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Journal Article
08/25/2025
So we set out to quantify how common performance measures that we see in company executive incentive plans actually related to stock market performance over the last five years.
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Workspan Magazine
11/23/2021
Working with management, boards have to sort through all of the noise — opinions, ideas and information — and make rational, informed decisions about how to set priorities, allocate resources and make investments.
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Research
01/30/2025
You can download a graphic report of findings, a summary analysis of the trends or a short quiz that you can use to start productive goal-setting conversations in your organization.
Workspan Daily
12/04/2025
Nearly 40% of respondents took one or more actions to address incentive plan goal-setting challenges, such as delaying the timing to finalize goals, widening performance ranges, and adding or increasing the emphasis on relative metrics.;
;Most respondents are not planning significant changes to incentive plan designs for 2026 or the
short-term incentive (STI ) performance mix or
long-term incentive (LTI) award vehicle mix.Most also have not made changes to equity grant practices in response to stock market volatility or proposed shareholder advisory group policy changes.;
;Among respondents with
incentive cycles ending in 2025, most (roughly half for STI and 60% for LTI) do not currently anticipate the use of discretion, with one-third taking a “wait and see” approach.
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Workspan Magazine
08/15/2022
The percentage of sales teams meeting the benchmark declined each year since 2017, reaching a low point in our most recent data set, as shown in Figure 1.
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Workspan Magazine
02/15/2023
Relatedly, we should understand that not everyone has the same set of preferences as to how and when they communicate.
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Workspan Daily
03/22/2023
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Setting a precedent.
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Workspan Daily
04/14/2025
Sales managers struggle to get quota setting right.
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