Market data can tell you what other organizations are doing with their incentive plans. But how do you determine which practices actually make sense for your organization?

In this hands-on workshop, you'll use findings from the 2026 WorldatWork–Compensation Advisory Partners Incentive Pay Practices Survey to explore how market practices can inform incentive design decisions. Working with a realistic company scenario, you'll use WorldatWork's interactive research dashboard to identify an appropriate comparison group, examine incentive plan practices and evaluate how the findings relate to the organization's business strategy and talent objectives.

You'll work with peers to develop recommendations, compare approaches and discuss why different organizations may make different design choices using the same underlying data.

Led by WorldatWork's Research team and incentive compensation experts from Compensation Advisory Partners, this session will help you move beyond benchmarking to make more informed, defensible incentive design decisions. You'll leave with a practical framework and worksheet you can use to evaluate incentive programs within your own organization.