The tip sheets below provide suggestions from workshops developed for Let’s Talk Money’s cohorts of institutions. Topics address key LTM concepts such as collaboration, communication, and fairness.

• Creating Team Ground Rules - Ground rules reflect what is important to team members about how they interact and can promote inclusion within the team.

• 5 Must-Ask Questions - This series of questions can prepare you to learn more about your institution’s compensation system and illuminate potential areas for improvement.

• Total Compensation - Understand the collective mix of salary, other pay, benefits, and non-pay considerations for faculty in higher ed.

• Principles of Organizational Fairness in Pay Processes - With four components – distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational – organizational fairness provides a framework for examining institutional processes, including those that relate to pay.

• Fairness Traps & Checks - Fairness traps represent opportunities to fortify fairness by identifying guiding principles, raising awareness about assumptions being made, and inserting fairness checks into the process.