Sales compensation is an uncomfortable area for many compensation professionals. Many of us have never been professional sales people. Many...
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A Chrome Panda Predicts Demise of Stock Options
May 11,2016May 11, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Bonus, Compensation Philosophy, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Long Term Incentives, Other Rewards, Performance Units, Recognition, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock OptionsTags Benefits & Perquisites, compensation philosophy, dropbox, equity compensation, Incentives/Bonuses, ownership, panda, perks, recognition, RSUs, Social Media & Rewards, stock options, stock/equity compensation, total rewards
On May 7, 2016, it was reported that a giant chrome panda predicted the imminent crippling of stock options in...
You are Not Lebron James (or Facebook, or Google)
Nov 04,2015November 4, 2015
By adminIn Articles, Base Pay / Salary, Bonus, Communication, Compensation Philosophy, Compensation Planning, Culture, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Other Rewards, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Recognition, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock OptionsTags Base Salaries, communication, compensation philosophy, compensation planning, culture, executive compensation, Incentives/Bonuses, motivation, pay for performance, peer groups, Performance Management, recognition, stock/equity compensation, strategy, total rewards
Lebron James has just become the youngest person in NBA history to score 25,000 points in his career. He is...
Delicious Amber Transparency
Oct 26,2015October 26, 2015
By adminIn Articles, Base Pay / Salary, Bonus, Communication, Compensation Philosophy, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Other Rewards, Recognition, Short-Term Incentives - STITags Base Salaries, Benefits & Perquisites, compensation communication, compensation philosophy, executive compensation, Incentives/Bonuses, recognition, total rewards
We talk a lot about pay transparency. It seems like half the time half of compensation professionals argue for more...
Silence Isn’t Golden
Jun 03,2015June 3, 2015
By adminIn Articles, Base Pay / Salary, Bonus, Communication, Compensation Philosophy, Compensation Plan Design, Compensation Planning, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Other Rewards, Performance Units, Recognition, Restricted Stock, RSU, Sales Compensation, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock OptionsTags base pay, base salary, Bonus, bonuses, communication, compensation communication, compensation philosophy, compensation planning, equity compensation, incentive compensation, incentive pay, incentives, long term incentives, recognition, sales compensation, Short-Term Incentives - STI, stock compensation, total rewards
I hope your employees aren’t complaining about your compensation programs. If they are complaining out loud, then the problem has...
What Do You Do?
Jan 19,2015January 19, 2015
The holiday season is now in the rear-view mirror and everyone reading this post has recently had to answer some...
I Was Wrong. Pay for Performance Doesn’t Work!
Nov 11,2014November 11, 2014
You may want to disregard nearly everything I’ve ever posted here. As it turns out, I may not know anything...
New Book on Communicating Compensation Plans!
Sep 12,2014September 12, 2014
By adminIn Articles, Bonus, Books and Publications, Career Advancement, Communication, Compensation Plan Design, Compensation Planning, Culture, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, International, Long Term Incentives, Other Rewards, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Private Companies, Recognition, Restricted Stock, RSU, Sales Compensation, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Start-up Pay, Stock Options
Everything You Do in Compensation is Communication: 3/8 of the Compensation Cafe Publishes a Book! …. $10 discount through September...
First Do No Harm
Sep 04,2014September 4, 2014
Primum non nocere. The Hippocratic Oath is one of the foundational elements of any doctor’s career. As it says on Wikipedia: “Another...
Tipping Points – 5 for Pay Professionals
Aug 25,2014August 25, 2014
By adminIn Articles, Career Advancement, Compensation Philosophy, Compensation Plan Design, Compensation Planning, Culture, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Recognition, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock Options
“The moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.1” This is how Malcolm Gladwell describes the tipping point. It...