Create the best rules in Outlook to boost your productivity

Beginning of the year, we all come back full of good intentions. In today’s Sunday Skills, I want to show you how to easily set up rules to manage the inflow to your Outlook inbox. The steps are very simple and explained in this presentation : What matters really, is how you can use these…

Fresh professional goals for 2012 as a Compensation leader

I don’t do  New Year resolutions any longer. I used to go through the ritual in the past, but my motivation, like for many people, never lasted long. After a few weeks or even a few days, I was back to my past behaviour and never gave these resolutions another look back… until the end…

Merit increase or bonus, how do you reward performance ?

Welcome back to Compensation Insider ! I wish you an excellent year and hope you will be visiting my site regularly 🙂 Given we are at the beginning of the year and most HR and Compensation experts are about to go through salary reviews and bonus payments, I thought it would be relevant to share…

Merry Christmas and see you in 2012 !

2011 has seen the launch of Compensation Insider. Since the end of August, I have written over 55 articles on different Performance Management, Compensation, Benefits, International Mobility and Governance topics. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my readers for their words of encouragement and some great quality comments. I feel honoured to…

Share the knowledge – December 2011

A bit early this month due to the Christmas holidays, but interesting nonetheless ! Some of the best or most relevant Compensation & Benefits, performance management, HR and/or global mobility articles that I came across recently : The Global Top 25 Companies for Leaders have been unveiled Career advice from women in HR As a…

The safeguards in salary benchmarking

Here is a paraphrase of a LinkedIn question asked recently : “How do you make sure each role benchmarked for salary purposes has the same responsibility ? Is there legislation on this ?” This is a question a Compensation specialist often gets from managers. Here is what you can reply when you get that question…

A follow-up on Zynga

So Zynga, the company behind hugely successful Farmville and other games on Facebook, eventually proceeded to its IPO last week. Despite raising 1 billion dollars (the largest tech IPO since Google), the stock value fizzled very rapidly, even on the first day : it was priced at 10 $ and closed at 9.45 $. This…