Past Compensation Events

Whether your company is made up of 50 or 500 employees, the way you pay your people affects the performance and growth of the business. In order to attract and retain the very best talent, it is essential you pay competitively while maintaining internal equity. Too often, small businesses treat compensation programs as something they will worry about once they get bigger. A company’s greatest expense and asset is its people. Join Kenexa’s Lena Bottos and Compensation Works’ Catherine Dovey, as they walk you through the top ten compensation mistakes made by small businesses.

In this session, Stephanie Thomas, founder of Thomas Econometrics, will discuss the new face of compensation regulation and the challenges employers are now facing with respect to internal pay equity and discrimination claims. She will review how to conduct a compensation review, from the planning stage through applying the analysis inferences to your business processes.

The P90X program is very intense and requires a level of personal commitment from the individual. It is not easy, but those who complete the program seem to overwhelmingly recommend it. There are 10 keys to the success of this system that can be applied to improving the quality of any performance-based compensation program. Our presenter, Dan Walter, will provide a unique and entertaining presentation that will get you on the path to creating your own high performance system. You will leave the presentation with things to think about and things to do.

The Host Plus assignment type has been an increasingly popular option for companies looking to diversify their international assignment package types.  However, it is often only catch-all used to describe packages that vary greatly from company to company. This webinar will defines what a “Host Plus” package is, what it includes and when it should be used.

How are job-specific competency models being used in performance management, and what are the benefits and challenges to using this type of approach? As consultants in the field, Chris Bergeron and Wendy Tandon will explore recent performance management trends, and the evolving application of competencies within performance management systems.

With all the compensation data sources available today, how do you evaluate among the options and make the most of your investment in time and money? In this session, Kenexa's Lena Bottos will share advice and tips for getting data that meets your needs and fits your budget.

In this webinar, compensation expert Mark Szypko will discuss the findings of the Kenexa High Performance Institute WorkTrends report covering the link between pay and performance.

Many organizations intent on delivering a "Pay for Performance" philosophy have developed salary increase matrices to assist in the deployment. In this presentation, Kenexa's compensation experts will discuss this important topic.

In this session, Jim Sillery from Buck Consultants will be sharing insights from the recently published iQuantic Global Long-Term Incentive Survey, which has been a mainstay in the technology and life sciences sectors and provides a wealth of information regarding the latest LTI-granting practices around the world.

Gordon Ritchie, Competency Solutions Director at Kenexa Compensation, will lead a discussion focusing on the importance of a competency modeling strategy that supports a pre-hire, performance management, skills inventory or development focused assessment.

As the economy rebounds, your top performers will be faced with new opportunities, and your top candidates will have many offers. Reliable data on pay levels is foundational to your ability to attract and retain talent.

Salary structures can be critical in managing pay throughout an organization. In this session, Kenexa’s compensation experts will provide an overview of best practices for developing externally competitive and internally equitable salary structures.

Job descriptions are the foundation of several key activities in compensation and HR, but many organizations treat the creation and maintenance of job descriptions as an ad hoc process, driven by an immediate need to recruit or retain.

What is performance management and to what extent does your organization currently uphold a pay for performance model? Is your current model effective?

A compensation strategy is a set of guiding principles that outlines an organization's approach to rewarding employees. Many organizations think they have a compensation strategy when really they have a set of vague assumptions that may or may not support the organization's business strategy.