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As health insurance costs continue to spiral upward at an alarming rate, it has become painfully clear, that the “traditional” strategies of changing insurance carriers, changing plan designs, and changing employee contributions will not and cannot provide any form of sustainability or predictability over the long term. All these strategies do is shift risk from one insurance carrier to another, or shift costs and liability from the insurance carrier or employer onto the employee.
Employers must change their thinking from that or RISK TRANSFERENCE to RISK MANAGEMENT when it comes to their employee benefits program. This presentation will outline the three areas of risk in an employer sponsored health insurance plan, and how to effectively manage that risk.

Learn how the choices you make could affect your organization.
Now that the Affordable Care Act is here to stay, many employers are asking, "What do I have to do to avoid penalties and minimize costs?"

Register for this complimentary webinar featuring expert advice from Monique Warren, partner at Jackson Lewis LLP, to learn how you can avoid being blind-sided by unanticipated costs in 2014.

In this webinar you will learn how the penalties can be triggered in 2014, their potential financial impact, and how alternatives to avoid these penalties may affect your organization. Employers that have not already done so must put a strategy in place and develop tools and processes to comply before the 2014 deadline.

Tips and Pointers for Conducting a System Implementation Presented by Tom Sonde of SilverRoad Solutions Implementing new technology does not guarantee efficiency. There’s a lot more to a successful system implementation then simply letting your IT department hire a system implementation firm to install your new software. Surveys have reported that up to 90% of organizations are dissatisfied with their HR system. While some of the blame should rightfully be directed at the software provider a significant portion of the issues can be traced directly back to an inadequate implementation. Whether you are implementing a traditional HR system, one of the new cloud based systems or an add-on such as an online recruiting solution there are a host of things you, as the HR practitioner, should address. This session will identify and discuss the keys to a successful implementation. It is non-technical and is designed to provide the HR practitioner with practical tips for conducting a systems implementation. What You Will Learn: 1. Why system implementations fail, who is to blame and how to avoid them. 2. What are the key areas to focus on and how to address them. 3. How to marry process with technology and apply best practices. 4. How to take advantage of delivered system functionality

The Importance of Benefit Communication will be discussing all aspects of open enrollment from: 1) Employee and Employer needs and trends and ways to save cost to bottom line. 2) Benefit selection including: product lines, differention, and how to ask the right questions to achieve the best overall plans 3) Different styles of benefit communication to fit different learning needs. 4) Questions to ask to choose a communication company that works best for your needs. 5) Different benefits available and how to choose the best ones for your needs. 6) Products and services that can help maximize your enrollment at little or no cost to your bottom line.

You have a benefits program. Your employees have smartphones. Now what? Attend this presentation to learn how mobile technology will change insurance and employee pensions and benefits forever. Discover what lies ahead for mobile technology, and how your benefit program and mHealth will come together. Organizations and human resources will learn about this new platform for program management, and how to lower administration overhead by using and effectively deploying not just Apps to smartphones but components of a fully integrated health system. Learn about the potential for a fully integrated health records systems encompassing Government health plans and private health insurance.

Now, more than ever, it's important to know how health care reform will affect you, your employees and your business. Don't miss this interactive webinar discussing the sweeping transformations involving health care changes and employee benefits. In this webinar, our expert on compliance, Penny Boyd, will guide you through topics such as: W2 reporting, uniform summary of coverage, open enrollment checklists, dependent issues, and focusing on how grandfathered, non-grandfathered and self-insured plans must comply with new regulations. Our speaker, Penny Boyd, is CBP's compliance specialist. As Compliance Coordinator, she brings over 25 years of experience in Employee Benefits, Compensation and Human Resources to the team. She is a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist and a longtime member of the International Foundation of Employee Benefits. Penny's most recent work experience was at The Dannon Company, Inc., as Manager of Employee Benefits. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a BA in Anthropology and studied Law after graduating.

In this presentation Dr. Steven Aldana, CEO of WellSteps will share the evidence that shows that effective employee wellness programs improve the bottom line and should become a core business strategy. Dr. Aldana has published over 70 research articles and has written five books on the connections between healthy living and disease prevention. Harvard School of Public Health says his most recent book, The Culprit and The Cure “is better than the best medicines”. As one of the nation’s leading experts on worksite wellness Dr. Aldana will help you understand and be able to make the business case to start a wellness program.

Timesheets? Activity Reports? Job Logs? What does your Agency call them? Workforce Management is more than just payroll of course but it’s highly likely that Payroll represents your Agency’s greatest expense. It also represents its greatest asset! In this session we’ll begin by looking at Workforce Management from 3 perspectives – the employee experience, the transactional process and the strategy of it all. We’ll then focus on how automating time and attendance can lead your Organization beyond the day-to-day challenges of collecting, calculating and processing records and on into effective, efficient real-time information that empowers your team to do more with less!

Employers that offer company-sponsored employee healthcare benefits are facing an upswing in multifaceted challenges. Among the most daunting is the necessity to control costs, while providing competitive benefits that will help to attract, retain, and motivate the workers needed for their business to survive and succeed. The need for meaningful and effective benefit tools that can be accessed when and where participants want them has become critical – both for empowering employees to make cost effective choices that also meet their unique needs, and to increase employee engagement and loyalty. The ADP Research Institute, a specialized group within ADP, recently completed a survey of 501 decision makers from small, mid-size and large employers. These findings illustrate a need for increased benefits communications on behalf of employers, as well as the need for utilizing decision support tools and mobile applications to increase an employee’s knowledge of the suite of benefits to best address their individual needs. This webinar will discuss trends in the use of benefits decision support tools along with a discussion on benefits communications – and the increasingly important role that the use of mobile applications plays. The survey findings will address how companies plan on budgeting for increasingly complex communication requirements; the role of both mobile and other forms of direct access in supporting the strategic goals of engaging employees--while also proactively managing costs. We will discuss whether decision support tools are of value to employers and employees-- and what role such tools will play in the new world of Health Care Reform.

Better Benefits Meetings...in the Cloud. Web-based video solutions for employee benefits education and communication. This presentation will review how advancements in web-based (online) video can make the benefits communication process easier, faster, and more engaging for employees while helping reduce costs and saving time for employers.

Partcipants will learn about the challenges of current "mandatory" on-site meetings and how a video component can complement their communication strategy while reaching the broadest audience possible.

Through a combination of "pre-produced" benefits video tutorials combined with custom video segments, employers can get the best of both worlds with a cost-effective online video production at annual open enrollment and year round with new hires.