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Making Pay Make Sense: Turning Compensation Into a Business Advantage (HRACC)
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In this highly interactive workshop, we’ll learn the holistic Total Rewards approach to attracting and retaining talent amid funding constraints and competitive labor markets.
The session will cover a shared framework, compensation fundamentals, and market pricing concepts, followed by interactive scenarios that challenge internal equity, external competitiveness, affordability, and employee experience.
We’ll break into groups to discuss real-world examples and discuss practical steps for applying Total Rewards strategies within your organization.
Key takeaways:
- an introduction to the total rewards pyramid framework
- how the levers work together when you can’t win on pay alone
- the difference between merit, market and equity pay adjustments
- what market pricing really means
- how to make sound, market-informed compensation decisions
CREDITS: This session has been submitted to HRCI and to SHRM for recertification credits.
OUR SPEAKER
Vlad Gogish
Mercer
Vlad is a partner in Mercer’s Career practice, based in Norwalk. He advises organizations on human capital questions that sit at the intersection of strategy and day-to-day execution – how jobs are graded, how people are paid, how performance is managed, and how talent systems evolve as business needs change.
His work spans rewards (executive and broad-based), talent strategy (skills, performance and development) and organization and HR transformation. He focuses on creating a clear line of sight between pay and responsibility.
Vlad holds an MBA in Finance and Economics from New York University Stern School of Business and a BS in Industrial Labor and Relations from Cornell University.