Benefits pros on the move: HealthJoy, Sterling Administration, and HealthSavings
Before COVID-19 kept everyone still, these key executives made some strategic moves within the benefits space.
Corporate governance
Benefits Think Is value-based insurance design experiencing a renaissance?
The growing costs faced by today’s health care purchasers and plan members have many returning to proven strategies like V-BID, which lowers or eliminates the out-of-pocket cost for high-value services or medications.
Ryan Olmstead
Catalyst for Payment Reform
Benefits Think 7 ways for advisers to boost video engagement
Business will have to make virtual engagement central to their strategy. The firms that get a head start with video now are the ones who will thrive tomorrow.
Megan Carpenter
FiComm Partners
Employers can use positive psychology to connect with employees in times of crisis
Managers can project gratitude and resilience using positive psychology methods, which will help employees weather the challenges of coronavirus and other workplace adjustments.
Benefits Think Free benefits administration: Establishing its value
Brokers and their clients can save money with a high-quality, no-cost solution.
Daniel Freund
Common Census
Benefits Think 5 ways tech leaders can manage the COVID-19 crisis
It is of strategic importance that we ensure our information technology is supporting the entirety of the organization and its ability to communicate.
Benefits Think What to consider when changing your employee benefit offerings
When benefits are customized to fit employee needs, not only are employees happier, they’re also significantly more satisfied with their jobs, loyal to their employers and engaged and productive at work.
Dr. Miles Varn
PinnacleCare
Benefits Think Coronavirus: What clients and advisers need to know
We can all play a part in preparing for this and future outbreaks.
Carolyn McClanahan
Life Planning Partners
Benefits Think Move over, tech. Banks must focus on their teams, values.
Banks are so caught up in the newest technology trends that they lose sight of the need to build a talented workforce and a purpose-driven organization.
Bob Contri
Deloitte
Benefits Think 3 ways to strengthen your company culture in 2020
A leader must understand that high performing teams with strong cultures are those that are highly aligned around the same core values.
Shane Jackson
Jackson Healthcare
Benefits Think The biggest trap of business planning? Failing to write and share your plan
This outline will help you through the process of creating a plan for your agency that includes just what you need to make it a successful year.
Wendy Keneipp
Q4intelligence
Company pays employees $7,500 to go on vacation
FullContact awards their employees an annual bonus on the condition they don’t look at work emails while on vacation.
5 tech trends for better C-suite onboarding
Executive search leader John Hodge identifies key opportunities where organizations can make a significant difference building sustainable teams that drive lasting success.
Employees want year-round benefits instead of holiday parties
More workers would forgo celebrations and bonuses for more consistent rewards and recognition.
Benefits Think Partnering on benefits: The advantages of CHRO, CFO collaboration
By working together, these two C-suite positions could create solutions for high-spend areas and optimize employee productivity at work.
Karen Boone
Collective Health, Peloton, Tory Burch and Sonos
Seeking stability, Cetera embraces 401(k)s
The IBD network's AdvicePay integration could help the firm convert more retirement plan business into wealth management clients as it completes a record year for new assets.
Benefits Think Steps to move beyond the benefits status quo
Advanced next-generation benefits strategies require time and effort to master, but here are some simple steps to implement your plan.
Even when IRS says yes, company plans may say no
Retirement plans may decline to offer delayed RMDs, plan loans, stretch and hardship distributions and a host of other legally sanctioned tax maneuvers.
Is this expense killing your retirement budget?
Retirees often underestimate the cost of the second-largest expense for people 65 and older.
Tempted to expense that strip club as a business dinner? AI is watching
AppZen has signed up several big companies, including Amazon, IBM, Salesforce and Comcast, and claims to have saved its clients $40 million in fraudulent expenses.
