Be honest. Of all your managers, how many are actually good at making pay decisions? Are you hand-holding your managers with Salary Increase Guidelines, compa-ratio guidelines, and rigid rules about when and how salary adjustments can be made? In this tightly controlled approach, is it even possible for managers to learn to think about market … More Are your managers making good pay decisions?
I totally missed September, it flew by so fast! Here’s a re-hash of a popular post from last year. The last few months you’ve made progress on your KPI’s but now planning season is upon you. When the months start to end in “-ber” a few things start to happen for companies on a calendar year … More Seven Year-end Rewards Priorities
Robert K. Greenleaf, visionary and author of Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Greatness and Power, said: The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from the … More Meeting Needs: Connecting Total Rewards and Servant Leadership
Do you agree with this? “Pay people well. Pay people fairly. Then do everything in your power to get people to not think about pay.” –Alfie Kohn
I’ve been an expatriate, I’ve managed numerous expat assignments, and I’ve led one of Asia’s largest consulting practices for global mobility. So here are my suggested new year’s resolutions for expats, and for those who manage them. For Expats Find peace–if you took your assignment partly for the adventure, to avoid regretting not taking the … More Ten New Year’s Resolutions for Expatriates (and those who manage them)
I speak with hundreds of HR/C&B practitioners each year. What amazes me is how often our organisations rely on just a few rewards tools to attract and retain talent. Each profession has its own “tools of the trade”, and we in the rewards profession should be mindful of the many tools at our disposal. Yet, … More What’s in Your Rewards Toolkit? (updated)
SeptemBER already! The last few months you’ve made progress on your KPI’s but now planning season is upon you. When the months start to end in “-ber” a few things start to happen for companies on a calendar year fiscal year. They may not all apply, but I’ll bet most of these priorities apply to … More The month ends in ‘ber! Seven priorities for rewards leaders
Has your budget planning process begun for 2014? Each year, this complex process seems to start earlier and earlier. You’ve hardly had time to implement your 2012 KPI’s, let alone your 2013 KPIs, yet here we are already planning for 2014. As an HR, Rewards or Mobility leader, how are you going to approach this? … More It’s Q3… HR Planning is Just Ahead
I have now been freelancing for nearly five months, and I sometimes stop and think about where I am in my career and why I am doing what I am doing. Of course, it all boils down to money, right? We all need to work to live (some of us might feel we live to … More What keeps me going
With over forty responses from industry-leading companies based–or with major operations–in Asia, the Freelance Total Rewards Survey of Mobility Trends indicates the highest priority related to global mobility in 2013 is “alignment of global mobility with talent management”, with 69% of companies selecting this response (more than one response may be selected). Surprisingly, the second … More Results are In: What’s Next in Global Talent Mobility