About the Let’s Talk Process

Let’s Talk Money focuses on improving policy, perception, leadership skills and engagement in the faculty compensation system, drawing on learning from efforts by the Rochester Institute of Technology, Drexel University, Gallaudet University, and Villanova University. 

The Let’s Talk Money Process is designed to help universities examine their faculty compensation system(s) to improve external competitiveness, internal fairness, transparency, consistency, and communications. By engaging in the modules, institutional teams will be walked through topics key to improving the compensation system to create an action plan.  

Workshop Modules

  • Module 1:  Project Introduction, Team Building, Goal Clarification

  • Module 2: Organizational Fairness & the Compensation Philosophy

  • Module 3: Internal & Benchmarking Data for Salary Comparisons

  • Module 4:  Pay Decision Processes and Fairness

  • Module 5: Bolstering Pay Decision Processes

  • Module 6: Collaborating and Communication

  • Module 7: Revisiting Pay Decision Processes

  • Module 8:  Communicating about Salary-Related Topics

  • Module 9:  Designing a Compensation Professional Development Program for Pay Decision Makers

  • Module 10: Creating an Action & Implementation Plan