HOW TO DESIGN AN EFFECTIVE ANNUAL INCENTIVE PLAN THAT SUPPORTS LONG-TERM VALUE CREATION
Entrepreneurial leaders are often frustrated that their annual incentive plans have become entitlements that don’t change employee behavior and don’t drive incremental long-term value to the business.
The challenge is how to engage in a process to design and implement a new Incentive Plan that can better help the organization further engage their employees to reach their full, untapped potential while building long-term company value. In our ProfitWorks presentation we will discuss our proven process teaching companies how to:
- Design incentive plans that are simple to explain, understand and administer.
- Ensure their new incentive plan is self-funded and that the employee-owners are active participants in finding incremental profit to fund their plan. With this, the payouts from the incentive plan are earned compensation and not an entitlement.
- Support the program across the organization with communication, scorecards, and business education.
- Use the incentive plan and education training to help improve employee engagement and retention.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the philosophy and science behind using an incentive plan as an important tension tool to drive performance in your organization
- Learn how to design an incentive plan that is simple to explain, understand, and administer, and that is self-funded
- Learn tools to help link work activities more strongly to the incentive plan and overall business performance
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Who Should Attend?
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Private Business Owners
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Business Owners
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CPAs/Accountants
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Financial Advisors
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Family Business Advisors
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Professional Advisors
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Other Professional Advisors
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ABOUT THE PRESENTER
The product of an entrepreneurial household, Alex has spent much of his business experience focused on his passion for being a Hero to Entrepreneurs. Between selling handmade James Dean t-shirts out of his locker in high school, to becoming an Expert EOS Implementer®, he ran or helped run, four growing businesses.
One of the four businesses was ProfitWorks which he co-founded in 1996 to help companies create cultures of employees who think and act like owners. In 2020 during the pandemic, he took time to co-author the book "Profit Works: Unravel the Complexity of Incentive Plans to Increase Employee Productivity, Cultivate an Engaged Workforce, and Maximize Your Company's Potential" to help entrepreneurs simplify the topic of incentive plans.