Compensation, Rewards, Incentives – What’s the Difference? Next Blogtalkradio Show from Influence Insider

Yeah – it’s been a while since the last episode of Influence Insider on blogtalkradio.  But we had such a great guest in @brianahearn I wanted to be sure we could meet that standard before we went on air again.  And I think we’ve done it.  (If you haven’t listened to the show that featured Brian – do it here – it’s a great discussion on influence.)

Compensation Café Is In the House!

You know them, you love them, and I know you follow them.  It’s Compensation Café and we’ve got them on the show next Wednesday July 7, 2010 at Noon EDT to talk about compensation plan design and how it might overlap with other influence programs such as reward and recognition and other non-cash incentive activities.  

Started by @AnnBares from Compensation Force fame – Compensation Café is a multi-author site featuring (each name will link to their bios on the Compensation Café site): 

Ann Bares, Doug Sayed, Margaret O'Hanlon, Chuck Csizmar, Laura Schroeder, E. James (Jim) Brennan, Stephanie Thomas, Derek Irvine, and Dan Walter

I know we’ll have a Jim, Derek, Dan and Ann on for sure – and fingers crossed, maybe a few more.

Compensation and Rewards

Traditionally, compensation and other “award” programs pretty much lived in their own silos but today – with a bigger focus on the “total rewards package” my spidey-sense says that there is a need for more coordination between these disciplines.  For over 20 years I’ve designed internal incentive and reward programs with nary a thought about compensation structures.  But the last few years have shown me that it is a critical element in the way that we influence behavior with our employees – especially sales folks.

Without proper alignment of these tools we send mixed messages to our audience and that’s a bad thing.  

Tune in and listen to these top-notch minds grabble with the best way to manage the overlap between the hard dollars and cents side of the reward coin and the non-cash reward side.   And follow on twitter at the hashtag:  #insideinfluence

See you Wednesday at Noon, July 7, 2010 as we re-start the Influence Insider engine and give you the best hour of influence discussion on the planet.