First Part of Discussion: Benefits Communication
Question 1-Does your current (or previous) organization have a strategy in place to communicate its benefits plan to employees?
Question 2-If so, how effective is it, and what can be done to improve it?
Question 3-If not, what are your thoughts on putting a benefits communication plan in place?
Question 4-Would it be beneficial?
Companies today must have benefits that compete to draw in and retain top talent. Unfortunately, the way they communicate the message is often less than desirable.
Question 5-Evaluate how your employers communicate their benefit plans.
Question 6-What are your thoughts on the communications that they utilize?
Question 7-What is a best practice?
Question 8-What could be improved?
Second Part of Discussion: Benefit Administration and Cost Controls:
Insurance providers and employers alike are searching for techniques and strategies to help control their benefit costs.
Question 9- Has your organization been able to find ways to improve your benefit program or add new benefits without adding a heavy cost burden to your department or your employees?
Question 10- Will your organization's budget for employee benefits be growing, staying the same, or potentially shrinking over the coming year?
This issues seems to be a concern to us all every year with the increasing cost increases in medical care. Insurance providers and employers look at different ways to control benefit costs.
Question 11-Which ways do you feel are most effective?
Question 12- How do these work to control cost and provide the best benefit possible at the most reasonable cost?