What does it mean to offer employees a choice between cash and equity?
The agony of choice – Should employees choose their own adventure when it comes to equity?
Reflections from our pay transparency panel discussion
Reflections from our inaugural Pay Practitioners Panel on the topic of managing pay transparency
How do you create better problem solvers? Spoiler: It isn’t financial incentives
The challenges with financial incentives that relate to problem-solving roles, and how we can truly drive innovation
How to Address Workplace Retention: Strategies for Keeping Your Best Employees
A blog post on employee retention written entirely by ChatGPT
Why you probably don’t need to add in more levels
Requests for adding in levels are common but additional grades often create more problems than they solve.
Much ado about matching
A beginner's guide to salary survey job matching
Job Architecture – Three approaches to noodle on
Job architecture may seem intimidating. Here are three approaches that you can follow.
Anatomy of a salary structure – A glossary of terms
This is intended to help anyone new to compensation but also to clarify some terms that can be confusing or that have multiple interpretations that we should be aware of. If I am missing anything or need to clarify further, please let me know in the comments below. For considerations on salary structure approaches, take... Continue Reading →
Hybrid approaches to salary structures
"One does not simply build a salary structure" Following up on my previous posts on the differences in globally graded vs traditional salary structures and job-based approaches vs salary structures, I'd like to add one more piece to make it a trilogy. But hopefully a good trilogy like the Before trilogy or Lord of the... Continue Reading →
Three signs that your Sales Plans aren’t working effectively
2023 is likely to be a year of challenges for many companies with economic headwinds forcing leaders to regularly adjust their expectations. Most would agree, it's probably not the best time to be a salesperson, but this is also precisely the time that companies need their best sellers to stick around. Generally speaking, adjusting plans... Continue Reading →