Human ResourcesCompensation and Benefits: Unlocking Total Rewards
Reward decides who joins, who stays and what people believe the organisation values, and it is usually the largest single cost on the income statement. This course covers the full reward picture: job evaluation and grading, pay structures and ranges, benchmarking against a market, variable pay and incentive design, benefits and their real cost, and the total reward statement that makes the whole package visible to employees. Delegates work with real pay data throughout, building a grading structure and modelling the cost of a pay review. The programme also addresses pay equity and the growing disclosure expectations around it, and the practical problem of communicating reward to people who only see the number at the bottom of the payslip.
Course objectives
- Evaluate and grade jobs using a defensible methodology
- Design pay structures, ranges and progression rules that hold together
- Benchmark pay against a relevant market and interpret survey data critically
- Design variable pay and incentives that drive the behaviour actually intended
- Cost benefits accurately and assess what employees genuinely value
- Analyse pay equity and prepare for disclosure expectations
- Model the cost of a pay review and present the options to an executive
- Communicate total reward so employees understand what they receive
Who should attend
- Reward, compensation and benefits specialists
- Human resources business partners and human resources managers
- Payroll and human resources operations professionals
- Finance staff working on employment cost
- Practitioners taking on reward for the first time
Course outline
- 01What reward is for, and the cost it represents on the income statement
- 02Job evaluation and grading: methods, defensibility and common failures
- 03Pay structures, ranges, midpoints and progression
- 04Benchmarking: choosing a comparator market and reading survey data critically
- 05Variable pay and incentive design, and the behaviour incentives actually produce
- 06Benefits: real cost, perceived value and the gap between the two
- 07Pay equity analysis and the direction of disclosure requirements
- 08Modelling a pay review and presenting options to an executive
- 09Total reward statements and communicating the full package
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 7 September 2026 | Kigali, Rwanda | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 21 to 25 September 2026 | Gaborone, Botswana | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 27 September to 1 October 2026 | Pretoria, South Africa | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 25 to 29 October 2026 | Durban, South Africa | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 6 to 10 December 2026 | Mbabane, Eswatini | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |