Consulting

Variable Pay Program Design

Enhance the strategic value of your variable pay programs. Our consultants will partner with you to understand your business objectives and design long—and short-term incentive programs that reward employees fairly and motivate them to achieve stretch goals and deliver results.

Consulting Services

Variable pay lets you reward top performers and motivate your team to achieve their best. We’ll help you design a customized variable pay program that drives results.
We’ll can design a payout structure, as well as training and development plans to help employees achieve your targets. For example, we can train managers to effectively administer and communicate the program.
Variable Pay allows your organization to:

Drive Performance to New Heights

Linking pay directly to performance motivates and engages employees to achieve their best.

Stay Lean

Variable pay is extremely cost-effective, as it allows organizations to reward high performers without increasing base pay.

Turn on a Dime

Variable pay offers excellent flexibility. It can be tailored to specific roles, departments, teams or tasks – allowing you to prioritize the results your business depends on.

Hang Onto Your Winners

Variable pay naturally gives the highest rewards to your most valuable employees. Of course they’ll want to stick around.

Treat People with Fairness and Transparency

Variable pay is meritocratic in nature. We’ll help you structure your programs in a way that employees easily understand, leading to increased trust and engagement.

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Diversified and experienced team

Our individual consultants have decades of experience in a variety of industries. We have the knowledge and skills to help you in your specific organization, industry, and circumstances.

An extra set of hands

Comprehensive analysis is a big undertaking that all too often gets pushed to the bottom of the to-do list. This is a mistake, and everyone knows it, but sometimes your internal team just can’t get the time. Our consultants provide the extra resources and expertise to implement your compensation initiatives.

High-touch communication

Clear communication is a cornerstone of our process, and we’ll be with you every step of the way. Our team of consultants are available to provide guidance and support.

Third party neutrality

Bringing in outside help demonstrates your commitment to fairness, transparency, and impartiality. It also guarantees a level of discretion not always possible within an organization.

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