Mercer Learning – courses for HR professionals
Mercer Total Rewards Strategy (TRS) Program
Choose fitting workshops from 5 categories
Workshop registration discount
You may register for any workshops across different programs.
- 4 workshops at 10% discount
- 5 or more workshops at 15% discount
Participants will receive individual certificate of attendance for the completed course.
Program 1: Fixed Pay
Workshop 1: Building the fundamentals of compensation
Face to face workshop
Date: Apr 17 2024 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT
Fee: S$1,200 + 9% GST / person
Virtual workshop
Date: May 30-31, Jul 18-19, Sep 12-13 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT
Fee: S$900 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- Overview of Total Rewards Framework
- Key principles for organizing and structuring compensation elements
- Overview of 3P Compensation concept - Pay for Position, Person and Performance
- Understanding of basic compensation terminologies and the use of survey data
- Compensation Analysis and Review
- Focus on Pay for Position – Overview on Job Evaluation, Grade Structure Design and Salary Structure Design
- Implementation guidelines
Workshop 2: Compensation benchmarking using Excel
Face to face workshop
Date: Aug 15 2024 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT
Fee: S$1,200 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- Explore various algorithm, logical and text operations, sorting and filtering, lookup functions and charting tools in MS Excel used in typical day-to-day compensation benchmarking and management
- Compile and analyse compensation and benefits data from multiple sources
- Determine comparison ratio, pay-mix analysis, minimum and maximum of salary ranges and pay adjustment
Workshop 3: Salary structure and increment matrix
Virtual workshop
Date: May 16-17, Jul 25-26, Sep 5-6 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT
Fee: S$900 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- Understand the mechanics of designing a fit-for-purpose salary structure
- Deep dive into different approaches for planning annual increment budget
- Understand the objectives and rationale for conducting analysis to update compensation plans
- Includes hands-on case studies in salary structure design and development of annual increment matrix
- Designed to supplement theoretical and technical knowledge of grade levelling, and address challenges in implementing pay ranges across levels for attracting and retaining the modern workforce
Workshop 4: Job and career architecture
Virtual workshop
Date: Aug 1-2 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT
Fee: S$950 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- Explore the fundamentals of job analysis and design, alongside the principles of organization grade structure design to support the increasingly diverse career aspirations of employees
Workshop 5: IPE (International Position Evaluation) fundamentals
Face to face workshop
Date: Apr 24 2024 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT
Fee: S$1,200 + 9% GST / person
Virtual workshop
Date: Jun 6-7, Aug 29-30, Oct 17-18 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT
Fee: S$950 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- Understand the differences between a role and a job
- Learn the steps to role analysis
- Fundamentals of job evaluation and principles of conducting evaluation interviews
- Science of Mercer IPE methodology
- Practice exercise of conducting evaluation across all 5 factors and 13 dimensions of IPE
- Overview on applications of job evaluation across HR and organizational processes
Program 2: Pay for performance
Workshop 1: Harnessing a total rewards strategy
Virtual workshop
Date: Sep 26-27 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT
Fee: S$950 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- Explore paradigms for a Total Rewards Strategy, alongside handles on segmentation, to meet the increasingly diverse needs of the workforce
- Connecting Total Rewards strategy with organizational strategy
- Reviewing different components of Total Reward
- Design of Total Rewards Vehicles, Implementation and Communication
- Practical case studies and exercises across implementing Total Rewards components that fit your culture
Workshop 2: Performance management
Virtual workshop
Date: Sep 19-20 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT
Fee: S$950 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- Learn what performance management is and its impact on organization
- Understand the role of performance culture in driving and sustaining performance
- Explore how we define performance that best reflects the organizational needs
- Learn how performance management enables and reinforces the mindset (process and tool design)
- Explore the principles behind defining performance expectations, performance dialogue, and typical linkages to development and rewards
Workshop 3: Short term incentives and variable pay design
Virtual workshop
Date: May 9-10, Nov 7-8 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT
Fee: S$900 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- What is pay for performance, and what are some recent developments?
- Learn what are the different types of variable pay plans
- What are some design steps and considerations when designing your own performance plans?
Workshop 4: Sales incentive plan design
Virtual workshop
Date: Jun 20-21, Oct 3-4 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT
Fee: S$950 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- Learn what is a sales incentive plan and how it is different than other variable pay plans
- Understand details of different plan options and their applicability
- Overview of design process of a sales incentive plan
- Learn about the ten critical decisions to design a sales incentive plan – including key details such as determining eligibility for sales incentive, mix between fixed and variable pay, upside on earning opportunities and selection of right performance measures, etc.
- Latest design trends in sales incentive plans
Workshop 5: Long term incentive plan design
Virtual workshop
Date: Oct 23-24 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT
Fee: S$950 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- Overview of long-term incentives (LTI) and their importance in attracting, motivating, and retaining top talents
- The linkages between incentive and longer-term business performance and strategy
- Different types of LTI: features, advantages and considerations of each type of incentives
- LTI for different growth stages
Program 3: HR analytics
Workshop 1: Getting started with analytics
Virtual workshop
Date: Apr 3-4, Aug 21-22 2024 | 14:00 - 17:00 SGT
Fee: S$950 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- Introduction to the scope of HR analytics and how it benefits the organization
- How to get started with analytics: asking the right questions
- Assessing your HR organisation’s readiness for analytics
- Focusing metrics and analytics efforts to get real business impact
- Understanding data requirements and data gaps
- Uncover insights using data visualizations and telling a story with data
- Harnessing the full potential of HRIS data
Workshop 2: Working with real world HR data
Virtual workshop
Date: Jun 26-27, Nov 20-21 2024 | 14:00 - 17:00 SGT
Fee: S$950 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- Explore various tools and techniques that can help you facilitate data analysis
- Learn how to work with real life data and transform data into usable format before conducting any analysis
- Learn the basics sentiments with analysis
- Understanding how to work and manage missing data
- Learn statistical methods to replace (impute) missing data
- Understand the various forms of textual data available in HR
Program 4: Mobility
Workshop 1: Mobility fundamentals: The what, how and why of international assignments
Virtual workshop
Date: Sep 17-18 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT
Fee: S$900 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
- An introduction to building a global mobility framework, expatriate compensation approaches and components, and market trends.
Workshop 2: Designing local-plus compensation
Virtual workshop
Date: Oct 10-11 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT
Fee: S$900 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
An introduction to Local-Plus markets in Asia, designing a local-plus approach for your organization, and effective localization. This workshop will help you:
- Navigate between the different localization options
- Understand local benefits, social security/pension practices and how they could impact international assignees
- Determine what “plus”, if any, should be added to the host local package and set a consistent approach for local plus packages globally
- Design principles of a consistent global localization or local plus policy that combine fixed core assignment package components and more flexible country specific benefits
Workshop 4: Contextualising diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) for global mobility
Face to face workshop
Date: Jun 11 2024 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT
Fee: S$1.200 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
Companies around the world and in Singapore are paying much greater attention to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), but how can DEIB be incorporated into global mobility? Through this workshop, you will be introduced to key DEIB concepts and trends, and incorporating DEIB in global mobility policies, benefits, and communications through case studies.
Program 5: Benefits
Workshop 1: Getting started with employee benefits
Virtual workshop
Date: Oct 23 2024 | 14:00 - 17:00 SGT
Fee: S$900 + 9% GST / person
Workshop agenda:
The Getting started with employee benefits workshop is designed to help HR professionals learn the what, why and how around designing an effective and comprehensive employee benefits program. This workshop provides a road map to show how a holistic benefits program can help improve the overall employee experience and in turn, support business strategies drive value.
Disclaimer
All details are correct at the time of publishing. Mercer reserves the right to change or cancel any part of its published workshop due to unforeseen circumstances.