Special 1/2 day HRACI Conference:
Designing Successful Compensation Programs to Attract and Retain the Best and the Brightest!

Who Should Attend:
This seminar is designed for HR professionals, line managers and supervisors, HR financial and payroll personnel, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and members of job evaluation and compensation committees can all benefit from this seminar.

Approved for Credit:
This program has been approved for 2 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI).

Program Overview:
In his energetic and participative two hour presentation, John Rubino will provide the attendees with guidance on which combinations of reward alternatives best fit their organization and, as such, need to be included in their total cash compensation mix. In addition, John will present a pragmatic and comprehensive variable compensation framework, as well as his ‘ten criteria for success’ for designing effective variable plans.

What You Will Learn:
In today’s highly competitive business and labor environment, all organizations are searching for the best way to design their total cash compensation program (base salary plus variable pay), in order to establish a direct link between performance and rewards. To do this, it is imperative that the program be aligned with corporate culture, in sync with business strategies, and tailored to operational realities. What makes this a challenge is that there are many different types of compensation programs that can be designed and implemented: merit pay, skill-based pay, competency-based pay, individual and group incentives, profit sharing, performance sharing, etc.

All in all, the participants will learn which pay strategies are right for their organizations --- all for the purpose of attracting and retaining the best and brightest!

Presenter Biography:
John A. Rubino is President of Rubino Consulting Services (RCS) based in Pound Ridge, New York. His areas of expertise are in the design and implementation of corporate values/objectives and their linkage to human resources strategies, performance-driven incentive plans, sales compensation programs, performance management systems, management training programs, team dynamics, leadership skills, motivational training, and human resources communication programs. Prior to forming his own consulting company, John was senior manager of human resources consulting services for Ernst & Young LLP and director of executive compensation for The Equitable Life Insurance Company. He has also provided a variety of human resources services to organizations in the financial services, manufacturing, and public sectors. An internationally-acclaimed motivational speaker, John is also a course developer and seminar leader for WorldatWork (formerly the American Compensation Association) and the American Management Association. He is the author of two books --Developing Compensation Programs: Job Analysis, Evaluation and Classification and Communicating Compensation Programs: An Approach to Providing Information to Employees. Moreover, John has written a number of articles on human resources and is frequently quoted in professional publications. A Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), Certified Benefits Professional (CBP), and Global Remuneration Professional (GRP), he holds a BA from Wagner College and an MBA from the Lubin Graduate School of Business, Pace University, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from WorldatWork. John is also a current member of Marquis Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in Finance and Industry.

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To recap the 2006 season, the guest CEOs and venues were:
• Brian Roberts of Comcast and Terry McGraw of McGraw-Hill (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania);
• Bob Eckert of Mattel and Bob Kotick of Activision (UCLA);
• Blake Nordstrom of Nordstrom, Inc., and Jim Donald of Starbucks (University of Washington, Seattle);
• Bill Greehey of Valero Energy Corporation and Gary Kelly of Southwest Airlines (University of Texas);
• Bud Selig of Major League Baseball and David Stern of the National Basketball Association (Columbia University);
• Ed Zander of Motorola and Ed Liddy of Allstate (Northwestern University);
• Bob Wright of NBC Universal and Doug Morris of Universal Music Group (Fordham University);
• Ken Lewis of Bank of America and Tom Ryan of CVS (Howard University);
• Gerard Kleisterlee of Royal Philips Electronics and Fred Hassan of Schering-Plough Corporation (Rutgers University); and
• Bill Marriott of Marriott International, Inc. and Robert L. Johnson of The RLJ Companies, Inc. (University of Maryland).

Our plans for 2007 will include efforts to broaden the geographical reach of the program to allow increased participation by more chapters and state councils. We will also strive to increase the amount of notification time before each taping so that volunteer leaders, members and others can attend tapings in local areas. And while we were very pleased with the quality of the programming, we will work with PBS/WTTW to increase the diversity of our guest CEOs.

Once again, thank you for helping us make this SHRM signature program a success. If you have any questions or suggestions about the current program or the upcoming season, please feel free to contact me at smeisinger@shrm.org, 703.535.6001, or Jerry Brown, Director of Public Affairs, at SHRM, jbrown@shrm.org, 703.535.6047.

Best Regards,

Susan R. Meisinger, SPHR
President and CEO