Deirdre Chong Smith | SpeakerHub

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Deirdre Chong Smith is a Principal consultant leading the Toronto team in LifeWork™ Canadian Compensation Practice. She works with clients on various projects related to reward programs and specializes in the interpretation of compensation information to provide solutions for compensation related issues, and, using that information to add valuable insights for clients. Her expertise is in assisting organizations comply with pay equity legislation, job analysis & evaluation, market reviews, incentive plan design and looking to compensation data as a diagnostic tool in diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives.

Current position (1)

Principal Consultant

LifeWorks

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Presentations (5)

Pay Equity

All presentations customized to audience, topics include: understanding pay equity at various levels/jurisdictions, steps to compliance, how to maintain pay equity, analysis guidance, posting requirements, outcomes from being found not in compliance and how to rectify and more. Case studies available.

Total Rewards

All presentations customized to audience, topics will generically cover: How to link business strategy to compensation strategy, and where total rewards needs to partner with the broader organization to be effective.

Job Descriptions

All presentations customized to audience, topics will generically cover: best practices in job description writing, case studies of some pitfalls that occur, methods to streamline job description writing, how to get the most out of a single document.

Job Evaluation

All presentations customized to audience, topics will generically cover: how job evaluation is a about understanding work, and point factor systems and all other systems are ways to articulate that. How to get value from your job evaluation system and maintain it over time.

Pay for Performance

All presentations customized to audience, topics will generically cover: what pay for performance can be, such as merit, or bonuses (short, mid and long term) and how to best design incentive programs to reward the behaviours/objectives that the business needs. Control mechanisms, board wants and industry practices also may be covered.

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HRPA competencies

Core Competencies (Primary)

Total Rewards

Core Competencies (Secondary)

Strategy

Professional Practice

HR Metrics

Workforce Planning & Talent Management