Strategic Pay Academy 2012
Cost Effective Training in key areas of Pay, Performance Management, Performance Improvement and Organisational Change
Auckland 13-17 February
Wellington 19-23 March
Christchurch 28 May - 1 June
Courses for Performance & Reward Management
Effective Remuneration Strategy and Remuneration Management
This course is designed to provide participants with a very good understanding of the fundamentals of remuneration strategy and management, and the mechanisms for linking performance to pay.
This course is aimed (mainly) at human resource professionals who have some generalist HR knowledge but who wish to seriously lift their understanding of pay strategy and management. Personnel for other professions, such as Payroll staff and some finance department staff with remuneration content in their work portfolios would also find this course of benefit.
Participants who have completed this course will be confident to participate within their own organisation’s processes to:
+ Build an employment reward strategy, from scratch if necessary
+ Communicate the key principles of an employment reward strategy to employees and managers alike
+ Manage the processes inherent in an effective employment reward system
+ Link performance outcomes to pay effectively
This course begins with the basics and takes participants on a journey through to the level of a confident practitioner in the employment reward discipline.
Cost: $300 +gst per person
Christchurch: Monday 28 May, 9am-12pm
Christchurch: Tuesday 29 May, 1pm-4pm
Building Employee Engagement Through Reward
The workshop will combine research insights, consultant case studies and practical exercises to provide a structured model for aligning rewards strategy with business needs and the drivers of employee engagement. This is aimed at senior HR and OD executives accountable for driving change in the business.
The workshop will focus on;
+ Understanding why employees leave their jobs
+ The drivers of employee engagement
+ The importance of equity
+ The difference between rewards and numeration
+ How to build an engaging reward programme
Cost: $300 +gst per person
Christchurch: Tuesday 29 May, 9am-12pm
Incentivising Performance
(including use of incentive pay such as Short Term Incentives - STI)
This course is designed to provide participants with a very good understanding of the fundamentals of incentive pay, and the mechanisms for linking performance to pay.
Incentive pay is much talked about but very poorly understood. It often attracts very unfavourable comments. It is however, a solid foundation on which to build clear and unambiguous alignment of results and reward. It is easy to get wrong, it is not hard to get right, like a lot of things participants need to understand and follow the rules.
This workshop takes participants through the pitfalls, explains how to develop a unique and robust framework and provides material for participants to develop and manage their own incentive scheme.
Cost: $300 +gst per person
Christchurch: Friday 1 June, 9am-12pm
Beyond Appraisals
This course is designed to assist participants in seeing beyond the once-a-year appraisal meeting on a longer and more comprehensive personal journey from the once a year appraisal to a wider year round performance management process. It will look at what should be measured, why and how as well as building better understanding of processes, outcomes and consequences.
The course is aimed at CEOs, HR and Corporate Services managers who have responsibility for strategic HR decisions and devising effective performance systems.
Participants who have completed this course will be confident within their own organisations to:
+ Align their scheme with business objectives
+ Apply a staged approach to system design
+ Assess the value of on-line tools including 360 feedback
+ Measure expected results and expected behaviours
+ Reward what matters, the performance pay linkage
+ Assess the effectiveness of their existing performance system
Cost: $300 +gst per person
Christchurch: Thursday 31 May, 9am-12pm
Job Mapping
Today’s organisations are seeking greater added value from HR systems and processes. The silos of conventional job evaluation and job matching are proving increasingly ineffective in dealing with the wider challenges confronting modern organisations. Job mapping provides a nimble and practical analytical matching tool for organisations wishing to size roles and develop pay bands without the huge investment of time and resources of traditional job evaluation or benchmarking.
This course is aimed at HR and OD specialists seeking to leverage greater value out of their HR systems and processes.
This workshop offers an introduction to job mapping, including:
+ Where job mapping fits in the context of job evaluation and job matching
+ How job mapping aligns with career perspectives
+ Integrating job mapping with reward strategy, market pricing, job design
+ How to implement job mapping, including use of band structures
+ Hands-on practical exercises to build and consolidate understanding
Participants who have completed this course will have a very different perspective on job evaluation and will understand why job mapping is rapidly gaining ground in Europe, North America and Asia as the cornerstone of remuneration management.
Cost: $300 +gst per person
Christchurch: Thursday 31 May, 1pm-4pm
Courses related to PLUS+ model for Driving Organisation Performance
Future Proof Strategic Planning
To survive any organisation needs good short term planning and a high degree of operational flexibility. An organisation’s strategic planning fails for one of the following reasons:
+ They don’t do it. Professing that the pace of change is so fast in their respective industry that strategic planning is meaningless or that 9 months is long term.
+ They see the future as linear that is they view the pace of change as constant, whereas the future is exponential, that is the pace of change is accelerating.
+ They see the future as singular. They identify a single view of the future business environment and plan for that. For example an organisation may believe that in twenty years time geopolitics will be dominated by the centre right. Whilst this is possible, and may even be probable it is also possible that geopolitics may be dominated by the centre left, the extreme left, the extreme, right, or the Greens.
+ They fail to confront unpleasant futures. Many organisations fail to plan strategically for catastrophe or any prolonged negative impact on the business environment, planning only how their organisation will progress in positive scenarios.
+ They engage expensive external parties to prepare their business strategy, resulting in a usually weighty report which none of the leadership team have any ownership of.
+ They fail to connect the strategic plan to actions which will need to occur in annual plans.
The Future proof strategic planning workshop will give participants a brief insight into each of the steps in future proof strategic planning: Current State Analysis, Fore sighting, Scenario Learning, Multi Future State Envisioning, Intermediate Optimisation, and Action Planning all linked by the 8 Facets of Business. Learn how to confront the future and build readiness and resilience into your annual business plan.
Ideal for CEOs, senior and strategic managers.
Cost: $300 +gst per person
Christchurch: Monday 28 May, 1pm-4pm
Organisational Modelling
An organisation model is:
+ A graphical representation of the functions or teams which make up an organisation;
+ A statement of purpose for each of those functions; and
+ A set of rules to guide the behaviours of those functions when interacting with each other internally and with the external stakeholders
An organisation model is not the same as an organisation chart, which will show individual roles and formal reporting lines.
A customer focused organisation model will improve the performance of your management team and your business, whilst also resolving internal conflict. Learn how organisation modelling can work for you from the course leader who has applied this tool in a large number of organisations including, Christchurch City Council, Housing New Zealand Corporation, St John and EQC.
Course participants will take part in a case study based on a recent assignment.
Cost: $800 +gst per person
Christchurch: Wednesday 30 May, 9am-4:30pm, lunch provided
Accountability Mapping
An Accountability is the Responsibility, Ownership and Authority for Outcomes, Outputs, and Results which the organisation must achieve in order to be successful.
Nothing happens in an organisation unless a person does it. In Accountability Mapping we identify the results, the key outputs that have to be achieved for the organisation to meet its mission and then we identify which piece of the business ultimately down to the individual level should take authority, ownership and responsibility for achieving that result. In accountability mapping we also explore how the pieces of the business interact to help each other achieve that result.
In the workshop we will introduce you to what is Accountability Mapping, why use Accountability Mapping, and building an Accountability List. Accountability understanding is the precursor to a robust organisation structure and leads to coherent Position Descriptions and good performance management design.
Cost: $300 +gst per person
Christchurch: Friday 1 June, 1pm-5pm
Strategic Pay Workshops
Building client capability
Strategic Pay supports the development of professional remuneration skills through a range of training opportunities. Our suite of educational programmes are designed to help you build your organisation’s management capability and understanding in reward and performance management.
Strategic Pay has two streams of courses available – Valuing Performance: for workshops relating to our core business of remuneration strategy, job sizing, understanding salary surveys; and Driving Performance: for workshops aimed at CEOs / Senior Managers looking to drive company performance through organisation modelling and defining accountabilities.
Driving Performance:
Organisation Design
Success for any organisation comes about as the result of the efforts and outputs of all individuals within that organisation. Operational Organisation Structure design is the process by which an organisation gets the RIGHT NUMBER of the RIGHT PEOPLE with the RIGHT SKILLS in the RIGHT JOBS focusing on the RIGHT RESULTS (acccountabilities) in the RIGHT WAY (behaviours) to ensure organisational SUCCESS.
Duration: Two Days
Cost: $1850 + GST
Future Proof Strategic Planning
This course will introduce participants to future proof strategic planning giving them an overview of a process that works covering; Fore sighting, scenario learning, and strategy optimisation. The course also looks at why strategic planning fails and linking strategic plans with annual plans. The case will use examples based on actual clients and is designed for CEO’s Boards and anyone responsible for setting the strategic direction of their organisation, as well as anyone responsible for facilitating that process.
Duration: Half Day
Cost: $450 + GST
Accountability Mapping
Accountability Mapping will help you enhance the performance of your executive team, avoid conflicts and improve team work. Clients who have used this technique all report increased performance and profitability. Learn how to do it at this new one day professional development course.
Duration: One Day
Cost: $950 + GST
Organisation Modelling
Learn how Organisational Modelling will help you get better performance from your management team and resolve some of the classic conflict within your organisation.
Duration: One Day
Cost: $950 + GST
Valuing Performance:
Remuneration Workshop for Company Directors
This workshop is designed to give Company directors and Remuneration committee members practical insights into managing executive remuneration more effectively.
Duration: One Day
Cost: $1250 + GST
Building a Reward Strategy and Remuneration Framework
This one day workshop offers a practical, interactive and hands-on session to help HR professionals and people managers at all levels gain a strong understanding of remuneration practices and concepts.
Duration: One Day
Cost: $950 + GST
Designing Effective Incentive Schemes
Designed for HR and finance professionals, sales managers and operational managers, this one day workshop offers a practical and hands-on approach to effective incentive design...more>>
Duration: One Day
Cost: $950 + GST
Job Description Workshop
Job descriptions are a foundation for recruitment, job sizing and performance management. This practical-hands-on workshop covers how to write a job description that aligns with these HR needs.
Duration: Half Day
Cost: $550 + GST
Job Evaluation Training
Job Evaluation Workshop: SP10®
This workshop offers you an opportunity to learn or further develop your understanding of the Strategic Pay 10 Factor Job Evaluation methodology.
Duration: Two Days
Cost: $1850 + GST
$1650 + GST second participant same org
Refresher Course: SP10® Factor System
This refresher course is ideal for those who have previously attended a 10 Factor Job Evaluation Workshop, two or more years earlier.
Duration: One Day
Cost: $950 + GST
$850 + GST second participant same org
Job Evaluation Workshop: SP5® Factor System
This workshop provides a thorough grounding in evaluating jobs using the 5 Factor System which is designed to efficiently measure the similarities between jobs in order to determine their relativities in organisations.
Duration: One Day
Cost: $750 + GST
JobWise Job Mapping Workshop
This workshop offers an introduction to job mapping, evaluating jobs from a broad band perspective focussed on career pathways (job families).
Duration: Half Day
Cost: $400 + GST
Beyond Appraisals
This workshop will help you improve your organisation’s performance appraisal/ management systems so that they better support your organisation’s HR strategy and business goals.
Duration: One Day
Cost: $950 + GST
Making the Most of Salary Surveys
This workshop will help you understand the range of salary surveys in the wider market, how they are constructed, and how to apply salary survey information to your remuneration framework.
Duration: Half Day
Cost: $195 + GST
RemWise® Workshop
This workshop offers an introduction to RemWise® and its application to all aspects of salary management.
Duration: Half Day
Cost: $450 + GST
Customised In-house Training
We also provide customised inhouse training in remuneration systems and practices. Popular options include:
Other specialised courses
Training dates for the following courses are by arrangement. Please
contact us for details.
Strategic Pay's
experienced consultants are available for in house or for mentoring programmes, designed to facilitate specific remuneration skill development. Mentoring is available to generalist HR practitioners and people moving into specialist remuneration roles.