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

Compensation Cafe

A fruitful, but not typically strategic, exercise. Use the analytic exercise described above as a "learning experience." 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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What Will Pay Transparency Mean for You This Year?

Compensation Cafe

Since the Pay Ratio exercise helped us know who we're dealing with, we should be ready to develop a plan for influencing the executives' opinions. 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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How to Improve Your Compensation Communications

Compensation Cafe

Creating key messages is an important strategic exercise. Here's a message statement for an updated pay-for-performance program: "We're streamlining the Performance Management and Rewards process, just as we would any other business process." Proof points are the details of the compensation practices you are explaining.

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Check Out This Fitness Craze!

Compensation Cafe

How many of us actually consider "walking the talk" as a required daily exercise? We all have them on our performance management forms, but do we really understand them yet? We should be asking employees to focus on these select behaviors chosen because they will help differentiate our company's performance from our competitors.

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It's No Time for "Shelter in Place" When It Comes to Employee Communications

Compensation Cafe

This is a "blue sky" exercise during which you should envision new ideas, upgrades, updated techniques customized to particular situations, and so on, without any constraints like budget or executive approvals. Performance review. manager's briefings. manager's tools. performance management administration system.

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Toughing It Out

Compensation Cafe

Or do it as a team building exercise. Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. It's a good time to write up your own Compensation version, don't you think! Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Cafe Classic: Love to Hate Objectives?

Compensation Cafe

Same with objectives, the business "exercise" we all love to hate. Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. Lastly, he shut off the saw and pointed to the remaining third. You could hear a pin drop.

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