2. Vitae
CLIFFORD F. COLE
He is
the principal in the CLIFF COLE HR ALLIANCE.
It is a team of experienced professionals dedicated to providing high quality HR solutions in compensation and organizational
effectiveness through value-added outsourced human resource alternatives!
He is is past Chairman of Food Distribution’s Human Resource Executive committee. He is a former Group Vice President of
Human Resources for Sara Lee Corporation and Vice President of Human Resources for PYA/Monarch Food Service
Distributors with over 29 years of experience with Sara Lee at the corporate & operating level in food, food distribution, consumer
personal apparel, printing and manufacturing.
He has in depth know how and experience in Compensation, Executive Coaching, Organization and Human Development,
Succession Planning, Performance Management, Search, Recruitment and Selection, Employee & Labor Relations, Acquisition,
Merger, and Start-Up Initiatives.
He is a speaker at management seminars for the food industry, human resource & productivity conferences, along with college &
university development programs. He also has served on the Clemson University Board of Continuing Education. He is a former
Board Member of the South Carolina Special Olympics.
The team services Fortune 100 companies along with small, medium and large businesses located globally and through out the
United States. Representative clients both internally and externally are Frosty Acres, Centennial Foods, PYA/Monarch, Sara Lee,
Sky Brothers, Sandler Foods, Coastal Foods, Schloss & Kahn, Capital Foods, Brooks Food Group, Earth Fare, Booth Fisheries,
Idaho Frozen Foods, Bali, Hanes, Lexington & Bassett Furniture and Russell Corporation!
CLIFF COLE HR ALLIANCE
124 Kingshead Road
Travelers Rest, SC 29690
Phone 864.430.0630
Email cole2877@bellsouth.net
Fax 864.836.4935
ALIGNING PEOPLE FOR RESULTS
3. The most important Reward component!
Have you HUGGED your kid today?
Why not?
How are you spending
your time?
What could be more fun?
4. Where are we going today?
Due North?
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5. Where are we really going today?
Overview of a Total Reward System
Specifics on:
Building a sound cash compensation program
Focus on cash incentives
8. What works in Reward Systems?
CERTAINLY NOT A PROGRAM OF THE DAY!
X
9. Rewards for Performance
Total Direct Compensation Benefits
Health & Welfare
Base salary
Retirement - 401(k)
Rewards & Recognition
Time off
Annual bonus
Business knowledge
Career development Organization climate
Learning experiences Leadership
Performance management Team spirit
Training Tools to perform job
High potential & succession Work/life balance
Learning and Development Work Environment
10. Total Direct Compensation
Focus on long-term strategic
member value creation
Needed
Winning Incentive to focus on
To short-term tactical
Win team
objectives
Immediate, cash /
Performance- non-cash,
Based on-the-spot
recognition
Annual Bonus
Rewards Market
& competitive
Recognition salary level
Needed
To
Play
Base Salary
11. FAB Work Environment
“FIERCE” - is at the heart of our work environment and our success.
Fighters:
People who commit to a passion for excellence, integrity, trust and a winning culture .
Innovation:
Create our future.
Empowerment:
Provide freedom to take ownership, accountability and behave “FIERCELY” in all you do.
12. FAB Work Environment
“FIERCE” - is at the heart of our work environment and our success.
Relationships:
Build relationships that improve the quality of people’s lives and their environment.
Communications:
Develop a fair and equitable culture that respects everyone’s ideas, opinions and experiences.
Education:
Take personal ownership and accountability for building know how, skills and ability.
13. Learning and Development
People Teamwork
+ =
Equipped with proper Working together Company
tools to develop their to achieve common Success
leadership potential business goals
Assessment
High Potential & Succession Planning
Personal Development
Educational Assistance Program
14. A bit of Rewards History
The 40’s/50’s
A hungry worker is the best worker
Not much in the way of rewards
The 60’s/70’s
$ started to shake loose
Benefits too
Tricky Dick and Wage/Price controls
The 80’s
% increases made for bigger pieces of the pie
$ and benefits kept rolling
The 90’s to Tomorrow
The $ slowed down
Benefit cost shifting in vogue
Benefits more costly
15. A word about Rewards Philosophy!
Total Direct Compensation
Our focus for today’s session!
Benefits
Learning & Development
Work Environment
16. What do you want and need to be?
Quality of Player
Competitive Market
To find, get and keep players who perform?
Business competitors and cost issues?
So where and how will you spend your money?
What will you get for it?
18. How do you build a sound program?
Job Content
Current Pay Practices
Plan Design
Compensation Strategy
Salary Grades and Ranges
Pricing Philosophy
Base Salary
Annual Incentive Plan
Administration
19. How do you look for example?
XXX’S compensation appears to be:
Base Salaries - Below Market
Annual Incentives - Incentive opportunities calculated as a % of existing
base salary are Below Market
Total Annual Cash Compensation - Below Market
Annual Incentive Payout is High vs. Actual Performance as a company
20. How do you look for example??
Employees see hurdle rate
Feel it is not attainable!
Thus bonus opportunity does not:
motivate employees
does not help attract or retain
21.
22. What do you do?
Create new pay policy
Develop strategy for moving to it
Develop strategy for rewarding your:
Stars
High Pots
At risk
23.
24. What do you do administratively??
Pool for:
Stars
High Potentials
At Risk
Performance Increases
Promotion/Demotion Treatment
25. KEEPING PLANS SIMPLE
The incentive pool should:
Be visible to the employee participants as it
accumulates.
Have a corporate performance component
Be accumulated based on goals and measures which
best reflect employee influence on results
Include a personal performance improvement target for
each employee
26. KEEPING PLANS SIMPLE
The best plans:
Are supported by a flow of relevant management information
in time for corrective action.
Also have a component allowing corporate leaders to
spontaneously issue special recognition of employees in
cash,
27. KEEPING PLANS SIMPLE
A general rule exists: “when salaries are kept low,
incentives are paid easily and early”.
The higher the salary competitively, the higher the
standards to become eligible for incentives.
28. Incentive Measures (Major Categories)
Sales Volume
Profit
Return On Equity or Sales or Investment
Products
Procurement
Distribution
29. Incentive Measures (Sales)
Sales Volume
Profit $ and/or % - Gross - Net - Margin
Accounts - Target - New
Products – Mix – New – Push
Volume
Personal
Team
District
Region
Department
Division
Company
Customers All - New - Existing
30. Incentive Measures (Distribution)
Performance to Budget Total Operations Department
Dollar performance
Through-put performance
inbound / outbound cases per hour
or use tonnage per man hour
cases unloaded by drivers per delivery hour
average cases per outbound load
Total Distribution Center Service Level
On time departure
On Time delivery
Total Distribution Center Product Damage
damage and Loss write off by warehousing
damage and loss write off by transportation
32. Measurement Units
Percent of Quota
Dollar Amount
Number Achieved
Points
Subjective Evaluation
Percent
33. Incentive Payouts for Performance
Threshold
The beginning point, usually at least last years performance
Competent Performer Compensation
Amount paid for achieving planned results.
Outstanding Performer Compensation
Amount paid for significantly exceeding planned expectations.
34. Incentive Measures Weights
Communicate to the Person how important each
measure is relative to the total job.
Sales Volume: 70%
Product Mix: 20%
Target Accounts: 10%
Total: 100%
35. Incentive Linkages
Internal
External
Sales
Distribution
Finance
Procurement
FAB
Member
36. The most important Reward component!
Have you HUGGED your kid today?
Why not?
How are you spending
your time?
What could be more fun?
Notes de l'éditeur
Bob, I get everyone to stand up, close there eyes, point “due north”, keep there hands up, open their eyes, and look at everyone pointing in different directions. The point being without having data or plan to know where they are going, they will never get there.
In Its most simplest form Find Get Keep Players & get them to play Today’s Game, EVERY DAY !
Players today, Good players want and expect to get a holistic reward system. Russell Story –Change and move from Alex City to Atlanta. Had to completely change compensation approach!
I t’s more fun to play on a team that truly believes they can win, and does, than one that doesn’t believe and loses We need to be at the forefront of new ideas, generating competitive advantages; if we don’t someone else will decide our destiny. Em powered employees see themselves as owners of the Company who feel responsible for not only saying what’s wrong but taking action to fix it. FIERCELY is not a “program” or a set of materials to be distributed. It is the guide for the way we live at FAB. It is because of our core VALUES that we will be successful in achieving our business mission.
Taking time to really understand the needs and motivations of our fellow employees, our members, and suppliers. Taking time to really understand the needs and motivations of our fellow employees, our members, and suppliers. If we don’t have and respect the perspectives of individuals of a different race, nationality, gender, age, background, experience or style, we put our Company at a competitive disadvantage. Educated employees build personal and company security because they can play the game well FROSTY ACRES will work hard to create an environment that demonstrates our “FIERCE” values and reputation. Now more than ever, we want to use our values in a way that allows us to continually achieve extraordinary results. By making these values a part of our everyday culture, we create a foundation of strength and internal trust that will enable FAB to become a foodservice coop of choice. To our members, suppliers, and employees “FIERCE” clearly states what we stand for and is the compass for all of us on what is expected for all of us to do business.
A BIT OF INCENTIVE HISTORY The key purpose of incentive plans is to motivate , but over time there has been evolution and much discussion about exactly what is considered motivating. 17/18th century A hungry worker is the best worker Stimulate co-operativeness and increase productivity 19th century $ make people work harder Piece work motivates Best paid worker is the most productive 19/20th century Profit sharing—produce more at less cost Gain-sharing---50/50 split of gain 20th century Bonus for higher output Bonus for exceeding standard Bonus for value of contribution Competitive peer social forces motivate A lean organization creates more opportunity for key performers Now that we are at the beginning of the 21st century what lessons have we to pass on our heirs? “ We now know that for an incentive to work it needs to be easily understood, easily measured and developed with open co-operation between employee and his/her boss”.
What do you need to be? Competitive Market –employees – competitors? Geographic issues Where and how will you spend your money?
TOTAL CASH is the amount of total dollars you plan to pay a fully competent performer to achieve planned and expected sales objectives. The total cash plan would include base salary and incentive, variable, cash compensation. It is the amount of cash you have to pay to be competitive in your market, and/or the amount you can afford and budget. The Upside Incentive Opportunity is the amount of incentive compensation that will be paid to a top performer for performance that exceeds planned goals by a defined amount.
KEEPING PLANS SIMPLE The greatest strength, and the greatest weakness, in successful incentive plans relates to keeping things simple. To be both simple and successful the literature suggests: 1. The incentive pool should be visible to the employee participants as it accumulates. The earlier and greater the level of anticipation the more motivating for the employee and the earlier any negative business trends will be corrected by these employees as they adapt. 2. The incentive pool should be accumulated based on goals and measures which best reflect employee influence on the continuation of corporate health over the long term and meet expectations of the shareholders. Profit, margin, consistency in meeting plan month by month, on-time-delivery and client satisfaction are well documented as good measures everyone understands. 3. The incentive pool accumulation should be based on corporate performance. Corporate performance is the “must have” component in determining pay out from a basic incentive plan. Employees in the divisions must be conscious of their contribution to corporate performance and must be encouraged to work as a team to jointly focus on achieving corporate performance targets. 4. Access to incentive pay out from the incentive pool should be based, at the very least, on meeting team performance targets. Not meeting team targets limits or precludes payment from the incentive pool.
KEEPING PLANS SIMPLE The greatest strength, and the greatest weakness, in successful incentive plans relates to keeping things simple. To be both simple and successful the literature suggests: 5. The best plans also include a personal performance improvement target for each employee, such as: Employee X must improve personal skill in gathering and using competitive intelligence to support a planned 5% gain in division market share. 6. The best plans are based on management leadership and team member mutual trust, supported by a flow of relevant management information in time for corrective action. 7. There should be an assumption in the plan that goals, measures and funding formula will change and there should be a documented process for addressing change as the corporate plan unfolds, annually and forward. 8. Successful plans also have a component allowing corporate leaders to spontaneously issue special recognition of employees in cash, at the time when an exceptional individual effort, team performance or corporate contribution is identified. These awards are usually small, under $2500.00, and may be in the form of family trips or privileges. 9. A general rule exists: “when salaries are kept low, incentives are paid easily and early”. The higher the salary competitively, the higher the standards to become eligible for incentives.
KEEPING PLANS SIMPLE The greatest strength, and the greatest weakness, in successful incentive plans relates to keeping things simple. To be both simple and successful the literature suggests: 5. The best plans also include a personal performance improvement target for each employee, such as: Employee X must improve personal skill in gathering and using competitive intelligence to support a planned 5% gain in division market share. 6. The best plans are based on management leadership and team member mutual trust, supported by a flow of relevant management information in time for corrective action. 7. There should be an assumption in the plan that goals, measures and funding formula will change and there should be a documented process for addressing change as the corporate plan unfolds, annually and forward. 8. Successful plans also have a component allowing corporate leaders to spontaneously issue special recognition of employees in cash, at the time when an exceptional individual effort, team performance or corporate contribution is identified. These awards are usually small, under $2500.00, and may be in the form of family trips or privileges. 9. A general rule exists: “when salaries are kept low, incentives are paid easily and early”. The higher the salary competitively, the higher the standards to become eligible for incentives.