Ideation: a compensation planning blog
Why Compensation Professionals Still Love Excel
Why Compensation Professionals Still Love Excel by David Creelman It’s popular and easy to criticize Excel. Spreadsheets are prone to human errors, labor intensive, and difficult to use...
How to Deal with Wage Inflation in an Unstable Environment
How to deal with wage inflation in an unstable environment By David Creelman Many organizations are finding it challenging to hire the workers they need in today’s inflationary economy. This puts...
Equity or Fairness?
This is an article in an ongoing series by David Creelman about redesigning compensation planning to acquire and retain top performers. You can catch up on our previous discussions by clicking...
How Compensation Managers Should Approach Automation
This is an article in an ongoing series by David Creelman about redesigning compensation planning to acquire and retain top performers. This week's article is about compensation automation. You can...
A Risk Management View of Incentive Plans
This is the sixth article in an ongoing series by David Creelman about redesigning compensation planning to acquire and retain top performers. This week's article is about risk management in...
Does Your Salary Adjustment Letter Look Like a Lawyer Wrote It?
This is the fifth article in an ongoing series by David Creelman about redesigning compensation planning to acquire and retain top performers. This week's article is about salary adjustment letters....
The Truth About Paying Remote Workers
This is the fourth article in an ongoing series by David Creelman about redesigning compensation planning to acquire and retain top performers. This week's article is about paying remote workers. To...
How Inflation Can Make Compensation Planning Easier
This is the third article in an ongoing series by David Creelman about redesigning compensation planning to acquire and retain top performers. This week's article is about inflation and compensation...
Redesigning Compensation For Top Performers
This is the second article in an ongoing series by David Creelman about redesigning compensation planning to acquire and retain top performers. To catch up on our discussion, you can read the first...
You can’t win the War for Talent with Market Data
Compensation systems are designed to keep average compensation under control. They are designed to attract and retain average people by paying close to market average compensation. They do an...
