Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In my last blog article , I explained how you can cut and paste your way to a compensation philosophy. 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. Don't know where to start?

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 7, 2020

We're trying to manage pressures we've never faced before in an environment we never would have dreamed of. But what does burnout have to do with the Compensation Department? Performance management and engagement are undermined by burnout -- and both are part of our portfolio. So what can we really do to help?

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2020

You'll find a long list of articles in Compensation Cafe recommending that you create a "message platform" to build your Compensation communications. (It Of course, anyone in Compensation can list a set of messages describing the value proposition of working for your company. How is a Compensation message platform different?

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2020

After all, those who handle compensation influence most talent strategy components including recruiting, performance management, development and staffing. . Compensation, of course, is in a better position than most of HR to develop financial insights. Why is HR's ability still in question?

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2020

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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Primalogik

MARCH 2, 2023

Performance management tools have become essential to HR operations. Not only do they assist the HR department; they also help managers throughout the organization to guide their teams to success. Consider that only 2% of companies feel they have a great approach to performance management. Table of Contents 1.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 29, 2018

Cooley (otherwise know as "the #1 law firm on Fortune's best company list") does a great job of aggregating early pay-ratio trends from a variety of sources including Mercer , Bloomberg and Compensation Advisory Partners. Margaret is a Board member of the Bay Area Compensation Association (BACA).

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15Five

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Together these two practices offer managers an elegant solution for receiving employee feedback and responding in a way that re-aligns employees with their quarterly Objectives. This post includes excerpts from our latest eBook: 15Five’s Comprehensive OKR Guide: How To Launch, Track, and Achieve Your Objectives & Key Results.

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Achievers

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Before we hit that reboot button on our performance management programs, let’s be absolutely clear on what performance management actually is, and why we should be doing it. Drive overall organizational performance. More simply, consider them the fundamental building blocks for the design project ahead of you.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Take a look: Reinforce that the compensation study has confirmed that our compensation is competitive, and the new compensation plan practices are common in companies of our size, client relationships and sales objectives. Explain how the new plan supports our Company's Vision to set the standard of excellence for our industry.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Plus, every bit of research tells us it's critical to effective compensation. If you're a regular reader of Compensation Cafe, you know that when we talk about pay transparency, we're referring to being clear(er) about how compensation works. We've been talking about it for years, after all.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 16, 2019

Planning to renovate your performance management program? It will not only update your understanding of performance improvement methods, but it will also upend the beliefs that drive your current program. There are some solid recommendations here that can be turned into an up-to-date approach to performance management.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 24, 2020

Next, look closely at the competencies you are using for performance management and career development. 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.

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Extensis

APRIL 4, 2024

Administrative services organization (ASO) : ASOs oversee day-to-day HR administration but do not sponsor employee benefit programs or workers’ compensation coverage. Additionally, employees remain on the company’s FEIN number, and the company assumes all associated risk.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 19, 2019

I recently ran into a study on effective performance management practices that I want to share with you. Not because it says anything really new, but because it does a great job on focus and insight, attributes we can all use when it comes to performance management. Procedural fairness is defined as, ". .

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 14, 2017

Editor's Note: In today's Classic post, we revisit Margaret O'Hanlon's sage career advice for fellow compensation pros. HR Operations and Compensation Design). If you're in Compensation but unaware of what's in the annual report, you really may not be doing your job as well as you could. Looking to advance? Then listen up.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 24, 2017

Everything we do in compensation is communication. This is not only the name of a fabulous book (see my bio), but it also describes a fundamental belief of many Compensation Cafe writers. Compensation colleagues, you can create a compensation plan with this principle in mind, and still miss many important nuances.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 10, 2022

Managers are the compensation communicators in your company. Not HR, not Legal, not even the CEO whose job is to explain why your compensation program makes good business sense -- but doesn't have to explain another 3%ish increase to a new parent. Do your managers have everything they need to make your work successful?

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 10, 2017

But when I was talking this request over with a growing company recently, I was reminded of a few war stories that I usually share in Compensation 101 classes. The Director of HR in a high tech company requested a compensation study proposal because they hadn't checked competitive pay levels for over three years.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 17, 2020

If you're starting to see those building blocks through the haze, let's take a shot at a parallel compensation case story. Let's say we're introducing a new pay program with an emphasis on pay for performance, and the first step is making everyone aware of the new program. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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WorkTech

MARCH 9, 2017

Compensation Practices Driving Cultural Shifts In Performance Management Explored In New #HRWins eBook. Free eBook Download. A lot has been said about the shift from annual performance reviews and employee engagement measurement to more frequent surveys. I can’t even remember those days.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

When it comes to performance management, I mean. The performance management process involves talking about past events; give and take about performance outcomes; and, "blue-skying it" about the future. In a perfect world, that's really all there would be to performance discussions.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2021

Not a great foundation for a compensation practice! Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. Some of the findings verify long held beliefs but many more are counterintuitive.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 17, 2020

Many of our colleagues would say that compensation has nothing to do with feelings. On the other hand, feelings have a lot to do with compensation COMMUNICATIONS. On the other hand, feelings have a lot to do with compensation COMMUNICATIONS. Addressing feelings through compensation communications is tricky business.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 5, 2020

There may be more worthwhile goals for a compensation department to have than pay transparency , though the national media wouldn't have you believe it. After all, how many could actually be ready for such a dramatic intervention when typical compensation communications gets a limited investment in time or money each year?

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Margaret O'Hanlon 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

AUGUST 20, 2019

Everything we do in compensation is communications. Change management should be the foundation of 90% of compensation communications. No wonder there can be so much frustration about the effectiveness of compensation communications. Here are three basics of our work. Why is change such a big part of it?

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Editor's Note: How is your compensation program's relationship with your employees going. In her Classic post, Margaret O'Hanlon shows us how to rethink this relationship by considering how employee compensation is a lot like dating. Show me that you've heard me by giving me more of what matters the most to me -- cash compensation."

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 27, 2020

Looking for a practical example of a compensation communications strategy? In short, there are two parts to a message platform for Compensation communications: Key messages are short statements designed to show that Rewards practices are linked to business practices in a way that ultimately benefits the employee. Absolutely.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

McKinsey & Company is a global business strategy firm, so it wasn't addressing performance management in its two articles on " bias busters " and the " halo effect ," but while I was reading them I stumbled on an observation that rattled my embedded mindset about performance management. Let me explain.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 28, 2020

What have data and analytics got to do with compensation communications? Imagine you had to tell the Compensation Committee that the company couldn't afford one of their proposals. Many clients are surprised to learn that you "take things apart to put them back together again" when you design compensation communications.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2020

How many times have you heard that compensation communications needs to take a marketing approach? Deeper understanding should make it possible to get better at your compensation communications. We have to accept that employees have opinions about every aspect of their pay, pay administration and manager skills.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 22, 2020

In this Classic post, Margaret O'Hanlon introduces us to a couple of "laws" touted in Economics that offer lessons we'd be wise to add to our compensation (and broader HR) toolkits! Performance management is the first thing that comes to mind. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Give them examples of support they can verbalize with their management team. Collaborate with managers in real time. The compensation communication cycle takes many weeks -- too long to be disconnected from your audiences. Treat compensation as part of the business cycle. Make it clear that all suggestions are welcome.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Any day now you're going to need to get serious about planning compensation communications. I thought I'd give you a condensed version of how to organize communications for a calendar-year compensation plan. Planning for compensation communications can seem so rigid -- don't let that happen to you this year.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. Margaret is a Board member of the Bay Area Compensation Association (BACA). Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 20, 2016

Then I realized that I might be on to something that you would find interesting when my Board of the Bay Area Compensation Association (BACA) invited Gary Schlossberg of Wells Capital Management to speak about, 'From "Goldilocks" to "Alice in Wonderland:" The U.S. and Global Economies in a ""Post-Brexit" World.'.

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