Total Rewards Strategies for Small to Medium Sized Companies

Pay and benefits are key components to attracting and retaining great employees, but they are only parts of a "total rewards" strategy. Learn how to identify and articulate your organization’s unspoken philosophies and practices around compensation, benefits and other components of the overall work experience as a means to reward your employees and promote your workplace to the right potential hires.

Patti Flauto is currently the Human Resources Manager for The Riverside Company, where she has responsibility in a variety of human resource areas, such as employee benefits, performance management, talent management, policies and compliance, employee relations, and training and development. Her prior roles include Senior HR Consultant with the ERC (Employers Resource Council), Senior HR Generalist with KeyCorp, and Human Resource Manager with Management Reports International.


Amy Petrus has 20 years of Human Resource experience. Amy’s areas of expertise include compensation, performance management, policy and procedure development, training, executive / management coaching, staffing assistance, and employee relations and communications. Previous positions included Sr. Human Resources Consultant with ERC, Human Resources Manager within a distribution / warehousing company, Compensation and Benefits Consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick, Human Resources Generalist and Recruiter.