Mercer Learning – courses for HR professionals

In challenging times it’s important to take stock and re-evaluate. These courses, designed by our HR experts, are available for a limited time and special price to help you upskill and uplift your knowledge.

Mercer Total Rewards Strategy (TRS) Program

Creating a rewards strategy that differentiates your employee value proposition.

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: Jul 4-5 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 24-25 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

Face to face workshop

Date: Sep 17 2024 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT

Fee: S$1,200 + 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

Face to face workshop

Date: Jul 31 2024 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT

Fee: S$1.200 + 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 3: Strategic talent mobility: Developing global leadership through developmental assignments

Virtual workshop

Date: Nov 5 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT

Fee: S$500 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

Development assignments have been considered a critical part of an organisation’s leadership pipeline. Explore how talent mobility can strategically contribute to the development of future leaders and support new market growth for your organization through development assignment approaches, best practices and trends in today’s post-pandemic world.


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: Aug 27 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.


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