Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Most retailers agree transforming and improving the in-store experience is critically important for success, but not enough has been said about the role of the store employees who shape that customer experience (positive or negative). Earlier this year, RSR released their benchmark report WFM 2013: The Store Employee in the Customer Age, and noted: “Aside from the instant gratification that comes from taking a product home after a purchase, it’s the store employee that can make the difference to the in-store experience. But getting the most value out of the employee investment remains a challenge.” In this webinar, Paula Rosenblum from RSR will walk us through the report findings and recommendations for retailers nationwide.

You've spent countless hours choosing the right medical plan for your company and your employees – now what other attractive options can you bring to your employees to reduce absenteeism, retain top performing employees and attract the best of the best? Non-insurance products and telehealth services provide consumers with choices designed to spend less of their hard-earned benefit dollars. Help your employees fully maximize their healthcare spending by providing these low cost consumerism programs.

Implementing products such as telehealth, medical bill saver and medical health advisor can help your employees and your organization save time and money as well as teach your employees how to be better healthcare consumers.

Greg Schlatter, EVP Business Development at New Benefits, will speak about how non-insurance products and telehealth services can fill that gap for your organization.

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.

Today’s knowledge economy, more than ever before, has made an organization’s people its most critical asset and one of its greatest investments. It is clear that mastering talent management helps organizations differentiate themselves in the marketplace, and thereby gain a competitive advantage. HR is firmly rooted in the belief that talent has impact, but can the same be said for an organization’s senior leadership—do they believe this to be true? Executives want evidence that HR is boosting their organization’s bottom line, but can HR substantiate and deliver this proof that talent equals financial reward?

Workforce analytics as part of a complete talent management strategy is critical for HR professionals as it enables them to connect the dots between their company’s overall performance and their investment in their workforce.

Corporate Wellness is becoming vastly accepted as one benefit you can't afford to do without. How do you know if you have a comprehensive program and what is on the horizon within this aggressively changing industry?
Our class is designed to educate you on how to incorporate Customized Care Plans and Building a Wellness and Health Promotion Network to create an evidence- based wellness program. Bringing in individualized and customized tools ; designed with the human touch in mind can ensure that your wellness program is also Productivity Insurance. We also take a look at other ROI factors beyond controlling healthcare costs to motivate additional tracking and planning within a wellness committee. We will discuss an example of a Diabetic Employee and their potential costs on a company (well beyond healthcare costs) in comparison to a healthy employee.
Understand what diseases and disease symptoms are quickly becoming the latest expenses in the healthcare world and how you can insure you are screening for these potential claims.
Learn how providers can customize, create, and track an employee care plan, as well as build a CAM network to assist your higher risk employees.

This webcast will discuss strategies for both employers and employees to protect their wealth and health. We’ll identify options for handling a long term care crisis and smart and affordable ways to plan for long term care. We’ll also share recent data illustrating the impact of long term care on employers and employees. And we’ll make recommendations to address the impact. Attendees will learn about long term care risk and the various steps that can be taken to minimize those risks. After the session, attendees will have a better understanding of how they can promote education to help employees better understand the risks and options available to address planning for long term care.

Wellness Analytics have evolved dramatically in the past few years with the growth of Big Data in health care and the capability of new wellness tools to create and execute on strategy. While analytics have traditionally been very expensive and used mainly for Benefit Plan Design, they are now more cost-effective and being applied to Wellness Plan Design, the next frontier of human resources productivity gains and cost savings. Modern analytics can help you generate return-on-investment through a better understanding of the health status of your entire population, alignment with wellness tools, and effective implementation and evaluation of wellness programs.

This webinar will explain the value of wellness analytics, how the field is evolving, and how they can be applied to help you achieve your population health improvement goals.

Half of Americans do have access to a retirement savings plan at their workplace. For those that do join they tend to save too little and often make unwise investment decisions. The 401(k) arena is in crisis, and workers need sound guidance and help to solve this problem. This presentation will show what sound guidance is needed to help participants make the right choices within their retirement accounts.

Additionally, we will discuss how employee education alone is not enough to move participant behavior in the right direction, and why we must use the tools discussed in this presentation in order to achieve successful retirement outcomes.

On January 1, 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will impose a $2,000 per employee penalty on employers with 50 or more workers who do not offer health insurance to their full-time staff. This webinar shows HR professionals what to do right now to comply with this mandate.

Participants that join this webinar can expect to have a more complete understanding of how the Internal Revenue Service defines full time employees. We’ll also discuss leveraging the safe harbor method for determining the full time status of an existing employee. Using that same method, we’ll outline how to define the status of a new employee. Objectives also include determining the status of variable hour and seasonal workers, to ensure compliance as well as a thorough understanding of standard measurement and stability periods, as a means to classifying employees.

Dependent Eligibility Verification Audits are an increasingly integral part of health care cost containment, ERISA compliance, and PPACA "Pay or Play" analysis. On average, 4-8% of Dependents enrolled in company benefits are NOT eligible. This costs employers 10's of thousands, 100's of thousands - even millions of dollars annually. Time and Money are the most common objections to conducting an audit, along with fear of adverse employee reaction. This webinar explores Best Practices, mistakes to avoid, and the substantial ROI achieved from a comprehensive dependent audit. Participants will learn what fraud in a benefits plan looks like, how prevalent fraud really is, and what type of savings they can generate for their company with an audit.