Level: Senior HR/reward professionals.
Date: 23 June 2026.
Location: Your PC via Zoom.
Duration: 1 day, 9am-4.30pm (UK).
Format: Intensive & highly-participative workshop.
Fed by the latest research findings & recent case studies.
Mix of high-level, confidential discussions.
Individual & groups exercises: application of planning tools & methods provided to your situation.
Fees: £595 + VAT per delegate.
Brochure: Click here
There is great value now in employers and their HR and reward leaders undertaking a speedy but strategic, systematic review of their employment and reward practices, whatever and especially because of the immediate pressures on them.
This focused E-reward workshop is designed to provide a practical framework that our facilitator Duncan Brown identified originally while writing his PhD thesis on the evolution and applications of reward strategy thinking and practice, and has developed and refined over many years of research and consultancy.
Duncan will lead you through a three-phased reward strategy process, so that however tough the immediate reward and resourcing issues you face, you can come up with a coherent and sustainable rewards plan and strategic direction, aligned with your purpose and values, that you can actually deliver into practice with demonstrable impact.
As well as the ‘big picture’ issues externally of the state of the UK and international economy and labour markets, and the impact of the latest and forthcoming employment legislation, and internally of how to align with your business strategy and culture, and the links and overlap with your EVP, Duncan will address the most practical aspects of your reward strategy.
These are all key questions and core aspects of the content of the workshop that you will cover.
Running through each of these reward strategy phases during the day, the focus, after considering some initial key contextual inputs, will be on group discussion of key challenges and solutions; and on you working up your own strategy and actions, initially on the day with the information and tools provided, but then taking that away to develop, detail and apply successfully in your own organisation thereafter.
E-reward’s intensive strategic one-day workshop is targeted at HR and reward leaders and senior professionals who are responsible for strategic reward issues. We are confident that it offers you a unique combination of expert learning and experience sharing with practical action planning.
Live-streamed via Zoom, this reward leaders’ executive workshop is participative and includes a mix of high-level, confidential discussions and activities and exercises that will enable you to reflect on current leading thinking and practice, explore new approaches and plan out your own reward futures. Participants will review contemporary issues in reward, consider their own and relevant case-study situations and experiences, and benefit from Duncan’s extensive reward consulting and research experience.
Led by Dr Duncan Brown and benefitting from the latest research findings, the programme is designed to: <- Provide a confidential and expert retreat to review and discuss the challenges surrounding the development and implementation of your reward strategy, in the context of your business strategy and the current volatile economic, social, political and legal context. - Illustrate how successful reward strategies are developed and delivered in today’s challenging conditions. What do they look like in practice? What priorities do you need to focus on? How do you secure adequate resources for them in the current climate? How do you assess and demonstrate their effectiveness? - Discuss the latest trends and developments in pay and reward thinking and practice, profiling both recent academic research in the field and illustrated with topical current case studies.
Here’s what Duncan says:
‘A big benefit is being forced to step back from daily pressures to think about the key strategic issues of the day and more specifically the lateral integration of reward initiatives with each other and with the rest of the HR strategy – i.e. more than just the vertical alignment with the business strategy. We have often ended up too talking a lot about alignment with culture and values in the organisation.
The other aspect course participants have found most beneficial are the discussions on communications and line managers. Comms was seen as part of a wider move to simplify and demystify rewards to build greater transparency and understanding and more clearly see the links between what the business needs, its values and what employees do and how they are rewarded.
Our last set of course participants were all finding in their very different settings that values-based reward and performance management receive far more traction with employees than traditional objective and results-driven rewards. Hence they were using EVP and employee experience concepts more than traditional total rewards thinking. And financial wellbeing has been raised and discussed extensively in every group I think.
They also liked the emphasis on using reward strategy to prioritise and focus their activity when they have such huge agendas.’
E-reward’s intensive executive programme is targeted at senior HR and reward colleagues who are responsible for strategic reward issues:
There is no exam or qualification awarded.
‘Great course which has provided me with lots of tools and information on reward strategy.’
‘I want to say thank you for a really interesting and useful training session. The material that Duncan put together and his expertise was fantastic. It has definitely given me some ideas about how to manage reward in my organisation and an understanding of how to look at the bigger picture and strategy to keep it aligned. A huge learning experience for me, thank you for putting this together and thank you to Duncan.’
‘I found the course really helpful and gave me a lot to work with. I’ve attended events with Duncan before and he is really engaging and a great facilitator.’
‘Whether you are preparing to form your reward strategy or need to refresh and realign it, this course is a must that will leave you with plenty to consider and inspire to progress.’
‘Very thought provoking and giving a holistic view on reward practices. An interactive masterclass that I would recommend.’
‘If you are procrastinating on developing a coherent approach to reward because of confusion over the questions to ask/pose, this workshop gives you an excellent platform/impetus to take this important issue forward.’
‘A brilliant way of reflecting on and developing your reward strategy and practice.’
‘Really valuable session bringing together loads of thinking in this critical area and lots to go away and think about and put into action.’
‘If you need to gain a deeper and broader understanding of reward strategies and issues then this course is a must.’
‘Great workshop for reward specialists and those with a strategic reward role.’
£595.00 GBP (+ VAT) per delegate.
Each ticket covers attendance for one person only for the duration of this 1-day virtual programme and includes PDF course materials emailed to you in advance of the class.
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This executive class will be facilitated by Dr Duncan Brown, an independent reward researcher and adviser, Senior Associate at the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) and Visiting Professor at University of Greenwich. Duncan is a former employee reward practice leader at Willis Towers Watson, PwC and Aon Hewitt, who spent five years as the Deputy CEO at the CIPD.
He is a highly regarded adviser and writer on reward management, including jointly authoring with Michael Armstrong the best-selling Handbook of Reward Management Practice and Reward Strategy. His doctorate was in reward strategy.
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