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QCG’s most recent Reward Leaders Forum (RLF) event was focused on annual bonus and long-term incentive practices and trends, including incentive design mechanics such as eligibility, target levels, funding, performance measures and measurement levels.
We were joined at the event by a guest speaker, as well as senior reward professionals representing a range of organisations from a number of different industries. This facilitated a high degree of meaningful information sharing on performance-related reward practices and key trends.  Please click here for a summary of current RLF members.
For more information on the performance related reward event or the survey that we ran [...]

As research for the most recent Reward Leaders Forum event, QCG ran a survey on performance related reward and specifically on annual bonus and long-term incentive design. Our survey was focused on looking in detail at the incentive plan mechanics for different employee groups, including eligibility, target levels, funding, performance measures and measurement levels. The outputs of our research are detailed and meaningful data on how both annual bonus and long-term incentive plans are designed and current market trends.
For more information about the survey, the results of which were supplemented by the findings and conclusions from the Reward Leaders Forum, please contact [...]

The latest event in QCG’s Reward Leaders Forum (RLF) series took place in February 2012 and was focused on international reward practices. The findings and conclusions from this RLF, which have been supplemented with the results of the international rewards survey run by QCG highlight:
• The current trends in expatriate rewards and international rewards more generally
• How rewards can support global mobility and talent management
• The main considerations for setting the level of globally consistency relating to rewards
• The factors involved in determining a global rewards strategy
• The key challenges facing reward professionals working on [...]

QCG launches bi-annual employee satisfaction survey – take part to contribute to the mood of employees as we come out of recession – and you may win a bottle of champagne – participate here: http://surveys.qcg.co.uk/motivation/index.php

Since the banking crisis and the obvious need for deficit reduction along with cuts in public expenditure, there has been a strong and sometimes rabid focus on public sector pay and related aspects of public sector employement.  Few seems to have sympathy for public sector workers – however much they might demand and at times value the services provided, whether that’s locking up offenders, getting one’s kids educated or clinical care / treatment.
No apolgy required for our political leaders or indeed the media bringing focus to the cost and value of public service delivery, but as a few have pointed [...]

QCG launches bi-annual employee satisfaction survey – take part to contribute to the mood of employees as we come out of recession – and you may win a bottle of champagne – participate here: http://surveys.qcg.co.uk/motivation/index.php
QCG’s networking dinner for HRDs will be held in July – contact Anna Cummins, anna@qcg.co.uk, if you are an HRD willing to participate in a lively debate
Are you paying too much by not differentiating remuneration by location in the UK?  To get a copy of QCG’s UK local pay survey to see how you might reduce your paybill by up to 5% to 10%, contact Anna [...]

QCG has a new website – this one!

Welcome to our new blog.  Through these pages we aim to share with you our thoughts on various things that we hear, see and feel that interest us.  Some things will be directly related to our business, our clients perhaps or our daily working experiences.  Other things may be less directly connected but will give insights from just being out there.
Let us start, self indulgently, with QCG – after all it is our blog.  People who deliver results has been our strapline since our creation in 2000.  Now a mid-sized consultancy, we firmly believe that our commitment to our clients’ [...]