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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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Growing a Healthy Compensation Program -- Part Two

Compensation Cafe

We'll identify some of their missteps -- common to companies their size -- then discuss what they can do to achieve healthy compensation habits. Case background: In the first article , we looked at the compensation habits of a company called Healthy Gadgets, a new medical device company that began with fewer than 100 employees.

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Focus Group Check In

Compensation Cafe

Has the new product rollout affected the number of promotions?". 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 everythingiscommunication.com.

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How to Improve Your Compensation Communications

Compensation Cafe

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

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Issue #2: Organizational culture A hybrid work schedule offers many benefits, including improved work-life balance and higher productivity. Focus on work-life balance : Encourage leadership to communicate to their teams the importance of taking regular, frequent breaks to refresh their minds and maintain productivity.

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How To Communicate Compensation Plans to Differing Generations

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. One helpful demographic to consider when crafting your compensation communication plans is generation. Learn More About Our Compensation Software. Click To Tweet.

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How to Budget Compensation Communications

Compensation Cafe

It's important to do these last since you can't be accurate about the building blocks for your final products until you understand them.). Then it's finally time to turn back to list the preliminary, preparatory steps up to the announcement: focus groups, interviews, manager briefings, executive approvals and so on.