Long-time experts in this profession are accustomed to balancing the needs of the workforce, business, and regulators. Now more than ever there are new challenges for Total Rewards professionals to get ahead of – or risk being caught off guard. From Total Rewards to Total Relationships. MORE

Many star employees are probably ready to leave their companies. Is your business prepared to attract them?". It's especially easy for us to get bogged down in the weeds right now, and it's exactly the wrong time for it if we're going to shine at recruiting new talent. MORE

Human Resources continues to get that dig from executives, so your misgivings may just make you a bona fide HR professional (but not a leader of your organization). Maybe we should start 12-step groups to finally make some headway on this in our profession? MORE

With apologies to Mr. Twain for paraphrasing, reports on the death of performance review ratings are not only grossly exaggerated, but missing the mark entirely. The issue isn’t just about pay-for-performance. Develop effective performance management processes. MORE

Employee pay specialists, how much empathy do you feel for your executive comp colleagues who are racing to be ready for the Pay Ratio announcement next year? Are you starting to feel like focal review and merit pay take away from the time you need to work on Pay Ratio planning? MORE

Long-time experts in this profession are accustomed to balancing the needs of the workforce, business, and regulators. Now more than ever there are new challenges for Total Rewards professionals to get ahead of – or risk being caught off guard. From Total Rewards to Total Relationships. MORE

Prospective employees see career development as among the most important reasons to sign with —and stay with — with your organization. And, while you may think you are offering top-notch learning and development programs, they don’t think you are doing such a great job. Surveys show that workers and employers don’t agree on how well organizations are meeting employees’ development expectations. Employee development. Leadership development. MORE

Currently, many organizations question their performance management. The reason for that is an increasing number of employees in competence-based jobs as technical and manufacturing jobs are disappearing due to automation. Digital tools support the individual development. MORE

Editor's Note: In today’s classic, Margaret O’Hanlon serves up a fundamental challenge to the way we think about salaries. Research from the Hay Group helps us realize that employees have stronger feelings about pay “fairness” in relation to other employees than about external competitiveness. MORE

A rushed approach to succession planning can also have a detrimental effect on your talent management. When the business is functioning smoothly, it can be easy to overlook the need to plan for the unexpected departure of one of your key employees. Succession planning must be a formally agreed strategy in order to succeed and provide a ready made talent pool for your future vacancies. In the tech sector alone 95% of decision makers admit to making a bad hire. MORE