Employee Compensation Planning
Compensation Planning: Equal Parts Communication and Change Management
Reshaping an employee compensation program presents the same challenge that TV talk show pioneer Dick Cavett once observed: "It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear."

Unless all employees fully understand new and potential changes to your compensation plan, how each component works, the criteria for incentives, the underlying opportunities for each individual, they simply won't hear. As a result, they typically fail to engage and they fail to change.

Tailored Outreach Drives Implementation Success

The experienced compensation advisors at Sullivan, Cotter and Associates, Inc. can help you put compensation change in context for each employee, an essential step to successfully managing change. Partnering with your internal communications resources, we help:

  • Identify the issues and potential obstacles to compensation changes
  • Define the desired outcomes, building consensus on direction as well as metrics
  • Craft the larger narrative via key messages so that each employee audience understands its role supporting overall organizational success
  • Brand that narrative through images, logos and materials delivered in a planned cascade of ongoing communications to support engagement
  • Provide essential execution resources if required, such as spokesperson and venue selection

Make the Most of Messages

With more than 20 years of experience developing progressive compensation programs for health care and not-for-profit organizations, SullivanCotter can attest: Outcomes are best when clients leverage compensation-related communications as a powerful change management and educational tool. Join the growing ranks of clients who rely on our independent insight to craft the communications essential to managing employee compensation change.