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Complete Compensation Best Practices Resource    

Setting pay, communicating compensation, and motivating employees in a sluggish economy are just some of the complex and challenging issues you face today.     

Now, you can get fingertip access to the most complete compensation best practice resource available. What makes it so invaluable is that you can share it with your entire team for immediate and effective training.

CCM’s Complete Compensation Best Practices Resource conveniently combines three high-impact audio sessions into one complete powerful resource tool.  Each idea-packed session is guaranteed to help you and your managers build the skills they need to effectively manage and maximize your compensation budget.

And, if you're not happy with this program, for any reason, simply return it for a full refund. No questions asked.

As outlined below, these comprehensive 75-minute sessions offer best practice strategies and practical techniques you can use immediately. 

Here’s what you’ll learn:

Session 1:

Developing Salary Ranges: Your Practical Guide to Using Pay Grades Right

This comprehensive session will show you how to:

• Transform your company’s pay grades from a pesky limitation, into a useful tool
• Develop or fix your internal pay grades
• Determine when to propose change of your overall pay grades, and how to prepare a change proposal for executive management or the board of directors
• Manage communication of pay grades to the staff, and individual changes to employees, without having a negative impact on how employees perceive the organization values them
• Classify employees in different positions across the organizations, including sales people and highly compensated technical and specialized employees that are hard to fit on a pay grade system

But, that’s not all.  You’ll get best practice strategies to help you:

• Incorporate new positions into your current pay grade system
• Deal with market changes, in order to retain external competitiveness
• Effectively manage cost control, and ensure that over-focus on your pay grade system doesn’t cause your organization to inflate salaries unnecessarily
• Deal with performance-based increases, and cost of living increases
• Respond to changes in comparative skills and competencies across positions and bands, as employees complete training and learning objectives
• Ensure equity for legal purposes, and ensure the staff views the plan as equitable
• Simplify the administration of your plan

Featured Faculty:

Gregory A. Stoskopf, Director, Total Rewards/Human Capital Practice, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Session 2:

Salary Discussions: Effective Compensation Communication

With this invaluable session, you’ll learn how to:

• Communicate more effectively with your employees and coach other supervisors on compensation communications
• Properly communicate your overall compensation structure changes
• Announce bonus and other incentive plans
• Talk about compensation in ways that employees view it as equitable
• Help your employees understand what they can do to gain higher pay
• Effectively discuss how compensation is linked to performance
• Help employees feel valued, at every compensation level

Plus, we’ll help you tackle some of the tough one-on-one employee discussions, including tips on:

• Ways to respond when a poor-performing employee requests additional pay
• How to get he most out of announcing a pay-raise to an employee
• What you can say when you unable to bring an employee’s pay up to market rate
• How to get employees to come to you with their compensation-related complaints
• How to discuss factors that impact compensation decisions

Featured Faculty:

Rob Lewis, Principal, Hewitt Associates

Roxanne B. Gilbertsen, Senior Consultant, Hewitt Associates

Session 3:

Pay for Performance Strategies that Work in Today’s Economy

In this timely session, you’ll discover:

• How to properly manage employee rewards and pay to increase productivity and secure market dominance even in a sluggish economy
• What pay for performance really mean in today’s marketplace
• What pitfalls to watch out for in your pay for performance plan
• The best methods for crafting a well-executed pay for performance plan
• Which incentives really work; Merits, Spot Awards, Bonuses, or Long-term Incentives
• How to utilize metrics to gauge the effectiveness of your program
• Incentives leading organizations are using today
• How to keep top performers motivated through corporate restructurings, layoffs and downsizing

Featured Faculty:

Patricia K. Zingheim, Partner, Schuster-Zingheim and Associates, Inc.

Jay. R. Schuster, Partner, Schuster-Zingheim and Associates, Inc.

LIMITED TIME ONLY:  You’ll get CCM’s Complete Compensation Best Practices Resource for just $577, that’s over 25% off the regular price of $807.

And, with your order of the Complete Compensation Best Practices Resource, you’ll also receive a complimentary subscription to CCM’s Industry eNews, The Human Resource.  Each week you’ll keep up-to-date on the most current regulatory trends, news and issues facing HR and compensation today! 

That’s both the Complete Compensation Best Practices Resource and The Human Resource for just $577, you save $230.

Remember, if you're not happy with this training resource, for any reason, simply return it for a full refund. No questions asked.

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE:

We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this box set that we'll refund every penny if you're not completely satisfied. No questions asked! It's 100% risk-free!

Pricing:

Your set includes the complete live audio conference presentation for both programs, the audience Q&A session, and presentation materials. 

APPROVED FOR RECERTIFICATION CREDIT:

Each CCM event presents a variety of information and is presented for each organization to develop its own approach and methodology.