All tagged Leverage

Creating A Motivational Incentive Plan

Beth Carroll

Upside is the amount of pay that a top performer can earn, and downside…well…you can guess that one…it’s how much risk there is on the downside for a poor performer.  Leverage refers to the plan design ratio of the top 10 percent (decile) performer relative the median performer, and dispersion refers to the amount of leverage that a plan actually achieves.  So let’s unpack these one at a time.

Sales Compensation 101 for Logistics

Beth Carroll

…you need to be very careful how you design your incentive plan or you just might end up dealing with some unexpected consequences, and possibly paying out more than you intended, or worse, getting no measurable return (or negative return!) for dollars you are spending.