CompBen 101

 CompBen 101

When you review for salaries, always look at the disparity between the basic pay of your old and new employees. The old should have better pay commensurate of the value that they gave to the organization.

It is very counter productive to hire new employees at the same basic pay as your old ones. Worst if you hire them at a much higher basic rate.

For a performance-based job, meaning you'll get more pay in incentives and bonuses if you produce more, of course old employees will always have a higher pay than the new ones. But have you tried computing the actual percentage of the value provided to you by both set of employees? Add in the cost of training and the loss in productivity before the new ones get to the level of the old employees. Try it and you'll see a big value added gap between the two.

Compensation is the number one motivation why employees work. Most often than not, employees equate them with their sense of accomplishment and their source of pride. The new set of workforce places a high value on the type of luxuries that they can get out of their salaries. Food, travel, gadgets and all other things that will make them feel that they have done well in life. Take that out and they'll find another company to work with faster than you can blink.

Just some thoughts!

Loyalty and Difficult Bosses

Aura Manatad

November 7, 2018 · 

A poem that I've learned from my high school days plus the military mantra of "obey first before you complain" has been my guiding light in all my work experiences.

If you do the first sentence of the poem, you don't need to experience the rest of it. Loyalty entails that you strive to help those whom you are working for. You initiate improvements instead of complain, adjust your behavior and attitude in order to be of better help, and you don't perpetuate gossip and intrigues against your boss.
If you've done all that and still you don't sync with the organization, then you can leave gracefully.
Bosses are human, they're not perfect you need to accept that.
And whatever you do, please don't blame your poor performance and bad attitude on the boss's imperfections--you just can't.
Your attitude is your accountability.

I have worked for and with managers who are perceived as difficult before. People complain about them a lot. I have challenges with them too, yes. But the only real struggle I've done is just really to learn the standards they've set for everyone and adjust my skills and knowledge in order to meet their standards and be of value to the team I'm in with them. I don't blame them. I learned from them instead.
I always leave (and I resigned a lot 🙂) for self growth, not because I had a bad boss. It's not their fault if I can't meet their standards.
You don't really need a Great Leader to be a Great Follower. You start with that, that's called Self Leadership.
And because of that I've had very good working relationship with all the big bosses that I've work for and with in the past, even if some of them were perceived as difficult by many.
Having a lot of people complain about the bosses supposed difficult behavior do not necessarily make it true. Remember, mediocrity abounds and mediocre people whines and whiners do it in packs.

#salutetoallthebossiveworkedbefore

Planning Up for 2009: The Challenge for Corporate Stewardship v.2

October is fast approaching and with it commences the planning season among businesses and industry players. Nowadays corporations don’t just plan, but strategize. Mere planning just won’t do anymore if companies want to keep up with the competition or better yet get ahead. With stiff competition pushing in at all angles of corporate life, strategic planning becomes a necessity. Compared to mere planning—the listing down of what to do and when to do for the coming year, strategic planning uses various business analysis techniques. Strategic planning allows company leaders to define corporate strategy or direction, make decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.
Competition is no longer simple. Gone where the days when all a company needs to do and think about is how to come up with a better product than those similarly available products in the market; days when competition is merely a matter of price and its appeal to the consumers. Branding is now the new industry hype. Branding not only with prime products but encompasses the whole organization. Coming out as the best manufacturer or service provider is not enough. You also have to be among the best employer, the company with the best social responsibility programs.
With the entry of these international companies with better capital investments, local corporations must consider competition at all levels from product; research and development; marketing & advertising; logistics, and even manpower. More than ever before, strategic planning in all areas becomes a necessary tool for organizations.
One company acknowledges this need and provides other corporate entities a means to invest in their future. Leaders Link Training and Consulting, a company who makes it their business to see other businesses succeed, offers a timely training program for its October Public run. Strategic Planning Facilitation, a seminar workshop that will help HR managers, organizational development practitioners gain practical and better strategic planning facilitation skills will be run on October 16-17, 2008. The seminar is an activity based program that will focus plans and strategies based on the company’s stated mission, vision and values. Financial Forecasting and Budgeting which will be held on October 24, 2008 is a seminar workshop designed to help managers have a better business planning skills in terms of budget forecasts. Among other things, the workshop will discuss matters like how to develop a strategic budget plan. Another workshop, this time targeting marketing people, is the Strategic Marketing to be held on October 30-31, 2008. This two-day activity-based seminar will help participants discover the competitive advantage of their company that could translate to growth opportunities and develop multiple & effective revenue-generating marketing approaches. For information and inquiries regarding this trainings please contact Leaders Link Training and Consulting Center at the following numbers (032) 422-5552, & (032) 422-8505 or visit the company Web site at www.leaderslink.org.Being a part of the very competitive world of business, corporate leaders must be able to find ways to keep the edge ahead of their competition. The best route to do this is to have your people continuously developed themselves by creating a culture of learning in your own organization. Creating a learning organization, a place where, according to Peter Singe, author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole (reality) together, will be an excellent strategy to move an organization to the direction they want to take in flying colors.