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401k & Pension Education
Dust Off The Image Of Defined Benefit Plans
Innovative communication can dramatically boost employees’ perception of the value of the DB plan.
Clear Participant 401k Fee Communication is Inevitable and Necessary
The retirement industry needs a simple and transparent pricing structure.
A Letter to the 401k Retirement Industry
Failing to ensure employees have the knowledge to use 401ks successfully is cruel … and you are doing little to fix it.
Employee Communication
How Communicators Can Make Change Work
Uncertainty is the killer of workplace change. Defeat it by describing “excellence in action” for employees.
The Secret of Communicating Bad News
Communicating bad news is the most important and difficult employee communication challenge organizations face.
Strategic Communication: Full-Time Function or Dysfunctional Concept?
Any employee communication function that is not practicing strategic communication full time is dysfunctional.
Three Things Wrong With Our Profession
These problems may be serious enough to change what we do—even what we’re called.
Benefits In General
Benefits should not be expensive ‘dissatisfiers’ – impediments to building and retaining a committed workforce.
A Free Car Would Make Employees Happy, So Why Don’t Their Benefits?
Telling employees about the $18,000 of rewards they’re receiving should create a positive reaction. Here’s how.
Creating Benefit Value Statements
If “here’s how much your benefits costs” increased employees’ appreciation, shouldn’t it have worked by now?
Pay/Compensation
Total Compensation: Effective Solution or Empty Slogan?
Unfortunately, more has been said to employees about total compensation than is actually known.
Use “full job value” – don’t say “midpoint.” Have competent employees reached only the halfway point?
Resources
A step-by-step means of creating a communication campaign.
Involving Leaders In Benefit Plan Design
A tool to get input from leaders to help design benefits.
Total Value Statement Planning Guide
a step-by-step approach to creating a benefit value statement.
Stock Option Communication Sample
A starting point for explaining stock options.
A checklist for merger communication planning.
Speeches
Why DB plans deserve more love — but probably won’t get it.
Making Benefits Positive Rewards Again
How improved communication can change benefits from dissatisfiers to positive rewards.