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Beginner
Total Rewards Foundations

A deep, practitioner-grade foundation in Total Rewards — the five-pillar framework, compensation mechanics, benefits and wellbeing strategy, and how to communicate rewards with confidence. Includes worked exercises, multi-part case studies, and a full capstone audit project.

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Intermediate
Compensation & Benefits Essentials

A deep, practitioner-grade course in building salary structures, pricing roles against the market, costing benefits accurately, and governing pay decisions so they stay consistent at scale. Includes worked calculations, multi-part case studies, and a full capstone build project.

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Intermediate
Pay Equity & Job Evaluation

A deep, practitioner-grade course in point-factor job evaluation, statistically grounded pay gap analysis, full audit methodology, and remediation that actually holds. Includes worked calculations, multi-part case studies, and a full capstone audit project.

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Intermediate
Pay Transparency & Communication

A deep, practitioner-grade course in navigating the pay transparency shift — maturity staging, global compliance mechanics, manager enablement, and communication that actually changes perception, with the data to prove it. Includes worked calculations, multi-part case studies, and a full capstone rollout project.

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Advanced
HR Analytics & Career Development

A deep, practitioner-grade course in compensation distribution analysis, predictive flight-risk modelling, CFO-ready business case construction, and skill-based career framework design. Includes worked calculations, multi-part case studies, and a full capstone proposal project.

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Intermediate
Variable Pay & Short-Term Incentive Design

A practitioner-grade course in designing, governing, and communicating short-term incentive plans that actually change behaviour — from eligibility and metric design through to payout curves, governance gates, and year-end administration. Includes worked exercises, case studies across the Rewardology fictional organisations, and a full plan design capstone.

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Intermediate
Benefits Design & Administration

A practitioner-grade course in designing, benchmarking, costing, and administering employee benefits packages — from core health and retirement design through to flexible benefits windows and multi-generational portfolio strategy. Includes worked calculations, multi-company case studies, and a full M&A benefits harmonisation capstone.

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Advanced
Executive Compensation & Long-Term Incentives

A practitioner-grade course in executive pay governance, long-term incentive vehicle design, performance condition architecture, and shareholder-focused disclosure — from remuneration committee fundamentals through to IPO pay framework design. Includes worked exercises, multi-organisation case studies, and a full IPO compensation capstone.

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Sales Compensation Design

A practitioner-grade course in designing, calibrating, and administering sales compensation plans — from commission structure mechanics through to quota-setting methodology, dispute resolution, and multi-geography scaling. Includes worked calculations, multi-company case studies, and a full scaling sales organisation capstone.

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Advanced
Global Compensation & Mobility

A practitioner-grade course in global pay philosophy, geographic pay differentiation, expatriate package design, and African market compensation — from glocal framework design through to multi-country expansion and high-inflation pay governance. Includes worked calculations, case studies across six markets, and a six-market expansion capstone.

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Job Evaluation and Grade Architecture

Build, calibrate, and govern a defensible job architecture — from point-factor evaluation and grade structure design to career frameworks, IC tracks, and the governance needed to prevent structural erosion. Includes worked evaluations, a grade compression case study, and a full acquisition integration capstone.

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Advanced
Pay Equity Analysis and Reporting

A practitioner-grade course in pay equity audits, gender and ethnicity pay gap calculation and reporting, and remediation strategy — from the statistical methods used to identify gaps through to the governance architecture needed to close them permanently. Includes worked calculations, a full pay gap narrative, and a global programme design capstone.

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Reward Communication and Employee Experience

Build a reward communication strategy that converts invisible spend into perceived value — from pay philosophy and total reward statements through manager enablement, pay conversations, and pay transparency. Includes TRS design, manager briefing pack development, and a full communication transformation programme capstone.

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Compensation Analytics and Workforce Modelling

Build an analytical compensation practice — from data quality and core metrics through statistical pay analysis, merit matrix modelling, and predictive attrition analytics. Includes regression interpretation, merit budget validation, a complete attrition risk model, and a Series B investor-readiness capstone.

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Mergers, Acquisitions and Reward Integration

A practitioner course in M&A reward — from due diligence identification of change-of-control provisions and pension liabilities through compensation harmonisation, benefits integration, and the communication programme that determines whether acquired employees stay or leave. Two-deal sequential case study: Bridgeway acquisition and its lessons applied to the Vantage capstone.

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Reward Strategy and Business Partnering

Transition from reward administrator to strategic business partner — building financial business cases, presenting to boards and RemCos, and partnering with business leaders to solve talent and cost challenges. Built around Meridian Group's transformation from a cost-management function to a strategic reward capability.

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Workforce Planning and Headcount Cost Modelling

Build the analytical foundations for strategic workforce planning — demand forecasting, employment cost modelling, turnover economics, and redundancy programme design. Built around Castleton Partners' three-year growth plan, PE acquisition, and Capital Markets restructuring.

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Recognition and Non-Financial Reward

Design a recognition programme that produces measurable retention impact — covering recognition psychology, three-tier architecture, non-financial motivational theory, EVP design, and flexible working governance. Built around Nova Tech's journey from a 58% recognition score to Series C investor readiness.

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Reward for Startups and Scale-ups

Design compensation, equity, and recognition programmes for high-growth companies — from seed-stage salary bands and EMI option schemes through to Series B merit cycles, international expansion, and board remuneration committee governance.

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Reward Governance, ESG and Stakeholder Reporting

Master reward governance, ESG-linked executive pay design, Directors' Remuneration Report drafting, and pay transparency compliance. Built around Kestrel Group's transformation from cosmetic ESG metrics to board-level governance leadership — including a FTSE RemCo challenge, EU Directive compliance, and a live equal pay complaint.

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