Mercer Learning – courses for HR professionals

In challenging times it’s important to take stock and re-evaluate. These courses, designed by our HR experts, are available for a limited time and special price to help you upskill and uplift your knowledge.

Mercer Total Rewards Strategy (TRS) Program

Creating a rewards strategy that differentiates your employee value proposition.

Workshop registration discount

You may register for any workshops across different programs.

  • 4 workshops at 10% discount
  • 5 or more workshops at 15% discount

Participants will receive individual certificate of attendance for the completed course.

Program 1: Fixed Pay

Workshop 1: Building the fundamentals of compensation

Hybrid workshop

Date: Apr 16, Jul 3, and Nov 6 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT

Fee: S$1,260 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Overview of Total Rewards Framework
  • Key principles for organizing and structuring compensation elements
  • Overview of 3P Compensation concept — Pay for position, person and performance
  • Understanding of basic compensation terminologies and the use of survey data
  • Compensation analysis and review
  • Focus on pay for position — Overview on job evaluation, grade structure design and salary structure design
  • Implementation guidelines

Workshop 2: Compensation benchmarking using Excel

Face to face workshop

Date: Aug 14 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT

Fee: S$1,260 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Explore various algorithm, logical and text operations, sorting and filtering, lookup functions and charting tools in MS Excel used in typical day-to-day compensation benchmarking and management
  • Compile and analyse compensation and benefits data from multiple sources
  • Determine comparison ratio, pay-mix analysis, minimum and maximum of salary ranges and pay adjustment

Workshop 3: Salary structure and increment matrix

Hybrid workshop

Date: May 7, Sep 18 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT

Fee: S$1260 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Understand the mechanics of designing a fit-for-purpose salary structure
  • Deep dive into different approaches for planning annual increment budget
  • Understand the objectives and rationale for conducting analysis to update compensation plans
  • Includes hands-on case studies in salary structure design and development of annual increment matrix
  • Designed to supplement theoretical and technical knowledge of grade levelling, and address challenges in implementing pay ranges across levels for attracting and retaining the modern workforce

Workshop 4: Job and career architecture

Hybrid workshop

Date: Aug 21 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT

Fee: S$1260 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Explore the fundamentals of job analysis and design, alongside the principles of organization grade structure design to support the increasingly diverse career aspirations of employees

Workshop 5: IPE (International Position Evaluation) fundamentals

Hybrid workshop

Date: Apr 24, Jul 17, Oct 9 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT

Fee: S$1260 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Understand the differences between a role and a job
  • Learn the steps to role analysis
  • Fundamentals of job evaluation and principles of conducting evaluation interviews
  • Science of Mercer IPE methodology
  • Practice exercise of conducting evaluation across all 5 factors and 13 dimensions of IPE
  • Overview on applications of job evaluation across HR and organizational processes

Program 2: Pay for performance

Workshop 1: Harnessing a total rewards strategy

Hybrid workshop

Date: Sep 4 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT

Fee: S$1260 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Explore paradigms for a Total Rewards Strategy, alongside handles on segmentation, to meet the increasingly diverse needs of the workforce
  • Connecting Total Rewards strategy with organizational strategy
  • Reviewing different components of Total Reward
  • Design of Total Rewards Vehicles, Implementation and Communication
  • Practical case studies and exercises across implementing Total Rewards components that fit your culture

Workshop 2: Performance management

Hybrid workshop

Date: Oct 2 2025 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT

Fee: S$1260 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Learn what performance management is and its impact on organization
  • Understand the role of performance culture in driving and sustaining performance
  • Explore how we define performance that best reflects the organizational needs
  • Learn how performance management enables and reinforces the mindset (process and tool design)
  • Explore the principles behind defining performance expectations, performance dialogue, and typical linkages to development and rewards

Workshop 3: Short term incentives and variable pay design

Hybrid workshop

Date: May 28, Nov 20 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT

Fee: S$12600 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • What is pay for performance, and what are some recent developments?
  • Learn what are the different types of variable pay plans
  • What are some design steps and considerations when designing your own performance plans?

Workshop 4: Sales incentive plan design

Hybrid workshop

Date: Jun 19 2025 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT

Fee: S$1260 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Learn what is a sales incentive plan and how it is different than other variable pay plans
  • Understand details of different plan options and their applicability
  • Overview of design process of a sales incentive plan
  • Learn about the ten critical decisions to design a sales incentive plan – including key details such as determining eligibility for sales incentive, mix between fixed and variable pay, upside on earning opportunities and selection of right performance measures, etc.
  • Latest design trends in sales incentive plans

Workshop 5: Long term incentive plan design

Hybrid workshop

Date: Oct 30 2025 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT

Fee: S$1260 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Overview of long-term incentives (LTI) and their importance in attracting, motivating, and retaining top talents
  • The linkages between incentive and longer-term business performance and strategy
  • Different types of LTI: features, advantages and considerations of each type of incentives
  • LTI for different growth stages

Program 3: HR analytics

Workshop 1: The art of data: Visualizing with BI tools

Face to face workshop

Date: Aug 19 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT

Fee: S$1260 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Engage with a real-life dataset to enhance practical understanding
  • Discover various tools and techniques that can help you facilitate data analysis
  • Learn the art of effective data visualization focusing on color usage, graph placements and chart selection
  • Understand strategies for handling missing data, including statistical methods for data imputation
  • Identify outliers in your data and explore techniques for addressing them
  • Learn best practices for identifying and managing duplicate entries
  • Dive into various chart types available in Power BI and understand their optimal use cases
  • Gain insights into theoretical concepts surrounding predictive analytics and its applications

Workshop 2: Visualize and predict: R workshop for HR professionals

Face to face workshop

Date: Jun 26 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 SGT

Fee: S$1260 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Engage with authentic datasets to deepen your practical understanding of data analysis
  • Engage in hands-on practice with basic coding to build your foundational skills
  • Explore effective methods for managing missing data, identifying outliers and managing duplicate entries to maintain data integrity
  • Gain proficiency in using aggregate functions such as Group By, Sum and Average to summarize and analyze data
  • Learn how to create fundamental charts in R to visualize your data effectively
  • Explore different types of regression such as linear regression, logistic regression, and decision trees and their applications in HR-related scenarios to enhance predictive insights

Program 4: Managing Change

Workshop 1: Leading through Change: Unlocking Potential in People Management

Face to face workshop

Date: Jun 18, Sep 18 2025 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT

Fee: S$900 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Explore paradigms for how change is processed on an individual, team and organization level
  • Understand change and resistance in the macro-sociocultural contexts that organizations operate in
  • Learn practical strategies for how people managers can navigate difficult conversations while guiding employees in their “span of care”
  • Learn the most critical roles that People Managers play in the context of organizational change, that will determine the success/failure of any change
  • Gain access to practical tools and hands-on exercises, with immediate review and share back for real-world application

Workshop 2: HR Change Architects: HR Business Partners as Change Leaders

Face to face workshop

Date: Jun 25, Aug 6 2025 | 09:00 - 12:00 SGT

Fee: S$900 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

  • Explore paradigms for how change is processed on an individual, team and organization level
  • Learn the 5 critical enterprise change levers that HR Business Partners and leaders can pull, to guide your organization towards successful change that feels natural to impacted individuals
  • Learn how to map the impact of change and change readiness of your organization, as well as interventions you can introduce to manage change
  • Gain access to practical tools and hands-on exercises, with immediate review and share back for real-world application

Program 5: Benefits

Workshop 1: Getting started with employee benefits

Virtual workshop

Date: Oct 23 2025 | 14:00 - 17:00 SGT

Fee: S$900 + 9% GST / person

Workshop agenda:

The Getting started with employee benefits workshop is designed to help HR professionals learn the what, why and how around designing an effective and comprehensive employee benefits program. This workshop provides a road map to show how a holistic benefits program can help improve the overall employee experience and in turn, support business strategies drive value.

Disclaimer

All details are correct at the time of publishing. Mercer reserves the right to change or cancel any part of its published workshop due to unforeseen circumstances.


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