In this webinar we will share 4 best practices for automating your comp planning that will help avoid a lot of wasted time, resources and money.
1. Streamlining: How to avoid workarounds by building the right automated flow
2. Simplifying: How to use automation to delegate & provide decision support
3. Systems: Leverage automation to improve checks & balances, auditability, and scalability
4. Strategy: Utilizing automated & integrated data to maximize compensation budgets
4. AGENDA
Brian Sharp
Chief Marketing Officer, HRsoft
S. Austin Muzumdar
Senior Vice President Products & Services, HRsoft
Our Presenters
Talent Takeaways | Automating Comp Planning
5. The Core of Compensation
Productivity
Retention
Innovation
Profitability
Talent Takeaways | Automating Comp Planning
It started with a simple mission…
Get the most motivation out the allocated budget.
7. The Comp Automation Approach
Streamlining: How to avoid workarounds by
building the right automated workflow
Simplifying: How to use automation to delegate
& provide decision support
Systems: Leverage automation to improve
checks & balances, auditability & scalability
Strategy: Utilizing automated & integrated
data to maximize compensation budgets
Talent Takeaways | Automating Comp Planning
9. Evaluating Your Comp Planning Process
What is the current documented process?
List out the entire process
What are the most critical components?
Challenge anything not working
What steps/processes could be trimmed?
Zero based budget model
Goal: Automate a better, more strategic process.
Talent Takeaways | Automating Comp Planning
11. Building the Right Workflow for Automation
Build a workflow that works for 90% of scenarios
Create a linear approval chain
Utilize reporting for planner accountability
Trust your managers & approvers
Talent Takeaways | Automating Comp Planning
13. Using Automation for Delegation & Decision Support
Identify tasks that can be delegated with technology
What 3rd party integrations could be used?
Introduce performance based guidelines
Easy to understand & execute
Use reporting for manager accountability
Empower your managers but hold them accountable
Talent Takeaways | Automating Comp Planning
15. Build the right reports
planner status, budget adherence, etc.
Ensure all user actions are auditable
Track all decisions, overrides, etc.
Build flexible processes
Applies to strategy and technology.
Talent Takeaways | Automating Comp Planning
Leverage automation to improve checks & balances,
auditability, and scalability
17. Utilizing Automated & Integrated Data to Maximize
Compensation Budgets
Identify the strategic comp focus
What part of the organization is most critical?
Leverage data from performance management
Allocate budget in the right places.
Identify values for support & revenue driving roles
Retain top performers throughout the organization
Talent Takeaways | Automating Comp Planning
18. Talent Takeaways
Streamlining
Automate a better, strategic workflow
Simplifying
Use guidelines & 3rd party technology
Systems
Build flexible, auditable processes
Strategy
Identify org focus & system for valuing
Talent Takeaways | Automating Comp Planning
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Layer on years of old, inefficient processes and technology and we have a real problem
In many cases we have added additional complexity that does not support the original mission
Automation doesn’t have to be software, content today applies to online and offline.
Sometimes we create extra complexity that don't support that mission
Today we are going to help you get back to basics
Build a system around the original simple, strategic approach – no matter how complex your process is.
Share 4 best practices for automating your comp planning process
- Kind of the hard part. Requires a different set of lenses.
Look at your processes & analyze what’s working, what’s not and what is really necessary
Automating a poor process is a bad idea!
Look at your process
Analyze what is really necessary and trim it down as far as you can (example: zero based budget)
Challenge anything not working
If you automate the same process and automate it. You won't see great results
Automating a better process that is more strategic
Sign of an inefficient process or technology are workarounds
You don't have to have workarounds for every workflow
Best place to start is strip down the process to it’s essentials
Automation is about building systems to support your workflow, not workarounds to fix your systems!
Need approval chain that is linear - Build approval heirarchy off the existing chain in your organization
(example: 2 week process that turns into a 2 month process)
(example: Austin working for 2 managers, the one he works for more should do the comp planning. Keep it simple)
Trust your managers and reviewers (automation will identify those issues if you don't trust them)
Automation provides real-time reports allows you to check for issues
Very common challenge.
Looking for way to leverage the efforts of the tools and people around you. (colleagues, software, 3rd parties, managers)
Automation can empower your managers and reduce your workload
Fewer handoffs, fewer mistakes, more decision support = a simpler workflow
Goal: simplify process so easier for managers to use the process and HR can focus on core mission.
We don’t want managers to have to figure out how to create the comp planning strategy, just how to execute it.
80/20 rule focus on managers
Introduce performance based guidelines (and/or market data based). Introduce it simple. (example: click on award and get the info)
Analyze the organization: Identify critical parts of the organization: are you doing a 1 size fits all approach or do you have a strategic approach to help support that? (department, certain groups of employees). Can you help your managers identify those people.
Most associate systems with automation.
Automation can do much more than improve efficiency. With the right systems, it can improve effectiveness.
Busted budgets, spreadsheet errors, last minute changes, missed deadlines, etc.
Leveraging automation can provide much needed checks & balances, auditability, and scalability
Auditability - make sure all user actions are auditable. Expectations that you can track all decisions, overrides, etc. Not in most automation tools. Make sure you can get that data you need. Who made all recommendations, etc. Helps protect you legally as well.
Scalability - most of you are going to need to change processes for some reason. Make sure whatever you build is flexible. Can handle the expected and unexpected changes. Applies to the strategy and technology.
Example: building out a status report so you know who to focus on during comp planning. Budget variance reports - proactively update management and identify potential issues.
Example: Eric’s spreadsheet hack (Brian)
Automation ultimately gives you the time and data allowing you to get back to the strategic planning
Identifying and rewarding the right talent (improve productivity, retention)
Return on Employment (ROE)
In other words, putting the comp budget where it can help most.
Before automation, it was too time consuming but not any more!
- Place value on support roles and revenue roles - help you retain the top performers throughout the organization. The most obvious is that the comp process is recognizing high performers. Implement a fair way of valuing roles in the organizations. (resource: Offline tools & DB Squared).
Example: like household budget, allocating for things that matter most
Analyze the organization: Identify critical parts of the organization: are you doing a 1 size fits all approach or do you have a strategic approach to help support that? (department, certain groups of employees). Make sure budget gets to the right places
Things are going to be more transparent with new rules coming out. It’s a conversation
Can be overwhelming to figure out where to start
Whether you are currently using offline manual processes or software that is not a fit for your workflow, automation can be a challenge.
Our COMPview solution solves that problem. From controlled chaos to automated comp planning.
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