The Region’s Premier Annual Compensation and Benefits Event – Since 1996. Total Rewards in Times of Growth: The Engagement and Retention Challenge. The 18th annual Compensation and Benefits Forum brings on the challenge of engagement and retention to centre stage with a programme engineered to give you insights into how organisations are addressing this challenge and how you can too.
Q-Factor HISPOL Quiz-6th April 2024, Quiz Club NITW
Compensation And Benefits Forum 2014
1. 8 – 12 June 2014 | The Address Hotel | Dubai Mall | Dubai | UAE
#TotalRewardsME
The Region’s Premier Annual Compensation and Benefits Event – Since 1996
PRESENTING A SENIOR PANEL OF INTERNATIONAL AND
REGIONAL REWARDS EXPERTS
Total Rewards in
Times of Growth:
The Engagement and
Retention Challenge
Vodafone UK
Siemens
Paul Bissell
Head of Reward
Karen Gaynor
Head of Rewards - UK
and North-West Europe
Hewlett-Packard
Du
Lorna MacMillan
Total Rewards Manager Mediterranean and MEA
Ramakrishna Krovvidi,
SVP - Organisation
Development
Maersk Oil
Serco
Shawn Cramer
Head of Compensation,
Benefits & HRIS
Rebecca Jeffs
Head of Talent and
Reward
Hilton
MTN
Julia Miller
Director Compensation &
Benefits MEA
Loshen Naidu
Senior Manager - Group
Compensation & Benefits
JOIN OVER 100 REWARD PROFESSIONALS TO:
GE
Noor Investment
Hear how HP has introduced flexible benefits in the
Middle East and how this can help you finally gauge its
success in the region
Align your total rewards to the imperatives of
employee retention and engagement so that you
remain competitive
Learn how leading organisations are managing rising
allowances, sales compensation and executive
remuneration to keep costs under control
Benchmark your own compensation practices against
those of top employers in the region and industry peers
Engage in a live debate with reward experts on the
latest trends in the compensation in the region like
flexible benefits, cost of living allowance, force rankings
and more
Network with the largest number of reward
professionals in the Middle East to exchange insights
and best practice
Paul Johnstone
Compensation & Benefits
Manager, MEA
Nisheeth Pathak
Head of Rewards
18 Years of
Total Rewards
Thought Leadership
From The Organisers Of
Support Sponsor
PLUS
GAIN PRACTICAL TOOLS AND TACTICS FROM
3 RETENTION FOCUSED WORKSHOPS
Sunday 8 June
The Pay for Performance Boot Camp
Wednesday 11 June
Designing Incentive Plans and Commission Schemes for
Your Sales Force
Thursday 12 June
Designing Long Term Incentive Plans for Top Executives
Led by
Robert Mosley
Global Remuneration Expert
More details inside
Powered By
an informa event
www.iirme.com/compensation
3. Event at a Glance / Pre Forum Workshop
Venue
AT A GLANCE SCHEDULE
The Address Dubai Mall
Dubai | UAE
Sunday 8 June
Pre Forum Workshop
A
(Pay-For-Performance)
Monday 9 June
Tuesday 10 June
18th Compensation and
Benefits Forum
Wednesday 11 June
Thursday 12 June
Post Forum Workshop
Post Forum Workshop
(Sales Incentive
Plans)
(Long-Term Incentive
Plans)
B
C
This has been an excellent conference, well worth our time and
money. I have learned some new things and made some valuable
contacts
Michelle Johnson, Head of Talent & Reward, Serco Middle
Pre Forum Workshop
08.00
08.30
10.30
10.45
Sunday 8 June 2014
Registration and Morning Coffee
Workshop Starts
Morning Coffee And Networking Break
Workshop Continues
12.30
12.50
14.30
14.35
Afternoon Coffee And Networking Break
Workshop Continues
Workshop Closes
Networking Lunch
The Pay-For-Performance Boot Camp
An Essential Refresher on Key C&B Skills and Best Practice to Prepare for Business Growth, Encourage Performance,
Motivate and Retain Key Talent
With many markets in the region gearing up for business growth, many employers are facing a challenge of aligning compensation
and benefits practices with business strategies. Uncontrolled business growth poses a new set of risks and challenges that rewards
professionals have to plan and prepare for to avoid the pitfalls of pre-recession practices.
This boot camp will enable you to re-equip yourself with key C&B skills and get a better understanding of the latest best-practice
approaches for key compensation and reward practices geared towards pay-for-performance.
Workshop Outline
• Managing performance ratings and performance distribution
curves: current best-practice
§§ Approaches to performance appraisal rating scales
§§ Using forced distribution curves of appraisal ratings
§§ Understanding and managing the “snap-ratio”
§§ Adjusting the distribution curve of employee ratings to reflect
company results
• Managing the annual merit-pay review process and linking pay
reviews with performance
• Conducting and managing the annual pay review process (both
fixed-pay and merit-pay)
• Linking merit-pay and annual pay reviews to individual employee
performance
• Rewarding performance within basic salary increases and merit
pay reviews
• Rainbow curves to manage pay-for-performance and using an
advanced merit-matrix
• Balancing the annual pay review budget
• Managing retention programmes to retain top performers
• What is a retention programme in both a risk and non-risk
context?
• Why have retention plans linked to talent management and key
employee plans?
• Identifying the most appropriate retention schemes for your
company
• Types of retention plans and the typical costs of retention
schemes
• Using various 9-box techniques for identifying talent and key
retention employees
• Linking pay-for-performance with talent management into
3-year retention plans
Your Workshop Leader
Robert Mosley
Global Remuneration Expert and Consultant
Former SVP Human Resources, Emirates Group
Robert Mosley is widely recognised as a leading global expert on compensation and benefits. He worked as a Principal
Consultant with the HAY Group in the UK and the UAE for 6 years. After which he joined the Emirates Group where he
was for 13 years, eventually becoming the SVP Human Resources. He later went on to Qatar Airways in the same role.
Now he spends most of his time in the Middle East offering an expert range of services and solutions on all HR and
compensation and benefits issues.
3
+971 4 335 2437
+971 4 335 2438
register@iirme.com
www.iirme.com/compensation
4. Forum Day One
Monday, 9 June 2014
08.30
Registration and Morning Coffee
08.55
11.45
Opening Remarks from the Chair
• How communication campaigns can help improve
organisational perception, drive adoption and
engagement in reward programs
Robert Mosley, Global Remuneration Expert and
Consultant, Former SVP Human Resources, Emirates
Group
09.00
Perception is Reality: Communicating Rewards For
Benefits Engagement and Staff Motivation
• Building your communication strategy around the
importance, scope and strength of your benefits
offerings
Interactive Polling Session - Live Statistics Generated By
The Audience
Setting the tone for the rest of the agenda, this session
will help you put matters in perspective and generate data
and statistics to support your compensation and benefits
practices.
09.15
• Key ingredients that produce a communication
strategy to engage your diverse workforce
Harmonising Total Rewards and Talent Management to
Drive Business Growth
• Dissecting the link between a talent management
strategy and the overall business strategy and
embedding growth objectives into your architecture
• Integrating stand-alone reward programmes with key
talent management programmes for better alignment
• Demonstrating how compensation can be linked
to career mapping, strategic talent acquisition and
organisational design
Paul Bissell, Head of Reward, Vodafone UK
Shawn Cramer, Head of Compensation, Benefits & HRIS,
Maersk Oil Qatar
09.45
• Utilising technology to deliver cost-effective
communication
12.30
• Demonstrating the benefits of compensation
analytics like saving money and exposing risks
• Understanding and selecting market data sources and
job matching
• Analysing your compensation effective by converting
raw data from various sources into decision-making
insights
13.00
Networking Lunch
14.00
Retaining Executives: How Remuneration Should Drive
Retention in Times of Growth
• Planning long-term reward plans and performancebased remuneration for top executives
• Regional approaches to designing executive pay
packages where data is scarce
• Managing expectations and setting performance
targets for senior employees
Interactive Roundtable Discussions
This interactive session divides the audience into 3-4
groups, each representing an industry and / or a hot
topic ranging from employee retention to recognition
and engagement. Delegates are given the opportunity to
vote on what topics to be discussed. Each roundtable is
tasked to come up with three practical strategies related
to their topic and/or industry. Discussion will go on for 25
minutes and then each moderator will present his or her
table findings.
Ramakrishna Krovvidi, Senior Vice President Organisation Development, du
10.20
Meeting Accelerator – A Structured Networking Session
Afternoon Coffee And Networking Break
Driving Engagement Through Structured Non-Cash
Recognition Programmes
• Exploring key recognition trends and tools to inspire
and engage employees
Morning Coffee And Networking Break
11.00
15.10
15.30
This unique facilitated session will give you the
opportunity to shake hands with your peers from
companies representing different sectors in the region.
Bring a lot of business cards.
10.30
The For-It or Against-It Panel: Debating The Latest
Trends in C&B
A panel discussion made up of the forum speakers
debating the latest trends in C&B and making the case for
their stance. The debate will also be open to the audience
to vote. Some of the trends up for debate are:
• Flexible Benefits in the Middle East
• Cost of Living (COL) or Composite Allowance: a move
to single-allowance approach
• Forced Performance Rankings and Differentiated Pay
• No-Rating Performance Management: Performance
Conversations
• Leveraging peer-to-peer and social recognition: could
there be more efficient alternatives to traditional
recognition programmes?
• How to prove ROI of recognition programmes:
understanding baselines, metrics and target
audiences
Rebecca Jeffs, Head of Talent and Reward, Serco
16.10
• How to address diverse cultures and needs of
employees and measure programme engagement
levels
• Ensuring ROI: linking wellness programmes to
overall healthcare spend, productivity and employee
engagement
Paul Johnstone, Compensation & Benefits Manager, MEA,
GE
Kafa Al Tamimi, Head of Compensation and Benefits,
Masdar
4
+971 4 335 2437
+971 4 335 2438
Employee Wellness Initiatives: Do They Pay Off?
• Overview of the development of employee wellness
programmes – the rationale and links to total rewards
Lorna MacMillan, Total Rewards Manager - Mediterranean
and MEA, Hewlett-Packard UK
Sandrine Bardot, Total Rewards Expert , Former SVP
Performance & Reward, Mubadala
Strategic Analytics: Health Check of Your Compensation
Strategies
Nisheeth Pathak, Head of Rewards, Noor Investment
Group
16.40
Closing Remarks From the Chair
register@iirme.com
www.iirme.com/compensation
5. Forum Day Two
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
08.30
Registration And Morning Coffee
11.50
08.55
Opening Remarks From The Chair
Robert Mosley, Global Remuneration Expert and
Consultant, Former SVP Human Resources, Emirates
Group
09.00
Total Rewards and the Employer Value Proposition: A Two
Dimensional Perspective
• Understanding the strategic value of a strong
employer value proposition
• How to define value and what models to use to achieve
a growth ‘culture’ the attracts and retain staff
• How a better EVP can impact employee satisfaction
and in return increase engagement and reduce
benefits costs
Julia Miller, Director Compensation & Benefits MEA, Hilton
Insights into the Best Medical Insurance Scheme
Designed by Medstar
Drawing upon 16 years of designing and managing
medical insurance schemes for companies in the Middle
East, Robin will be offering a personal view on what
makes a successful and sustainable group medical
insurance scheme, using on a real-life company in the UAE
as case study.
• Designing excellence into the scheme from the outset
- how you can ensure a great programme by following
a simple step-by-step process
• The 6 common mistakes to be avoided
• Essential learning for everyone engaged in this aspect
of benefits design
Robin Wells, Regional Manager, Middle East and Asia,
Medstar Insurance
Networking Lunch
13.30
Panel Discussion
How Can Reward Help to Retain and Engage Talent in this
Business Climate?
• Are pay and benefits still the main motivators for staff
retention?
• Which reward policies and programmes are directly
associated with employee engagement and which
score higher?
• The correlation between spend and engagement
levels: do you have to invest more to achieve a more
engaged workforce?
• How do you maintain an attractive benefits package in
a competitive environment?
Yasser Galal, Head of Compensation & Benefits, Middle
East, Novartis
Ishak Majeed, Senior Manager - Compensation &
Benefits, Emaar Hospitality Group
Jaz Chuhan, HR Expert – C&B and Talent Management,
Bayer
Emma El-Karout, Group Head of Human Resources, Etoile
Group
14.15
Global Talent for Global Growth: Managing Mobility and
Rewards
• Exploring the different structures for expatriate pay:
pros and cons and when to choose which
• Managing the balance between temporary
assignments pay and flexibility for reintegration into
home salary schemes
Daniel Sickora, Director of Remuneration, Jumeirah Group
15.00
Afternoon Coffee And Networking Break
15.30
Designing a Reward Mix for Retaining Your National
Workforce
• Understating the influencers in retaining nationals in
the private sector beyond pay and financial rewards
• Adapting your retention schemes to nationals’
expectations and aspirations with innovative benefits
and recognition programmes
• What can C&B do to support nationalisation drives
nationals in the private sector
Sandrine Bardot, Total Rewards Expert , Former SVP
Performance & Reward, Mubadala
16.10
Realigning Sales Incentive Plans (SIPs) with Business and
Market Growth Strategies
• Translating your sales targets into sales incentive
plans that support your company's go-to-market
strategy
• Examine job design and performance measures for
different sales roles and layers
• Designing commission plans and incentive tools
for your sales force that keep them motivated and
engaged
Closing Remarks From the Chair
Optimising Your Pay and Rewards Structures: Are You
Spending Where It Matters?
• Understand employee preferences in the context of
emerging trends and relative positioning in respect to
careers
• Evaluating the effectiveness of each reward element
and reviewing alignment with business strategy and
employee needs
• Highlighting any disconnect between what employees
value and what the company is focused on
Loshen Naidu, Senior Manager - Group Compensation &
Benefits, MTN
10.20
12.30
16.40
09.40
Introducing Flexible Benefits in the Middle East: An HP
Case Study
• How flexible benefits can bring competitive advantage,
key differentiators in retaining talent and better value
perception
• Why you should give your people a ‘choice’ –
overcoming the trust challenge
• Can you drive benefits costs down by implementing a
flexible benefits approach?
• Overcoming challenges in transitioning into a flexible
benefits approach – internal culture, finance and legal
Asraa Habib, Total Rewards Consultant - MEMA, HewlettPackard
10.40
Morning Coffee And Networking Break
11.10
Pay for Performance: Aligning Performance Management
Systems with Total Rewards
• Ensuring alignment between employee performance
goal-setting and rewards
• Understanding contribution to long-term retention
and higher business performance
• Striking the balance of fixed vs. variable pay for
performance differentiation
• Using pay-for-performance as a differentiation and
engagement tool
Karen Gaynor, Head of Rewards - UK and North-West
Europe, Siemens
BOOK BEFORE
2 0 MARCH 2 0 1 4
AND SAVE BIG
5
+971 4 335 2437
+971 4 335 2438
register@iirme.com
www.iirme.com/compensation
6. Post Forum Workshops Wednesday 11 – Thursday 12 June 2014
08.00
08.30
10.30
10.45
Registration and Morning Coffee
Workshop Starts
Morning Coffee And Networking Break
Workshop Continues
12.30
12.50
14.30
14.35
Afternoon Coffee And Networking Break
Workshop Continues
Workshop Closes
Networking Lunch
Wednesday 11 June 2014
Thursday 12 June 2014
Designing Incentive Plans and
Commission Schemes for
the Sales Force
Designing Long Term Incentive Plans
(LTIPs) for Top Executives
Incentivise, Motivate and Retain Your Sales Team
Encourage Performance, and Motivate and Retain Key Executives
Business growth is directly linked to the organisation’s ability to
maximize sales results, drive sales ROI and reach the next level.
This workshop will enable you to design and deliver effective
sales incentive plans (SIPs) and commission schemes to attract,
motivate and incentivise your sales staff, and get a better
understanding of the latest best-practice approaches for SIPs that
are geared towards pay-for-performance.
Senior management and executives tend to be the most mobile
during times of growth and recovery. Retaining your executives
is one of the key differentiators in the future of the business. This
workshop will enable you to design and deliver effective long term
incentive plans (LTIPs) to attract, motivate, incentivise and retain
your key top Executives and Senior Management, and get a better
understanding of the latest best-practice approaches for LTIPs.
Workshop Outline
Workshop Outline
• Introduction to Sales Incentives Programmes (SIPs)
• Understanding the different types of sales employees : hunters,
farmers, gatherers and supporters
• Managing the risk-reward ratio and understanding employee
motivational psychology
• Managing the mixture of fixed pay versus variable pay within
the total cash package
• Setting performance targets, bonus and incentive payment
levels
• Expressing SIPs as a “percentage commission” scheme
• Designing scheme rules and terms-sheets for SIPs
• Managing the payment process for SIPs: timing and deferral
• Implementing an end-of-year “true-up” process for monthly or
quarterly SIPs
• The role of the Remuneration Committee (RemCo)
• Introduction to LTIPs and types of LTIPs
• Understanding and managing the key fulcrum points for
designing LTIPs:
§§ Setting the “threshold” or “minimum” level
§§ Setting the “on-target” or “100%” level
§§ Setting the “stretch” or “ceiling” level
• Why are all LTIP awards expressed and communicated at the
“stretch” level?
• Understanding the impact of LTIP awards on share dilution (the
10-10 rule)
• Other critical elements of “Executive Compensation” plans
• Other deferral schemes for retaining C-Suite Executives
(including Provident schemes)
Your Workshop Leader
Robert Mosley
Global Remuneration Expert and Consultant
Former SVP Human Resources, Emirates Group
Robert Mosley is widely recognised as a leading global expert on compensation and benefits. He worked as a Principal
Consultant with the HAY Group in the UK and the UAE for 6 years. After which he joined the Emirates Group where he
was for 13 years, eventually becoming the SVP Human Resources. He later went on to Qatar Airways in the same role.
Now he spends most of his time in the Middle East offering an expert range of services and solutions on all HR and
compensation and benefits issues.
Excellent trainer, very knowledgeable, a
true guru on reward in the GCC.
Suchita Shroff, British Council, Oman
6
+971 4 335 2437
+971 4 335 2438
Robert is an excellent trainer. Robert
brought lots of examples from various
companies and brilliantly mixed knowledge
with his great experience.
Sukaina Al Essa, Bank Dhofar Al Oman Al Fransi
register@iirme.com
www.iirme.com/compensation
7. Sponsorship
Support Sponsor
Medstar Insurance (‘Medstar’) are the MENA region's leading specialist in employee benefits insurances
- meaning they design and manage medical, life and pension schemes for top level companies. Medstar
have significant experience in this field, and a blue-chip client base across the Middle East region.
Sponsorship Opportunities
For 18 years, the Forum has been the hub that brings the
compensation, reward and employee benefits community in the
Middle East together to network and learn. If you provide solutions
or services that could help the community face the challenges of
retention and engagement, this is THE event to be associated with
Position yourself as a market leader in the field of employee
compensation and benefits and meet top decision makers in the
discipline. Our customised sponsorship packages are designed to
give your brand targeted exposure and increase your client base with
targeted speaking and networking opportunities.
As business conference experts we know how to best use events
to promote, develop and generate business for you. We offer a range
of tailored packages. If you have any questions, whether general or
specific, we would be happy to help you to answer them.
èè Generate high value sales leads in the region’s top organisations
èè Launch and promote new products to the HR and C&B directors
èè Build loyalty with your clients’ key decision makers
èè Position your company as leading the sector in front of an
influential audience
èè Broker new contracts and business partnerships
To find out more on how the forum can help you with your marketing
strategy, contact Faariss Khalil on +971 4 4072516 or sponsorship@
iirme.com for further details.
Our Leading HR Events
Powered By
www.theHRobserver.com
7
+971 4 335 2437
@theHRobserver
+971 4 335 2438
register@iirme.com
facebook.com/theHRobserver
www.iirme.com/compensation