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Pay for Performance, Tested: What your pay decisions are actually rewarding

November 5, 2026

Most pay-for-performance plans start from a belief: that top performers are far more valuable than everyone else, or that they aren’t. A manager assigns a rating, and each step up in rating earns a bigger raise or bonus. That’s not, however, how it works in real life.

Join Syndio’s Shonna Waters, Colby Kennedy Nesbitt from Netflix and Lauren Bidwell from SAP SuccessFactors as they compare the theory beyond pay for performance and the research on how it works in practice.

Listen to how successful organizations structure designs that deliver, what actions you can take now and how to build a plan for better linkages between pay and performance in the future. You’ll see where to look for the gaps between intent and results, and what Total Rewards leaders, CHROs and CFOs can change in the next cycle.

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Meet your speakers

Hear directly from the experts

Shonna Waters, PhD

Shonna Waters, PhD

SVP, Exec. Engagements & Insights

Syndio

Colby Kennedy Nesbitt, PhD

Colby Kennedy Nesbitt, PhD

Senior Manager, Employee Listening

Netflix

Lauren Bidwell, PhD

Lauren Bidwell, PhD

Senior Research Scientist, Future of Work Research Lab

SAP SuccessFactors

What you'll get

You'll leave with:

  • A way to test which assumption about performance your pay plan rests on
  • Design choices that matter most, ranked
  • Syndio data on how organizations pay for performance in practice and what results they get
  • What you can do now and before next merit cycle