Certified Compensation Professional (CCP®)

To remain agile in today’s workplace, you must formulate a Total Rewards strategy that meets the goals of your organization and the needs of your employees. In this course, you’ll be introduced to WorldatWork’s Total Rewards model and learn how to use it to align your strategy to your organization’s main drivers, resulting in a Total Rewards program that helps recruit, engage and retain top talent.

It’s easy to be overwhelmed by constantly evolving laws and regulations and the challenges of staying fully updated and in compliance when operating across multiple countries. Getting it wrong can mean costly mistakes and legal complications. In this course, you’ll learn a framework to assess rewards implications in diverse regulatory environments and navigate them confidently, whether in a single country or multinational setting. You will gain a deeper understanding of complex labor laws and the skills to navigate them seamlessly, mitigate risk, avoid expensive legal problems, and ensure international compliance. 

The base pay system is the backbone of your entire compensation strategy—without it, your approach to pay is unclear. A poorly designed base pay structure leaves you without the data and confidence to respond to evolving transparency laws and your workforce’s increasing demand for clarity around pay. The stakes are simply too high to overlook the importance of getting your base pay system right. In this course, you’ll delve into the role of base pay in a comprehensive Total Rewards strategy and approaches to crafting, implementing, and assessing a base pay system aimed at attracting and retaining top talent. Additionally, you’ll explore effective methods for job analysis, documentation, evaluation and the development of base pay structures that align with and support your organization’s talent objectives.

A smart approach to variable pay ensures increased employee motivation and higher workforce engagement that delivers extraordinary organizational performance and results. In this course, you’ll learn how to design and manage effective programs for recognition, bonuses, and incentives that meet your organization’s goals by motivating employees to perform their best. 

In today’s data-driven rewards landscape, methods for market pricing are rapidly evolving. Meanwhile, employees and job candidates now have easier access to pay data, raising questions and concerns about fairness and trust in pay rates. Reliable competitive market rates have never been more essential for pay structures, merit increases, promotions, and incentive programs. In this course, you’ll learn the foundations of pricing skills and learn how to incorporate new sources of pay data in your job benchmarking approach. You’ll gain the skills to improve the accuracy of your organization’s pay structures, positioning you to build credibility with management and employees, help your organization reduce turnover and increase engagement, and ensure higher acceptance rates for job offers. 

HR professionals and compensation managers are under increasing pressure to provide evidence-based solutions. As data aggregation technologies and access improve, leadership and employees expect greater accuracy and precision in compensation decisions. However, navigating KPIs, formulas, and success metrics in compensation can be complex and challenging. This course empowers you to master compensation analytics, enabling you to analyze KPIs, set pay rates, develop salary ranges, assess fairness, and ensure compliance using data-driven strategies. It covers everything from gathering, collecting, and analyzing data to making sound compensation and rewards decisions. You’ll master how to use data analysis to craft a compelling narrative that you can share with others in your organization. 

Labor costs are the largest portion of the operating budget in most organizations—which means Total Rewards professionals influence bottom line results in an important way. It's essential for today’s compensation professionals to have a keen understanding of business drivers and an appreciation of the financial realities of their organizations, enabling them to deliver effective and efficient rewards programs. In this course, you’ll gain the finance and accounting skills you need to optimize your organization’s investment in compensation and other Total Rewards. The curriculum includes both Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounting standards and navigating the intersection between rewards and finance.  

In a world where agility is paramount, business priorities shift rapidly, and competition for talent is fierce, Total Rewards professionals must innovate to stay ahead. Many grapple with linking reward programs to business outcomes and effectively communicating their impact. Our course empowers you with the business acumen and relationship-building prowess to craft rewards that fuel organizational success, and the persuasive communication skills to champion their strategic value. Ensure your programs don't just exist, but are understood, valued, and embraced across your organization.