Course Description
It’s a common refrain in so many businesses and industries today: Do more with less. As a result, HR professionals are being asked to do a little of everything—from hiring, management, recruiting, employment law compliance, and, of course, compensation.
The good news is if you’re a “compensation department of one,” there are strategies you can put in place to make your salary administration program more manageable, strategic, and successful overall.
Join us when speaker John Rubino, President of Rubino Consulting Services, reveals insights into the compensation strategies and tactics designed to help HR professionals entrusted with guiding their organization’s compensation policies and practices. Through real-life examples, you’ll learn techniques to put into practice right away to get your compensation efforts headed in the right direction.
Learning Objectives- What the world of compensation looks like today, how we’ve gotten to this point and where you may struggle with limited resources
- What the most savvy compensation experts know and do that makes them more successful
- Tell-tale signs that you’ve got a handle on compensation or should call in outside consultant
- How to keep things as simple as possible, while still planning a successful, flexible compensation strategy for your organization
- Effective ways to increase your own knowledge base on compensation
- Tips for communicating compensation effectively
- Variable pay program tripwires to avoid
- The fundamental difference between payroll and compensation
- Top hurdles your compensation department of one could face—and practical strategies for overcoming them with ease
- Examples of how small improvements in your organization’s compensation practices can have a big impact on boosting the bottom line
About Your PresenterJohn Rubino
Founder and President
Rubino Consulting Services
John Rubino has more than 30 years of experience designing and implementing human resources programs for a wide variety of organizations in the financial services, technology, manufacturing and public sectors, as both a practitioner and consultant. Prior to forming his own company, he was senior manager of consulting for Ernst & Young LLP and director of executive compensation for The Equitable Life Insurance Company.
As an internationally acclaimed speaker, Mr. Rubino conducts numerous presentations to global audiences. He is also a speaker, course developer and seminar leader for WorldatWork (formerly the American Compensation Association) and the American Management Association, as well as a speaker for SHRM's annual conferences.
John is the author of two books: “Developing Compensation Programs: Job Analysis, Evaluation and Classification” and “Communicating Compensation Programs: An Approach to Providing Information to Employees.” In addition, he has written numerous articles on human resources program development and is frequently quoted in professional publications.
A Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), Certified Benefits Professional (CBP), Global Remuneration Professional (GRP), and Work-Life Certified Professional (WLCP), Senior Practitioner in Human Resources (SPHR), Mr. Rubino holds a BA from Wagner College, an MBA from the Lubin Graduate School of Business, Pace University, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from WorldatWork and an Honorary Membership Award from the South African Reward Association (SARA) based in Johannnesburg.