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W O R K S H O P S
Beyond Base Pay: Using Incentives to Drive
Performance ICS400
Build an appropriate contextual framework for considering
performance-based incentive and merit pay systems. Gain
critical insights on different types of variable pay programs
and how they align with business strategy.
Executive Compensation, and Key Talent and
Superstar Pay for Performance ICS401
Understand the role that compensation plays in aligning
performance, strategy and pay for "must-retain" employees
and organizational leaders. Examine important considerations
for rewards, risks, retention and return. Multiple, real-world
scenarios illustrate how to achieve business objectives and
strategic goals.
Evaluating Performance-Based Compensation
Programs: Tools and Techniques ICS402
Explore quantitative and non-quantitative tools and
techniques for assessing performance pay through a variety
of lenses. Consider performance pay through multiple human
resource and fnancial metrics that quantify returns to the
organization from a performance-based pay system.
Optimizing Pay for Performance and Managing
Compensation Change ICS403
Examine strategies for optimizing the process of aligning the
organization's performance goals with employee behaviors
and preferences. Learn key factors in communicating and
driving change and fully aligning performance pay with
organizational goals.
Total Rewards: Compensation and Benefits HR226
Learn to plan and execute a system that attracts, engages and
retains employees (see Page 5).
For specifc questions regarding institute offerings,
contact Stephanie Thomas at srt82@cornell.edu or call
607.255.1552.
TOTAL REWARDS
Linking pay to performance, creating an
appropriate compensation philosophy and
considering what types of incentive pay are more
effective for which employees are critical to
successfully leveraging incentive and merit pay
programs in your organization.
The Advanced Certifcate in Performance Pay, Metrics and
Practice Alignment offered by the Institute for Compensation
Studies serves HR professionals, analysts, managers, compen-
sation practitioners and business partners. A curriculum of
two-day intensive classes aligns with Cornell University ILR
School senior faculty course content.
Through these programs, professionals:
• Apply systems and organizational thinking.
• Emphasize customized action rather than
"one-size-fts-all" solutions.
• Beneft from valuable peer-to-peer exchange.
• Learn at the crossroads of scholarship and practice.
Schedule of offerings allows the certifcate to be completed
in fewer than eight months.
@ICSCornell
To register, visit our website
www.ilr.cornell.edu/ics.
Performance Pay, Metrics and Practice
Alignment Advanced Certificate
Beyond Base Pay: Using Incentives to
Drive Performance
Executive Compensation, and Key Talent
and Superstar Pay for Performance
Evaluating Performance-Based
Compensation Programs: Tools and
Techniques
Optimizing Pay for Performance and
Managing Compensation Change
ICS400
ICS401
ICS402
ICS403
INSTITUTE FOR COMPENSATION STUDIES
Total Rewards