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All of our free webinars are led by PayScale's Principal Consultant, Stacey Carroll, CCP, SPHR.

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Communicating About Compensation with Leaders and Employees

Few HR topics generate more controversy and emotion among employees than compensation. So, when it comes to communicating compensation to your employees, it's best to tread safely around this touchy subject. One of the most daunting challenges that HR and business leaders face when it comes to communicating compensation issues is that there are just so many ways to get it wrong. In this presentation, Stacey Carroll, CCP, SPHR, addresses those challenges and explains how to approach these conversations with clarity.

View Communicating About Compensation webinar

Aligning Your Compensation Strategy with Business Priorities

Does your compensation philosophy support your company's business objectives? Can you demonstrate to senior leaders how your current strategy is affecting the company's bottom line? As an HR leader, you play a key role in your organization's success. It's crucial that you work with your company's executive leaders to develop a compensation strategy that supports company business objectives. Learn the basics for aligning compensation strategy with business priorities.

View Compensation Strategy webinar

How to Have Tough Conversations with Employees

Could you use advice about how to handle difficult conversations in the best way possible? Learn the best practices for discussing tough issues with your staff. In this hour, you learn to: establish the basic framework for hosting difficult discussions; apply the framework using four example scripts that address common workplace issues; and avoid a conversation backfire, with a list of communication tips and tricks.

View Tough Conversations webinar

Retain and Engage Your Top Talent on a Nonprofit Budget

Rewarding top performers on a tight budget is one of the biggest challenges for nonprofits. But there are ways to do it that won't break the bank. In this one-hour presentation, led by HR expert Stacey Carroll, CCP, SPHR, you learn how to define high performance and identify top performers; articulate reasons to upper management for spending more to retain top performers; and create a low-cost retention plan that can weather drops in funding.

View Nonprofit Talent Retention webinar

How to Play a Key Role in Compensation Budgeting

HR leaders should play a key role in the compensation budgeting process, but many get left out of the loop. With the right tools, they can be a credible and respected voice throughout the process. HR expert Frank A. Cania, SPHR details how you can: build an effective compensation matrix using performance analysis and internal pay ranges; use your matrix to create a fair, defendable budget; and communicate with others on the budgeting team, so you'll get what you need.

View Compensation Budgeting webinar

Should Your Organization Pay for Performance?

Paying for performance seems like a simple idea, but for HR leaders who want to adopt this model, the process is far more complex. If poorly executed, a pay-for-performance program can demotivate employees and waste time and money on an ineffective plan. HR expert Stacey Carroll, CCP, SPHR, teaches you to: define pay for performance, and understand how it can build upon standard yearly raises; evaluate whether pay for performance is right for your company; follow a provided to-do list for rolling out a pay-for-performance plan.

View Pay for Performance webinar

How to Perform Compensation Analytics

You've benchmarked compensation for your workforce, now what? In this informative webinar, HR expert Stacey Carroll, CCP, SPHR, introduces you to a systematic, proactive approach to compensation analysis. She teaches you how to review the health of your current pay plan, optimize the results of your salary benchmarking to suit company objectives, and shine a light on your trouble spots, such as internal pay inequity and employee retention issues.

View Compensation Analytics webinar

Developing Your Compensation Philosophy & Policy

Employee pay affects two key components of your business: employee retention and profits. Learn to create a compensation philosophy that supports your organization's mission, vision and values. Participants learn to: create an effective compensation philosophy; build a compensation policy to support your compensation program; and ensure that your compensation philosophy and policy work hand-in-hand.

View Compensation Philosophy & Policy webinar

A Fresh Tool for Your HR Toolbox

Whether you're starting or revisiting your company's compensation program, be more accurate and efficient in getting results. Think about the tools you use - could they be more specific to your needs or better organize your many job titles and salary ranges?

Learn how to quickly and cost-effectively define your competitive set, benchmark your unique positions against the market, and address individual pay inequities in your current pay structure.

View HR Toolkit webinar

Executive Pay 101: What You Need to Know

Executive pay is tricky. It needs to be competitively priced but also carefully controlled. Do you understand the history of executive pay and the key components of an executive compensation package?

View Executive Pay webinar

A Guide to Laying the Foundation for Your Compensation Strategy

A compensation strategy should support an organization's mission, vision and values. In this webinar, you learn how to create an integrated strategy and we also discuss how to sell this plan to your organization's management and decision-makers.

View Compensation Strategy webinar

Managing Human Capital During an Economic Downturn

HR can play a leadership role in crafting an organization's response to economic conditions. This session discusses a range of approaches that can be implemented in areas that include recruitment, compensation administration and employee development. Approaches focus both on immediate cost-saving strategies as well as long-term, focused policy changes.

View Human Capital webinar

Mission Impossible: Managing and Mitigating Internal Pay Issues

Be a leader in your industry and keep your company out of legal hot water by establishing a transparent and equitable compensation structure. Learn how to create a plan that is fair and reflects the experience and performance of your employees. This webinar discusses how you can uncover your current inequities and either document reasons for them or change them.

View Managing and Mitigating Internal Pay Issues webinar

High Impact Performance Management

Top talent drives results in an organization, and they can make or break your company. You can build a performance management program that rewards top talent appropriately, without spending money. HR expert Stacey Carroll, CCP, SPHR, helps you develop a rewards and retention program, including how to: identify the characteristics of top performers; recruit and retain top talent with rewards beyond just raises and bonuses; deal with non-performers in order to maintain a company culture of high performance.

View Performance Management webinar

HR Planning: HR's Role in Strategic Workforce Planning for 2009 and Beyond

HR planning is a critical part of overall organizational strategic planning. This session provides HR leaders with a workforce planning how-to guide – starting with a review of the basics. Those basics then provide the foundation to discuss more advanced workforce planning activities. These approaches help increase HR's strategic value within the organization and your role as a company leader.

View Workforce Planning 2009 and Beyond webinar

How to Perform Compensation Benchmarking and
Set Salary Ranges

Setting salary ranges is tricky business - if it's not done right, it can deter your organization's ability to attract top talent or may cause you to overpay employees in the long term. So, how do you set up-to-date, competitive salary ranges? This webinar details an efficient, cost-effective and accurate way to establish salary ranges in your organization.

View Compensation Benchmarking webinar

HR Leadership in Difficult Times: Implementing RIFs, Reorganizations and Freezes

Tight economic times put pressure on company management and HR leaders to consider restructuring their business and let some non-essential employees go. How can these hard decisions be made strategically, keeping long-term growth in mind? Webinar participants learn ways to review staff, make decisions and communicate changes, as well as receive a "to-do" list with best practices for managing their organizations through RIFs, reorganizations and freezes.

View RIFs, Reorganizations and Freezes webinar

Communicating About Compensation with Leaders and Employees

Few HR topics generate more controversy and emotion among employees than compensation. So, when it comes to communicating compensation to your employees, it's best to tread safely around this touchy subject. One of the most daunting challenges that HR and business leaders face when it comes to communicating compensation issues is that there are just so many ways to get it wrong. In this presentation, Stacey Carroll, CCP, SPHR, addresses those challenges and explains how to approach these conversations with clarity.

View Communicating About Compensation webinar

Aligning Your Compensation Strategy with Business Priorities

Does your compensation philosophy support your company's business objectives? Can you demonstrate to senior leaders how your current strategy is affecting the company's bottom line? As an HR leader, you play a key role in your organization's success. It's crucial that you work with your company's executive leaders to develop a compensation strategy that supports company business objectives. Learn the basics for aligning compensation strategy with business priorities.

View Compensation Strategy webinar

How to Have Tough Conversations with Employees

Could you use advice about how to handle difficult conversations in the best way possible? Learn the best practices for discussing tough issues with your staff. In this hour, you learn to: establish the basic framework for hosting difficult discussions; apply the framework using four example scripts that address common workplace issues; and avoid a conversation backfire, with a list of communication tips and tricks.

View Tough Conversations webinar

Retain and Engage Your Top Talent on a Nonprofit Budget

Rewarding top performers on a tight budget is one of the biggest challenges for nonprofits. But there are ways to do it that won't break the bank. In this one-hour presentation, led by HR expert Stacey Carroll, CCP, SPHR, you learn how to define high performance and identify top performers; articulate reasons to upper management for spending more to retain top performers; and create a low-cost retention plan that can weather drops in funding.

View Nonprofit Talent Retention webinar

How to Play a Key Role in Compensation Budgeting

HR leaders should play a key role in the compensation budgeting process, but many get left out of the loop. With the right tools, they can be a credible and respected voice throughout the process. HR expert Frank A. Cania, SPHR details how you can: build an effective compensation matrix using performance analysis and internal pay ranges; use your matrix to create a fair, defendable budget; and communicate with others on the budgeting team, so you'll get what you need.

View Compensation Budgeting webinar

Should Your Organization Pay for Performance?

Paying for performance seems like a simple idea, but for HR leaders who want to adopt this model, the process is far more complex. If poorly executed, a pay-for-performance program can demotivate employees and waste time and money on an ineffective plan. HR expert Stacey Carroll, CCP, SPHR, teaches you to: define pay for performance, and understand how it can build upon standard yearly raises; evaluate whether pay for performance is right for your company; follow a provided to-do list for rolling out a pay-for-performance plan.

View Pay for Performance webinar

How to Perform Compensation Analytics

You've benchmarked compensation for your workforce, now what? In this informative webinar, HR expert Stacey Carroll, CCP, SPHR, introduces you to a systematic, proactive approach to compensation analysis. She teaches you how to review the health of your current pay plan, optimize the results of your salary benchmarking to suit company objectives, and shine a light on your trouble spots, such as internal pay inequity and employee retention issues.

View Compensation Analytics webinar

Developing Your Compensation Philosophy & Policy

Employee pay affects two key components of your business: employee retention and profits. Learn to create a compensation philosophy that supports your organization's mission, vision and values. Participants learn to: create an effective compensation philosophy; build a compensation policy to support your compensation program; and ensure that your compensation philosophy and policy work hand-in-hand.

View Compensation Philosophy & Policy webinar

A Fresh Tool for Your HR Toolbox

Whether you're starting or revisiting your company's compensation program, be more accurate and efficient in getting results. Think about the tools you use - could they be more specific to your needs or better organize your many job titles and salary ranges?

Learn how to quickly and cost-effectively define your competitive set, benchmark your unique positions against the market, and address individual pay inequities in your current pay structure.

View HR Toolkit webinar

Executive Pay 101: What You Need to Know

Executive pay is tricky. It needs to be competitively priced but also carefully controlled. Do you understand the history of executive pay and the key components of an executive compensation package?

View Executive Pay webinar

A Guide to Laying the Foundation for Your Compensation Strategy

A compensation strategy should support an organization's mission, vision and values. In this webinar, you learn how to create an integrated strategy and we also discuss how to sell this plan to your organization's management and decision-makers.

View Compensation Strategy webinar

Managing Human Capital During an Economic Downturn

HR can play a leadership role in crafting an organization's response to economic conditions. This session discusses a range of approaches that can be implemented in areas that include recruitment, compensation administration and employee development. Approaches focus both on immediate cost-saving strategies as well as long-term, focused policy changes.

View Human Capital webinar

Mission Impossible: Managing and Mitigating Internal Pay Issues

Be a leader in your industry and keep your company out of legal hot water by establishing a transparent and equitable compensation structure. Learn how to create a plan that is fair and reflects the experience and performance of your employees. This webinar discusses how you can uncover your current inequities and either document reasons for them or change them.

View Managing and Mitigating Internal Pay Issues webinar

High Impact Performance Management

Top talent drives results in an organization, and they can make or break your company. You can build a performance management program that rewards top talent appropriately, without spending money. HR expert Stacey Carroll, CCP, SPHR, helps you develop a rewards and retention program, including how to: identify the characteristics of top performers; recruit and retain top talent with rewards beyond just raises and bonuses; deal with non-performers in order to maintain a company culture of high performance.

View Performance Management webinar

HR Planning: HR's Role in Strategic Workforce Planning for 2009 and Beyond

HR planning is a critical part of overall organizational strategic planning. This session provides HR leaders with a workforce planning how-to guide – starting with a review of the basics. Those basics then provide the foundation to discuss more advanced workforce planning activities. These approaches help increase HR's strategic value within the organization and your role as a company leader.

View Workforce Planning 2009 and Beyond webinar

How to Perform Compensation Benchmarking and
Set Salary Ranges

Setting salary ranges is tricky business - if it's not done right, it can deter your organization's ability to attract top talent or may cause you to overpay employees in the long term. So, how do you set up-to-date, competitive salary ranges? This webinar details an efficient, cost-effective and accurate way to establish salary ranges in your organization.

View Compensation Benchmarking webinar

HR Leadership in Difficult Times: Implementing RIFs, Reorganizations and Freezes

Tight economic times put pressure on company management and HR leaders to consider restructuring their business and let some non-essential employees go. How can these hard decisions be made strategically, keeping long-term growth in mind? Webinar participants learn ways to review staff, make decisions and communicate changes, as well as receive a "to-do" list with best practices for managing their organizations through RIFs, reorganizations and freezes.

View RIFs, Reorganizations and Freezes webinar