PayScale HR Webinar Schedule

Most of our free webinars are approved for 1.0 credits towards HRCI re-certification and 1.5 credits towards CHRP re-certification. After the live webinar, there is a short quiz for you to complete. If you attend the full session and you pass the quiz, you will be sent an email within 72 hours that includes your recertification information. It's that easy.

PayScale Product & Methodology Demos

Every Wednesday, Product Experts Guide You Through PayScale Insight

A Fresh Tool for Your HR Toolkit
Learn how PayScale Insight can help you create competitive pay ranges and streamline compensation planning.

Register for Wed, Feb 10th

Accurate Compensation Data: How to Get What You Need
Learn and ask questions about PayScale's methodology from our director of quantitative analysis, Al Lee, Ph.D.

Register for Wed, Mar 3rd

A Fresh Tool for Your HR Toolkit

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST

Think about the data tools you use - could they be more specific to your organization's needs? Is there room to improve when it comes to matching your exact positions to current market rates?

Get an in-depth look at PayScale Insight, and learn how it can tailor salary data for more accurate results, speed up benchmarking projects, and allow you to easily spot pay inequities at your organization.

PayScale product specialist, Karaka Jolma, teaches you how to quickly define your competitive set, benchmark your unique positions against the market and address individual pay inequities in your current pay structure. All with one single tool: PayScale Insight.

This webinar gives you the chance to:

Learn how Insight can simplify your work or the work of your HR staff, resulting in more accurate budget projections, more competitive and equitable pay ranges, and saved time in all compensation planning projects.
See the product in action, using examples from audience members, to learn how Insight quickly does the legwork for projects like setting up formal comp plans, compensation budgeting, or ensuring pay equity throughout your organization.
Ask questions that will help you better see how Insight can work for your company.

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Mission Impossible: Managing and Mitigating Internal Pay Issues
Part 3 of 3 in a Series

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:00 AM PST, 1:00 PM EST

Internal pay inequity can equal trouble. If an employee believes they are being discriminated against you have a battle ahead that could drain your coffers and harm your reputation.

Avoid complaints from employees about their pay and keep your company and executives out of court by creating well-documented compensation plans that consider internal pay equity.

Creating greater internal pay equity can lead to long-term benefits for your company like:

• Improved employee retention.
• Reduced costs from turnover, such as hiring and training.
• Increased employee morale.
• Better productivity overall.

Join us for this full hour of HR education led by PayScale Director of Customer Service and Education Stacey Carroll, MBA, SPHR.

This webinar is approved for 1.0 credits towards HRCI re-certification and 1.5 credits towards CHRP re-certification.

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Workforce Planning for 2010: HR's Strategic Role

Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:00 AM PST, 1:00 PM EST

Due to the economy, key workforce factors involving turnover, retirement and headcount have changed. Is your organization ready to meet these new demands?

Review the building blocks of workforce planning and learn more advanced methods that can increase HR's strategic value within your organization for 2010 and beyond.

In this how-to guide for HR leaders, Stacey Carroll, SPHR, MBA highlights best practices for basic workforce planning activities and then gives insight into more advanced strategies, including how to:

• Assess your current and future workforce needs for the short, middle and long term.
• Forecast external supply of available talent with accurate research and data-gathering methods.
• Deal with an HR surplus, using creative approaches including retraining or reorganization.

This webinar is pending-approval for 1.0 credit towards HRCI re-certification and 1.5 credits towards CHRP re-certification.

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Accurate Compensation Data: How to Get What You Need

Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST

What is it about PayScale's methodology that fills common gaps left by traditional salary surveys? How can you use the database to get more accurate benchmarking results?

See how PayScale's unique data collection method lets you benchmark positions more accurately and easily than ever before.

Director of Quantitative Analysis Al Lee, Ph.D., explains the details of our methodology, while Product Specialist Emily Chereck shows how benchmarking no longer has to involve guesswork. Their discussion will cover:

• Data collection: Our survey comprehensively covers education level, unique skills and certifications, years in the field and job responsibilities - information that is often left out in company talent management reports.
• Data integrity: We use various techniques to ensure data integrity, including robust statistical analysis, automated data validation rules and annual studies with third party surveys.
• Data analysis: Combining organizational and employee-specific factors lets you better analyze market-rate pay for an individual.

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Top 5 Compensation Weak Spots - and How to Fix Them

Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:00 AM PST, 1:00 PM EST

Do you know where the weak spots lie in your organization's compensation strategy? Too often, they're only discovered when trouble arises.

Reinforce the weak points in your organization's compensation strategy. Learn solutions to potential problems that support business goals and reward high performance.

Stacey Carroll, SPHR, MBA outlines the steps needed to troubleshoot problems before they spread. In this webinar, she covers:

• The top five causes of compensation weak spots, and how to identify them.
• How to develop a strategy for fixing areas that need improvement.
• Ways to evaluate the costs involved in correcting compensation strategy weaknesses.
• Get buy-in from senior leaders for an improved compensation program.

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How to Have Tough Conversations with Employees

Tuesday, April 06, 2010 10:00 AM PST, 1:00 PM EST

Performance issues, low merit pay increases, personality clashes - every company has a set of sticky situations that must be navigated with clear communication. When the subject of discussion is unpleasant or personal, that's not an easy task.

Do your managers frequently need help handling tough conversations with their team? Could you use advice about how to deal with these situations in the best way possible?

This webinar presents you with key information about each element of a difficult conversation, so that you and your management team can resolve problems while maintaining high productivity and morale for 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 tough conversations.

• Avoid a conversation backfire, with a list of communication tips and tricks that help ensure your message is received clearly and the discussion ends with an active effort to resolve the problem.

This webinar is approved for 1.0 credits towards HRCI re-certification and 1.5 credits towards CHRP re-certification.

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How to Perform Compensation Analytics

Thursday, April 22, 2010 10:00 AM PST, 1:00 PM EST

You've benchmarked compensation for your workforce, now what? Further compensation data analysis can enhance your compensation plan so that it increases profits and productivity.

Join in as HR expert Stacey Carroll, MBA, SPHR, explains how compensation analysis can address the following questions:

• Do your current compensation ranges need adjustment?

• Are you compensating your high performers and high potentials differently than your average performers?

• How do compa-ratios differ by pay grade?

• Is your organization experiencing internal compensation compression - and if so, how big a problem is it?

• How much does tenure have an impact on compensation?

• Are there any alarming patterns in compensation by department or manager?

This webinar is pending approval for 1.0 credits towards HRCI re-certification and 1.5 credits towards CHRP re-certification.

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High Impact Performance Management

Tuesday, May 04, 2010 10:00 AM PST, 1:00 PM EST

As the economy improves and other companies are able to offer higher salaries, are your top performers getting ready to jump ship?

Start positioning for economic recovery with a performance management program that retains and rewards top talent appropriately - and won't throw your budget off kilter.

Top talent drives results in an organization, and they can make or break your company. HR expert Stacey Caroll, MBA, SPHR leads you through the steps needed to develop a rewards and retention program, including how to:

• Identify the characteristics of top performers, and train managers to do so as well.

• Recruit and retain top talent with rewards that go beyond just raises and bonuses.

• Deal with non-performers in order to maintain a company culture of high performance.

This webinar is approved for 1.0 credits towards HRCI re-certification and 1.5 credits towards CHRP re-certification.

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Should Your Organization Pay for Performance?

Thursday, May 20, 2010 10:00 AM PST, 1:00 PM EST

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 de-motivate employees and waste time and money on an ineffective plan.

Find out the reasons to adopt a pay-for-performance plan and the steps needed to create one that will encourage your talent to excel.

In this hour-long session, HR expert Stacey Caroll, MBA, SPHR explains how to decide whether or not to implement this model at your company. You learn to:

• Define pay for performance, and understand how it can build upon standard yearly raises linked to performance reviews.

• Evaluate the potential positive and negative consequences of adopting a pay-for-performance plan.

• Identify whether or not a pay-for-performance model is right for your organization.

• Follow a provided to-do list for rolling out a pay-for-performance plan.

This webinar is pending approval for 1.0 credits towards HRCI re-certification and 1.5 credits towards CHRP re-certification.

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