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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

A great motto for the day after Memorial Day, as well as for this series! We'll identify some of their missteps -- common to companies their size -- then discuss what they can do to achieve healthy compensation habits. Common compensation practices when a company is growing quickly to at least 500 employees.

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Focus Group Check In

Compensation Cafe

If the methodologies are understood, funded and staffed well, we are producing statistical reports on correlation and causation. Focus groups, run well, can have amazing impact on the participants. But this informal situation may no longer suit practitioners who live in the presence of HR and employee analytics.

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Cafe Classic: Want a Promotion? Start Reading Your Annual Report

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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. 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.

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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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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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What Does Burnout Have to Do with Compensation?

Compensation Cafe

It's inevitable in this unsettling situation, no matter how well-balanced we make our personal work habits. But what does burnout have to do with the Compensation Department? Most of us believe burnout comes from overwork and we're ready to say that the Compensation Department has no influence on that situation.