Employee Benefits & Total Compensation:Big, Cool butMostly Hidden







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Employee Communication:Inform, Educate, Personalize







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The HumanResources Collaborative Suite:Eliminate the HR - IT Divide







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HR can ill afford the expense of attrition. Poor morale can be a result of HR providing ineffective communications.
HR should take action  now.  Don't wait until 2009 for effective employee communications.  It may be far too little and way too late.
No, Employee Benefit Statements are not a magic, communications bullet. They won't change the price of oil or corn, but they will give your employees the Big Picture.
Maybe, just maybe they will look closely at their own Total Compensation Portrait.  Set it down, pick it up again & hand it to their spouse.  Then think, talk, reconsider.
We all sit on both sides of the Great Divide.It just depends on the task.
Inform, Educate & Personalizeto each employee as required.
Eliminate the Great DivideEnhance HR Productivity
HR Communications: The critical Human factor
Let them know orthey will go.
'Let them know or they will go.'
Why undertake the effort and expense of providing employee benefits if there is no effort to communicate those benefits?  You may have the most competitive Total Comp package in your industry, but it will be wasted if you do not communicate.
Spending thousands of $ per employee on benefits, but nary a penny on communications is penny foolish.
'Eliminate the Great Divide'
Knowledge.  If HR has it, you know what to do and how to complete projects efficiently.
Without knowledge, HR may:
- pay an expensive consultant- use finite, internal resources- kill time, reinvent the wheel- make errors in bulk, slowly- simply, do nothing
Part of HR Communications mission is to help you help your employees to understand complex issues.
An equally important part of HR Communications mission is to help you understand complex issues.
Knowledge = HR ProductivityHR Communications has spent the last five years developing a way to effectively collaborate with HR Departments. As we collaborate, you will learn and become a more valuable member of the Corporate Management Team.
Fewer consulting fees, less HR dependence on limited internal resources, fewer errors, greater possibilities & improved communications for you, your employee Group & your HR Department.
'Inform, Educate, Personalize'
Employee benefits can be complex.  Asking an employee to evaluate a 50 page Plan summary for one benefit and make the correct decision is an unrealistic Group Communications strategy.
Benefits and Compensation are very personal issues.  John Doe or Jane Doe examples will consistently fail to thoroughly inform, educate and by definition, personalize.
If you want each member of your Group to make correct decisions, then personalize the content.
If your Group Communications goals include:
- Increase 401(k) enrollment- Increase FSA/DCA enrollment- A correct beneficiary file- Boost Plan enrollment- ++ Retirement Education ...- More efficient enrollment- Better Incentive explanations- Collective bargaining data
... then there is a better Group Communications method & you can find it on this site.
The answers are NOT additional color Brochures or Employee Group Communications Meetings.
+ A Review of Younicycle, by Andrew Sullivan of CommandPrompt
Ideas. Productivity Step #1.  
The Human Resources Collaborative Suite:  The Ideas Platform.
'The Ideas Platform'
Belt tightening & solid employee communications are not mutually exclusive.
R A Review of Younicycle, the Foundation of the Human Resources Collaborative Suite.
Employee Benefit Statements'tis the Season
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