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Strategy Not Part of Your Rep? Here's How to Change Their Minds

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In comparison, strategic insights occur when you put your compensation practices and philosophy in a new light, where the illumination falls on the challenges your company will face tomorrow. 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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Three Tips on Nonprofit Job Pricing Plus a Few on Benefits, Too!

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A unique Mission, wide catchment area and specialized staff that make pay comparisons uncomfortable. If you must compare benefit data, stick with the one data point that is most telling (and valid for comparison) -- an organization's benefit contributions divided by number of employees. Negligible budgets for commercial surveys.

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Is Pay Transparency a Gift? Agree, No Opinion, Disagree

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Pay-for-performance: "I am satisfied with how pay raises are determined.". Competitiveness: "In comparison with those in other companies with jobs similar to mine, I feel my pay is okay.". Right now most employee surveys address the basics: Overall satisfaction: "I am paid fairly for the work I do.".

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How Betty Crocker Thinks about Compensation

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Why ask managers and employees about how they understand pay for performance, when you're not planning to change the performance management process any time soon? I've finally come up with a good comparison that I want to share with you. Think birthday cakes. You can buy a boxed mix and canned frosting.

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Cafe Classic: Nonprofits, It's Time to Improve Your Total Rewards ROI

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Of course, they typically don't have to work 65-hour weeks, shoulder production goals or watch their medical deductibles increase every year -- and because they don't think in terms of Total Rewards, these comparisons never occur to them. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Deepen Your Value to Your Company

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How can you explain the comparison to candidates? Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. What are your competitors' strengths and weaknesses? Has your organization successfully positioned itself in relation to them?

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Compensation Communications that Hit the Mark This Time

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We'll talk about how this works in a minute, but let's start by checking out this comparison. 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.