

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. How well the objectives were achieved in the past year and why.

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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. Managers are more likely to support employee focus groups when they are in an August frame of mind, as well.

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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. WorldatWork gets it on camera.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

These metrics will provide useful insights into your practices, as well as discussion points when the time comes for the next expensive hire. 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 9, 2018

They have to introduce new insurance and wellness products regularly. Insurance and wellness products are not employee favorites, but financial stability, reliable healthcare, getting enough sleep, losing weight, and so on are employee priorities. Our benefits colleagues have a lot of experience with these fundamentals of marketing.

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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. 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, 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. 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

AUGUST 7, 2017

I know from long experience that most of us have a bad habit of putting off planning end-of-year performance and pay activities until late September/early October. It works well enough every year so why think hard about it this year? Well, let's see. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 28, 2020

And when you are writing the materials, make sure there is information at the "expert" level as well as the "beginner" level so incumbents don't have to wade through the same amount of detail as the newbies. Of course, there are new compensation practices to take into account as well.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Your reception depends heavily on how well you handle the time allotted you -- and even more important, how well you smooth decision-making for the executives. Solutions -- Realize that you need to inspire an emotional urgency as well as intellectual interest in you presentation. Slam dunk, right? End of project.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

This includes employee surveys, since they help us understand how well employees are able to shift their attention away from job concerns and to customer care. 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 5, 2019

Market tested your incentive rates? You're thrilled that you just finished a great big project that will make employees and managers happy. Instead, it IS time to raise consciousness by providing an overview (one that managers can appreciate, as well). Have you just invented your company's first salary structure?

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Well, for those of you who don''t buy the "soft stuff," it''s time to pay attention. 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%.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 22, 2019

Margaret O'Hanlon brings science to bear on this Classic challenge and explains why this ultimately may not serve the organization, its mission or its people well. They are well intentioned but misguided, and it's our job to point it out early and often -- whether or not the CEO has compensation on the agenda.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

That's much harder to achieve if your CEO is not well known or respected by employees. Make your goal to help managers handle performance management and increase discussions exceptionally well this year. Invite your "median employee" to help finalize merit increases.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 25, 2018

Well, one important detail is that their cash compensation is higher than most other in the marketplace. So this one time, managers don't feel they need to ratchet up pay to contend with competitors -- or to contend with barely satisfied employees. Another important detail is that all employees are eligible for incentives.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 11, 2016

Briana, Jennifer and Brett rely on their managers to answer the various compensation, performance and career questions that are inevitable given their profiles. But are their managers prepared to take on these three, very different conversations and navigate each of them equally well? Probably not.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 17, 2021

Well, try to sneak a peek at some other organization's job architecture or go to a professional meeting where an example is outlined. Margaret O'Hanlon brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. What to do in the meantime?

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

But if it isn't enough to give executives a tight, well-crafted plan, how and when do you communicate with the executive team? Whether you want to introduce some changes or get approval for the end-of-the-year tactics, your communication goal should be to give executives the chance to act as your well-briefed advisors.

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