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Cafe Classic: Rethinking Compensation Training

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: Is your manager training on compensation failing to get the job done? Here's a look at a few ways compensation training could become far more effective. In our world of performance management and compensation, each department or division has different employee performance and talent management demands.

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Where's the Fun in our Compensation Jobs?

Compensation Cafe

We really don't spend much time studying the emotions we feel as we practice compensation. Some people find compensation basics boring -- job analysis, job definition, job pricing using surveys and so on. Compensation success isn't holed up in the HR office, it's live tested out there between managers and employees.

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5 Common HR Issues for Small Businesses and How to Solve Them

Extensis

Learning and development : Coach up-and-coming managers to build a pipeline of support, provide training on soft skills like time management, leverage technology to streamline processes, or consider outsourcing some tasks to lighten managers’ workloads. Note: HRO partnerships do not involve a co-employment relationship.

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Manager Talking Points for Compensation Conversations: Part II

Compensation Today

This is an excerpt from our recent ebook collaboration with BambooHR entitled Everything You Need to Know About Communicating Pay. Download the full ebook here. Quick aside on “negotiations” during increase/compensation review meetings: This should not be happening between manager and employee. GET A DEMO.

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Growing a Healthy Compensation Program

Compensation Cafe

There is a good-sized HR budget, plus the total HR and Compensation staff usually adds up to at least six practitioners who have had enough experience to know what "wellness" looks like. Here are some of the compensation decisions typically made in a turbo-charged, highly fragmented setting like Healthy Gadgets'.

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3 Clues to 2020 Performance Management

Compensation Cafe

Get yourself behind competencies and then coach managers how to use them. A former Board member for the Bay Area Compensation Association (BACA), Margaret coauthored the popular eBook, Everything You Do (in Compensation) Is Communications, a toolkit that all practitioners can find at [link]. And, it's not just you.

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It's Time to Talk about Milestones

Compensation Cafe

At Compensation Cafe, we believe compensation is a form of change management. We tend to use them to time our race rather than coach our players to MBO outcomes. But performance management can be an effective learning and development process, setting the manager up to provide coaching at behavioral milestones during the year.