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Performensation invites you to join Sam Reeve in a discussion on Global Pay for Performance. During this webcast you will learn the foundation systems and processes that are necessary to establish compensation and performance programs across the globe. The global expansion into markets of opportunity is a critical growth period for many firms and ensuring your talent is supported by a high performing compensation and performance program is vital. If you are already a part of a multinational company or are soon planning to reach beyond the borders, this webinar will provide you with essential knowledge that you can use in your global pay for performance planning process.

As a payroll manager, you are faced with many external and internal forces driving your decisions. Although your goal may be 100% direct deposit, you must navigate issues of compliance to reach that benchmark. By putting processes into place that proactively address said issues while streamlining your operations, you will make your life easier. At TFG Card Solutions, we closely follow issues of compliance surrounding direct deposit and pay cards and will share our collective knowledge in this webinar.

In this webinar we will cover hot topics in the payroll industry including direct deposit legislation around the country and the increasing need for pay cards. If your goal is 100% direct deposit and paperless payroll, you will need to know about electronic pay stubs for your employees.

Discussion will include best practices, requirements, and compliance surrounding pay stubs. Our final topic will answer the question, how does one go about choosing the best pay card provider? What should you look for in a vendor? With so many vendors out there, it can be difficult to find the one whose services fit the needs of your organization and those of your employees, the cardholder.
Since 2004, TFG Card Solutions has helped over 1,900 US employers of all sizes eliminate paper checks by providing a two-pronged approach:

1. Provide a first rate value offering that employers and employees can be excited about
2. Assist our extremely busy clientele with effective marketing tools to message the enhanced benefit offering and company initiative.

One of the most common reasons associated with assignment are personal and family issues. Companies should offer support along with a full understanding of whether the assignment is a lateral move or a promotion and what happens to the assignees career upon repatriation. This webinar will focus of the full life of assignment from start to finish. We will delve into the emotional and energy level of an assignee and their family members throughout the assignment cycle. Important factors on how to choose the right candidate for the assignment support them while on assignment and retain them when they return.

In order to make decisions that are more analytically driven, HR professionals need to know how to build models of organizational and individual behavior. In this webinar Dr. Levenson will review the principles and uses of models as decision making aids, even when there is not enough time or data for doing statistical analysis. We need analytics when issues are difficult to resolve; data is helpful but the data available to us is often incomplete. A specific application to compensation will be covered: understanding how the compensation of a role relates to motivation, employee capabilities, and retention. This webinar will give you a taste of how you can approach being more analytical in decision making around issues of compensation.

Organizations nationwide seek to continuously improve performance and motivation, while simultaneously reducing costs. This arduous task often becomes the responsibility of the Human Resources (HR). Without effective systems in place and data available, employee compensation can run counter to efficiency and performance objectives set by the organization. The implementation of market-based pay structures is increasingly necessary in order for organizations to remain competitive, administer compensation fairly and easily and allocate limited financial resources where they are most needed.

This presentation will review best-practice steps to compensation system design. During the presentation, attendees will be introduced to:

• Turnover in the rebounding economy
• Compensation economics 101
• Review steps for designing a market-based compensation system
• Recognition and sustaining high performance through a merit matrix

Federal court data shows that 90 percent of all state and federal class or collective actions filed in the United States are wage-and-hour claims. In 2010, the average settlement in the top 10 reported wage-and-hour class and collective actions was $34 million. The federal Fair Labor Standards Act applies to practically every employer in the United States and covers pay issues involving overtime (authorized and not), employer errors that affect an employee’s exempt status, record-keeping mandates, travel time, and much more. Enforcement of wage and hour law has become a top priority for the United States Department of Labor and state counterparts. If you violate the rules, the penalty can exceed 100 percent of the unpaid wages and you may have to pay the employee’s attorneys’ fees! Learn how to scrutinize your business policies now so that you will not be the next victim. What you learn here can help you avoid triggering a Department of Labor audit.

Now that the economy is slowly recovering for most businesses and has fully recovered for a handful of businesses where the upturns are exponential, company executives and HR managers are focused on retention of current top performers and employees with long-term potential. This presentation will 1) define top performers, 2) identify some of the risks of losing top performers, 3) offer reasons why top performers are looking for other job opportunities and the fatal compensation mistakes made by organizations, 4) identify and present effective retention strategies and 5) provide high level national compensation trends as it pertains to the retention of top performers. The retention strategies will include New Reward Plans, Merit Pay Plans, Variable Pay Plans, Incentives, Viral Pay Plan, Communication Strategies, Talent Management and Bonus Programs. Insights from compensation professionals, consultants, and company HR executives have been gathered for this retention of top performers' presentation.

Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) are performance metrics that drive important management decisions. There are many commonly used sales performance metrics, including total sales revenues, number of products sold, average order value, and year-to-date sales. Individually, these metrics yield significant insight, but management sometimes lacks deeper knowledge into how specific metrics impact overall business performance. By analyzing trends and relationships between individual KPIs, a more complete picture emerges than informs more effective strategic decision making.



In this course, Iconixx Software's Bruce Jackson and Carolyn Jenkins review best practices for utilizing KPIs for sales leadership, and present approaches for insuring the right metrics are presented in the right strategic context for optimal management insight.

Compensation management is one of the most critical and complex processes for a global company: Why is it critical? Not only because it represents the largest part of your company’s total costs, but more importantly because it is one of your company’s most effective tools to drive its human capital. Why is it complex?

Because local markets vary in terms of talent expectations, pay practices and local regulations, not to mention issues of language, currencies, and culture. To get local buy-in while retaining control and meeting business objectives requires a compensation management system that provides a consistent framework, but with flexibility to adapt to local needs.

This webcast will educate you on the challenges, pitfalls, and benefits of implementing an automated global platform for compensation management, whether it be for salary reviews, performance calibration, short term incentive plans, long term incentive plans, sales commissions, royalty sharing, channel compensation, or any combination of these. It will help prepare you to deliver value to the business by implementing a solution that uses compensation effectively to drive performance across the global enterprise, while streamlining processes and eliminating the manual efforts, high costs, and risks involved with using Excel or homegrown solutions to manage compensation in a complex environment. It will draw upon the real life experiences of global companies who have met these challenges, and help you to avoid costly missteps in planning, designing and implementing such a solution.

Is your executive compensation program competitive and effective? Is your company paying its top executives (your CEO and heads of HR, Operations, Finance, Sales, Marketing and R&D)competive bases salaries, benefits, perks, bonuses and equity incentives? Find out what other private companies are paying these executives and how some of the most successful companies are using their executive compensation programs as competitive tools.This session will provide highlights from Chief Executive Group's definitive CEO and Senior Executive Compensation in Private Companies Report www.ChiefExecutive.net/comp Find out what other private companies are paying their senior executives and how they are structuring these compensation programs to be able to recruit, retain and motivate the right people and the right behaviors.