Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

If you can get them thinking about skill gaps, you can help them move on to identifying where they are experiencing them and where they are likely to come from in the future -- technology shifts or business revamping. Interview key line managers and read business planning documents that you borrow from executives.

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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. As diverse as organizations are (and as diverse as their PM solutions should be) it is helpful to anchor our thinking within a basic framework.

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15Five

JUNE 25, 2019

Next comes the strategy. Countless teams planned and executed their small part, measuring progress along the way. This post includes excerpts from our latest eBook: 15Five’s Comprehensive OKR Guide: How To Launch, Track, and Achieve Your Objectives & Key Results. Objectives translate strategy into organizational priorities.

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Cornerstone On Demand

MARCH 11, 2015

But their success — and HR's ability to recruit, engage and retain them — depends on HR pros who are strategic decision-makers, armed with the proper tools to let them excel at their jobs. Modern HR professionals manage much more than payroll and benefits. That’s a direct impact on the business.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2020

The thing is, CEOs still have misgivings about HR's ability to design and execute a strategic talent strategy, according to McKinsey's research. The recent findings target "senior HR individuals who counsel managers on talent issues." Also, even if we introduce a new, strategic solution, that program needs to be implemented.

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15Five

JUNE 25, 2019

Next comes the strategy. Countless teams planned and executed their small part, measuring progress along the way. This post includes excerpts from our latest eBook: 15Five’s Comprehensive OKR Guide: How To Launch, Track, and Achieve Your Objectives & Key Results. Objectives translate strategy into organizational priorities.

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SwipeClock

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Download our new eBook: Remote Corporate Culture. In this eBook, you’ll learn how to improve your corporate culture to help all employees succeed–regardless of where they are working. We bank online, pay at the pump, make donations, and schedule appointments via text or mobile apps. 2: Self-service is empowering.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2020

Looking for a practical example of a compensation communications strategy? Wondering what a message platform is? My last article talked about the definition and application of a message platform. A message platform is the outcome of a strategic exercise that you work on with a select group of HR and executives.

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WorkHuman

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Laura Sejen, managing director, Rewards, at Willis Towers Watson explains that many companies, “are starting to question how those budgets are spent and whether their conventional approaches to salary planning are delivering a good return on that 3% investment.”. What does your plan look like for 2017? 3 in 10 U.S.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 30, 2019

If your compensation system works on a calendar year, you're going to be asked to start a compensation communication plan in September. If you are going to make sure your compensation and performance management programs are procedurally fair , you've got research, analysis and strategy development to complete.

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Hppy

APRIL 6, 2018

There are traditional duties that need to be performed up by this group such as recruitment, compensation, benefits, payroll, pension management (for those employees fortunate enough to work for an organization still offering them) training and performance management. These functions are administrative in nature.

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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 How is a Compensation message platform different? The definition and application of a message platform is borrowed from Marketing methodology. It happened again this month.)

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Hppy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Also read: Key metrics that an employee management system should track. Hiring plan – organizational structure, roles, seniority, priorities. Company strategy/pitching deck/annual objectives – to understand how HR is going to contribute and bring value to it. Looking for HR online tools or HRIS.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2019

How is this turn of events possible when such a high percentage of companies have incorporated analytical reports when purchasing transactional HR software for talent management, benefits, compensation and Total Rewards? McKinsey gives a great overview in, "Digital strategy: The four fights you have to win." For Pete's sake.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 25, 2020

Compensation departments often run on the "no news is good news" communications strategy, choosing to take the upper hand in their relationship with employees. One of the reasons is the power of today's real-time communications technology. Because employees will see that their manager can be trusted to have insight she/he will share.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Your employer doesn't have to be wired as well as Google in order to have an effective communications strategy, and printed materials may still have an important, but targeted, role to play. Say you are introducing a new equity plan, with information that the employee should not only read but keep.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The online Business Dictionary defines business strategy as: -A method or plan chosen to bring about a desired future, such as achievement of a goal or solution to a problem. The art and science of planning and marshaling resources for their most efficient and effective use. So, where's the disconnect?

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The survey findings indicate that these technology platforms are most commonly used to communicate Total Rewards: Intranets (72%). Mobile apps (22%). Leaders" are twice as likely to use digital technology: 56% of "leading" companies compared to 25% of "lagging" companies. HR portals (54%). Social media (36%). Just sayin'.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

They include performance management, reward strategy, career development, compensation communications, among many other key influencers of employee engagement. So if you want to understand WHY stuff is going on, be sure to include focus groups in your strategy. Our Compensation responsibilities don't stop at numbers.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Imagine how much you could learn and how much these insights could help everyone prepare for planned HR activities if you held a meeting, invited the right people (including a line advisor, maybe), and free-formed the teams' ideas on today's employees' and managers' thoughts, perceptions, attitudes and challenges. Masters Swimming.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 30, 2020

They don't realize that there are ways to plan for outcomes, and they surely don't understand the limits they are placing on business results. The strategy should have all the hallmarks of a communication strategy. Instead of presenting design and communications plans separately, integrate the two. But you know better.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

BTW, most practitioners do see this behavior as a problem, in that these managers are both rewarding negligent performers and chintzing out on the stars, therefore missing the goals of managing performance by a mile. Here are a few perspectives to consider. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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HR Bartender

MAY 17, 2015

His background includes senior management roles with Stanford University, Agilent Technologies and ICANN. When Bill Sullivan, the longtime CEO of Agilent, took his role he said the job of a leader is to set strategy , build organizational capability and capacity, and execute on results. Focus, attention and relaxation.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 10, 2021

It was an example of how change will happen going forward because of, among other things, the speed of technological evolution, especially Artificial Intelligence. We've imagined and planned for "normal" but it will challenge us when it inevitably turns out to be at least somewhat unpredictable. Don't let this opportunity go.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 17, 2020

An early planning step involves defining what you want your audience to "KNOW, DO AND FEEL" as a result of the communications. Your "FEEL" goal in your "KNOW, DO AND FEEL" planning could be to design the communications to build a belief that the lack of bonus is suitable to the business situation.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Intuitively, we know that good objectives are an effective business tool, but then we remind ourselves that we been sliding by just fine by making the least amount of effort. Strategy cascade meetings followed by objective setting is your best, most cost-effective opportunity for developing your employees' business literacy. .

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 2, 2021

While it is true that things can go horribly wrong with compensation communications, if you put thought (and emotion) into your planning, the likelihood of history-making disasters can be very low. Why not apply the microtargeting approach to compensation communications, especially with managers? It's too bad, really.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Give yourself the assignment of listening to your managers during the cycle so you can adjust your communications. After the announcement communications, check to see if your plans include everything managers need either by asking around informally or better yet, sending out a short questionnaire. How can you do this easily?

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2018

It's time to cement your project plans for the coming year, so I thought I'd pass along some items to consider before you submit for approval. I don't need to tell you how much your business relies on technology, and that the appetite for tech solutions in most industries is insatiable. Talk about cognitive dissonance.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2019

It's a process (sometimes called change management) of building communities where many people work together to achieve the outcomes that the community is planning for. That linking business strategy with departmental goals helps make the employees' own objectives make sense. Here's another solution to add to the earlier list.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 19, 2018

This scenario places compensation at the heart of business strategy development -- as well as your company's financial performance -- for the upcoming decade, at the very least. We in HR are finally, clearly, part of the solution. Given those business priorities, what are the talent needs of the immediate future going to be?

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Insights that would be valuable to your compensation strategy development. For example, since the seventies, organizations have been downsized, resized, reorganized and "technologized." Is there a clear alignment between talent strategy and pay in each of the organizational structures that you identify?

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 25, 2018

The Disney team is trying to rectify a lack of communication strategy and overcome the turf wars between internal groups. Here are a few takeaways that should be useful in your own annual compensation communication planning: Disney gave themselves a framework to start with and plan from.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

It's easy to see how much richer your communication and implementation plans would be as a result of this conversation. Recognize that your compensation and performance management software annoys a small or large subset of your employees and managers. You know you're good, but are you a great communicator?

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

What has this got to do with compensation and strategy? We can show our company's leadership that compensation does influence engagement by raising questions that enable and equip employees to perform. The more attached employees are to the company, the more frustrated they'll become when faced with these problems.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 22, 2019

In its section on the Chaos Theory , Wikipedia tells us, "Chaotic systems are predictable for a while and then appear to become random." 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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