In Total Rewards, you'll learn...
- Concrete strategies for optimizing the five building blocks of a rewards program
- Compensation and benefits
- Work/life balance
- Performance and recognition and growth and development
- And much more!
Delivering the right mix of rewards to your employees can mean the difference between recruiting and hiring the best or simply settling for disappointing results. Maximizing a total rewards system in your organization that encompasses compensation, benefits, work/life balance, performance recognition, and employee growth and development is the key to success. Even if you believe you can’t compete with the “big guys” in what you can offer, this workshop will show you how you can. Because most often, it isn’t about the money that really attracts good employees to your organization. This two day workshop is full of solid strategies for optimizing your rewards program and molding it into one that impacts employee drive and productivity—and your bottom line—in a way in which everyone wins.
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Create the right mix of total rewards for your employees+
- How total rewards started … where we are today … what’s to come
- Why the old pay-plus-benefits package doesn’t work anymore
- Easy-to-access data that will provide clues to rewards your employees value
- A 7-step model for developing a successful total rewards strategy
- Why the best companies recognize the new “exchange relationship” between employers and employees
- 5 components of total rewards and the 3 that employees hold near and dear
- Senior management: How to sell them on total rewards—not just tell them
- Is your organization ready for total rewards? A 6-point assessment
Compensation: Pay for performance and drive business results+
- How traditional pay models can actually discourage performance
- The business case for considering adjustments to your pay model
- Analyzing the financial return on different types of pay
- Dealing with sticky equity issues
- Alternative structures for base pay that deserve your consideration
- The variable pay practices found in high-performing companies
- The challenge of designing compensation rewards for teams, sales professionals and other special groups
- The vital role the job-worth hierarchy plays in pay-for-performance
Benefits: Gear benefits to today’s “new employee”+
- How to tweak your existing benefits program—and become a more desirable employer
- Dealing with entitlement issues
- Balancing the cost of more or different benefits with the return
- Dodging unexpected issues surrounding benefits that can derail your rewards efforts
- What do income protection programs have to do with rewards?
- Leveraging pay-for-time-not-worked programs
Work/life balance: Create a work experience that binds employees to your organization+
- The compelling rationale for offering work/life programs
- How to make work experience the secret ingredient in your organization’s success
- Creative work/life benefit ideas you may not have thought of
- Things to think about when putting your work/life portfolio together
- Flexibility: Employees want it—are you giving it?
Performance and recognition: Use performance management and recognition to create a rewards culture+
- Your role in the performance management transformation process
- Aligning business and employee goals—the first and most essential step toward better performance
- Challenging common assumptions about the performance management process—and the right way to motivate employees
- Why companies can’t afford to downplay recognition in today’s competitive marketplace
- Active techniques for letting employees know you’ve noticed and appreciate their efforts
- Recognition: Moving from tried-and-true to breakthrough solutions
Growth and development: Support the growth of employees with development and career opportunities+
- Treating employees as partners: When they grow, you win
- Tough questions often asked about development opportunities—and the answers
- What are you doing to help employees build or improve skills? You could do more …
- 10 low-cost or no-cost things you can offer employees today to head off stagnation
- The truth about employee development … job satisfaction … and retention
- SPECIAL SECTION: Develop an action plan for continually evaluating, measuring and improving your total rewards program to make it a powerful engine for future performance and business success.
