Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Discover the sweeping dilemma your own employees could be struggling from due to poor financial footing and how it is affecting your business. Learn the solutions that are available and how to implement them amongst your biggest asset, your employees. Improve your bottom line by offering the tools needed by your employees to give them the financial wellbeing they often struggle to find on their own. We welcome you to join us in our first webcast geared towards improving the financial wellness and education amongst your employees. This event is sure to be highly educational and beneficial to your company. We encourage all to attend.

Learn how to implement a unique Credit Score Education Program, including optional one-to-one counseling for your employees. This program can be used in any size company and those with different office locations. It is an employee benefit that will be used and is affordable to provide to your staff. Help employees reduce their personal financial stress and become more empowered and able to make the right moves with regard to credit issues. We all know that financial stress impacts performance and productivity. Studies show that over 30% of employees spend over 20 hours per month on personal financial issues making them less productive at work. Give you employees the assistance they really can use.

There are three developments that have made communicating benefits harder than ever:

• The increasing complexity of benefits, especially health benefits
• The general difficulty in getting anyone's attention
• The need to master multiple communications channels

Fortunately, there are new ideas and methods for communicating during the open enrollment period that will help you battle past these challenges.

This webinar will look at the thinking that lies behind successful open enrollment communication programs and shares some specific tips and techniques. Among the techniques we will explore are the use of video, social media, and “federated” creation of content. We can do better communication than ever, but we have to embrace the right tools and right mindset.

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.

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.

Business Protection Needs - Whether the business is just starting out or has been operating for decades, the owner will always have protection needs. As a new establishment, one of the main goals may be protecting the key employees who significantly contribute to it's operations. Down the road, the owner may want to focus on protecting the transfer of the business by ensuring that it is passed on according to his/her wishes. We support multiple business protection strategies that can be designed according to your business client at hand. Business Retirement Needs can be broken into two different solutions: Qualified strategies and Non-Qualified strategies. While both solutions offer both employee benefits and owner retirement solutions, each are structured to work differently. We support multiple business retirement strategies, both qualified and non qualified - each with the ability to be designed to meet the needs of your business owner client.