HELP! Was I Just Arrested or Incentivized?

We all wish we were better at communicating. We create presentations (decks) and plan summaries (SPDs). We carefully choose our...

Incentives Without Teeth

Pay for performance continues to grow as a solution for motivating people in a world of flat compensation. The title...

Our Nearsighted Friends and Us

I have a brother with 20:15 vision. For those of you normal humans, this means he can see things clearly...

Navigating the Whitewater of LTI Design

Someone recently asked me to explain how I knew what direction to take plan design conversations. She had participated in...

You are Not Lebron James (or Facebook, or Google)

Lebron James has just become the youngest person in NBA history to score 25,000 points in his career. He is...

Delicious Amber Transparency

We talk a lot about pay transparency. It seems like half the time half of compensation professionals argue for more...

IN MEMORIUM: FAREWELL ANNUAL RAISE

An article was published last week with data from Aon Hewitt and Towers Watson that showed the annual pay raise is...

Speed, Velocity and Acceleration in Pay

I was reading a Facebook message a parent posted about their kid’s physics homework and it resonated as a reminder...

Silence Isn’t Golden

I hope your employees aren’t complaining about your compensation programs. If they are complaining out loud, then the problem has...