By following the proven 13-step process detailed in this book, you'll learn how to create different pay strategies for the three main team types in use today: parallel teams, process teams, and project- or time-based teams; determine base pay for team members; align the key components of additional compensation for teams: increases in base pay (merit raises), recognition awards (both cash and noncash), and incentive compensation; win "buy-in" by allaying members' fears and helping them accept risk; identify the 21 competencies vital to team success and develop a competency model specific to your organization's needs and culture; adapt existing appraisal systems to measure team performance; and combine these elements into a "compensation architecture" that is flexible, yet solid and enduring

#1 New York Times Bestseller Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth—and how it can help any organization thrive. In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They'd have to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progress—to measure what mattered. Doerr taught them about a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results. He had first discovered OKRs in the 1970s as an engineer at Intel, where the legendary Andy Grove ("the greatest manager of his or any era") drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove's brainchild with more than fifty companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked. In this goal-setting system, objectives define what we seek to achieve; key results are how those top-priority goals will be attained with specific, measurable actions within a set time frame. Everyone's goals, from entry level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization. The benefits are profound. OKRs surface an organization's most important work. They focus effort and foster coordination. They keep employees on track. They link objectives across silos to unify and strengthen the entire company. Along the way, OKRs enhance workplace satisfaction and boost retention. In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

This paper considers the role of stock-based compensation, such as restricted stock grants and stock options, in mitigating the moral hazard problem in teams in which agents who face the possibility of turnover must choose a level of effort or investment within working relationships with the other agents. We formally derive results in which stock-based compensation is a component of an optimal compensation contract, and in particular, in which stock-based compensation is superior to cash-based compensation such as bonuses and severance payments. We also show that stock-based compensation is not optimal in individual production. The results also provide new empirical and practical implications for stock-based compensation from the viewpoint of team incentives and job turnover.

Transform your real estate business into a sales powerhouse In The High-Performing Real Estate Team, experienced real estate coach Brian Icenhower shares the systems and secrets of top real estate agents and brokerages. The book offers actionable systems and processes that can be immediately implemented to take you, your fellow agents, and your team or brokerage to the next level. Focusing on the 20% of activities that drive expansion, this book shows you how to create renewed enthusiasm, productivity, engagement, and exponential growth at your real estate team. With this book, you will: Discover how to create a viral goal that spreads throughout your team and drives change Learn to focus on core activities that result in the majority of your growth and productivity Cultivate personal responsibility with public accountability and accelerate growth with a custom team dashboard that measures metrics for success Written for real estate agents, teams, brokerages and franchise owners, The High-Performing Real Estate Team is an indispensable resource that will guide you toward growth while providing you with the resources and downloadable materials to reach your goals faster.

This report examines the evidence and issues relating to team working and team pay, with particular reference to white-collar employees. Flatter organizational structures, multi-skilling for flexibility and pressures for improved quality and cost reductions all create the conditions for greater team working. Are concepts of team pay following? Here is a discussion of what constitutes a team and how performance pay schemes have been adopted or adapted for teams. It concludes with the issues employers should address when developing team working and pay.