Past Events
Thriving Together with Thoughtful Rewards
Pretium Year-end Rewards & HR Trends Webinar - 2024
During the webinar, Ms. May Poon shared case studies on how to develop pay-for-performance reward strategies and optimize manpower alignment. The key takeaways to facilitate HR planning include:
- Developing budget strategies for competitive salary review. Segmentation and differentiation in pay positioning for different businesses according to their relative business performance and development stage.
- Develop salary structures based on desired pay positioning to align employees' salaries with the performance and competencies to promote pay for performance and to provide clear salary planning and career pathing for each department.
- Diverse performance across sectors and conflicting compensation trends have created market noise, necessitating comprehensive analyses and stakeholder engagement to align reward strategies with business goals and employee needs.
- Optimizing not only headcounts but also manpower resources allocation to ensure talents at the right job level and with the right skills is the key to increase productivity and manage staff costs.
Proactive Resilience in the New Normal
Pretium Year-end Rewards & HR Trends Roundtable - 2023
Pretium's Year-end Rewards and Human Resource Trends Roundtable was held with the theme "Proactive Resilience in the New Normal". The roundtable explored how to stay proactive and resilient under the new normal. Ms. May Poon shared valuable insights on how the macro economy and business performance in 2023 would impact salary adjustments and bonus levels. She also shared case studies on how employee headcount and staff mix affect staff costs and per capita compensation competitiveness.
John Lee, from FIT Compensation Consultants, shared insights on the potential impact of global trends on Asia. Linda Lu from First Calibre provided market insights on talent mobility and recruitment strategies.
During the conference, participants also engaged in breakout discussions and shared company practices on how HR can be positive resilient from the perspectives of rewards, performance management, talent management, and HR transformation.
Pay and Performance for Multi-Generational Workforce
Pretium Year-end Rewards & HR Trends Webinar - 2022
Pretium's Year-end Rewards and Human Resource Trends Webinar was held with the theme "Pay and Performance for Multi-Generational Workforce". The webinar explored how to balance multiple priorities with limited budget to manage a multi-generational workforce. Ms. May Poon shared valuable insights on the effect of Great Resignation on staff turnover in Asia and the relationship between salary increase and inflation. She also shared case studies about profit-sharing and pay differentiation strategies. Ms. Becky So, former HR Director of a European Investment Bank, shared a case study related to "New Normal" at work in a Post-COVID World.
Pay and Manpower Planning During the Recovery
Pretium Year-end Rewards & HR Trends Webinar - 2021
Pretium's Year-end Rewards and Human Resource Trends Webinar was held with the theme "Pay and Manpower Planning During the Recovery". The webinar provides insightful market data and direction to enable HR to tap into the recovering economy and align pay and manpower strategies. Ms. May Poon shared important insights on how the macro environment will affect pay and bonus planning. She also shared case studies on how to retain and engage young talent and reduce retention risks. Mr. Felix Kung from Global Shares shared the latest ESOP trend & equity administration solution.
Vigilance and Resilience in the New Normal
Pretium Year-end Rewards & HR Trends Webinar - 2020
Pretium's Year-end Rewards and Human Resource Trends Webinar was held with the theme "Vigilance and Resilience in the New Normal". The onset of the webinar focused on the understanding the macro environment to stay vigilant. Ms. May Poon shared important insights on how to link compensation with business performance and optimize manpower planning and to strengthen resilience. The final thoughts from Winston Churchill inspired participant to turn difficulties into opportunities.
Connecting the Dots Amid Uncertainties
Pretium Year-end Rewards & HR Trends Roundtable - 2019
Pretium's 2019 Year-end Rewards and Human Resource Trends Sharing Session focuses on the theme "Connecting the Dots Amid Uncertainties". Enlightened by Steve Jobs' famous speech, we explored how HR should find linkage between different variables from a mass of data in a "VUCA" world. Our Managing Partner, Ms. May Poon shared important insights on how to harness data and enhance pay and performance linkage among uncertainties, and how HR can "Connect the Dots Amid Uncertainties" to drive business forward. Jonathan Lee from Shareworks also shared the latest market trends in long-term incentives to strengthen interest alignment between the company and individual.
How HR Should Transform the Company in a VUCA world
Pretium Year-end Rewards & HR Trends Roundtable - 2018
Pretium's 2018 Year-end Rewards and Human Resource Trends Roundtable focuses on the theme "How HR should transform in a VUCA world" to explore how HR manages VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) to drive transformation in the new year. Our Managing Partner, Ms. May Poon has provided professional insights on how to manage performance in a VUCA world and practical tips on harnessing data to navigate through volatility. Moreover, Ms. Kate Lai from KPMG provided useful information about the impacts of individual tax reform on cross-border employees and some related case studies. The inspiring contexts of the Roundtable have received very positive feedback from the participants.
Human Resource as the Game Changer
Pretium Year-end Rewards & HR Trends Sharing Session - 2017
On November 7, 2017, Pretium conducted the Year-end Rewards and HR Trends Roundtable. The theme of this year was "Human Resource as the Game Changer" to explore how HR could push the boundaries to drive new business strategies and transformation in 2018. Our Managing Partner, Ms. May Poon shared professional insights on changing the game through compensation programs. Mr. Eric Waldburger from Spice Coaching shared how confidence drives and delivers change and Ms. Linda Lu from First Calibre shared the innovative ways to attract top talents.
Reinforcing Partnership & Innovation
Pretium Year-end Rewards & HR Trends Sharing Session - 2016
Pretium conducted the Year-end Rewards and Human Resource Trends Sharing Session on November 16, 2016 with the theme of "Reinforcing Partnership & Innovation". Partnership and Innovation has become the new frontier to manage uncertainties and increase competitive edge. Our Managing Partner, Ms. May Poon shared professional insights on how to strengthen partnership through incentive programs as well as applying Big Data in pay review and innovation in other HR strategies. Mr. Mike Baker from Global Shares shared how technology enables equity compensation around the world and Ms. Elaine Wong shared the market trends in engagement practices.
Steering Through the Uncertainties
Pretium Year-end Rewards & HR Trends Sharing Session - 2015
Riding on the success last year, Pretium conducted the Year-end Rewards and Human Resource Trends Sharing Session on November 27, 2015. Similar to last year, our Partner, Ms May Poon shared professional insights on human resources trends in the financial services industry. This included business performance and bonus expectation, LTI application, talent management as well as benefits trends. Guest speakers from DLA PIPER also shared practical case studies on potential pitfalls of LTI implementation.
Pretium Year-end Rewards & Performance Trends Sharing Session - 2013 & 2014
In the past two years, Pretium successfully held the Year-end Rewards and Performance Trends Sharing Sessions in late November. During the sharing sessions, our Partner, May Poon shared the holistic findings from our Year-end Rewards & Performance Trends Study each year, which included business performance, salary projection, bonus expectations, headcount changes and staffing trends as well as regulatory impacts on compensation. The sharing sessions were well received by the participants which included a mix of local and international firms.
