The Benefits Trust Educational Webinars...
You to a Few: Profitable Clients with 1 to 5 Employees (1.0 CE Credit)
A Few to a Bunch: Profitable Clients with 5 to 20 Employees (1.0 CE Credit)
A Bunch to A Lot: Profitable Clients with 20 to 100 Employees (1.0 CE Credit)
Knowing Your Corporate Client in the Building, Trades, and Construction Industry Zoomcast Series (1.0 CE Credit)
Zoomcast Guidelines
To ensure a lively discussion, we have a few guidelines that we’d like you to adhere to:
- Only the first 100 registrants will get a spot for each Zoomcast.
- Please have your CAMERA ON and be ready to interact with others.
- Be prepared to engage in conversation. We want our Zoomcast series to be productive, insightful, and conversational, so please be ready to talk, ask questions, and converse.
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Join us as we explore many of the different Living Benefit solutions we have for small to medium sized businesses. The EDGE has been making many ground-breaking enhancements to our already wildly successful Living Benefit programs, helping you further support you clients.
Webinar topics and tools include:
- Opportunities to increase your sales with income replacement benefits
- How income protection completes any financial plan
- EDGE’s multi-product discount, and how to help your clients get more coverage for less
- How EDGE is dominating the market in benefits for small to mid-sized businesses
- Effective strategies and turnkey digital tools for cultivating your client base and breaking into new markets
Webinars will be held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays throughout October and November. To register, please visit our event calendar. EDGE webinars are free to attend and count toward CE credits.
Evening Sessions Tuesdays, 8-9PM EST
Nov 1: Individual Health and Dental
Nov 8: Disability Solutions for Small Business
Nov 15: Government Benefits
Nov 22: Small Business Benefits Solutions
Nov 29: No Medical CI Solutions
Day Sessions Wednesdays, 12-1 PM EST
Nov 2: Ideas to Help You Grow Your Business
Nov 9: Small Business Benefits Solutions
Nov 16: No Medical CI Solutions
Nov 23: Disability Solutions for Small Business
Nov 30: Natural Markets and Prospecting
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2023 Resolutions: Lower Plan Costs and Support Employee Health Needs
Tue, Nov 15, 2022 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM EST
With the new year around the corner, we are heading into a season of reflection and improvement and for Canadian companies, many of their employees will be making health-based resolutions for 2023. This period offers a great opportunity for employers to take a look at their benefits plans to identify areas where they can reduce costs while helping deliver on employee health & wellness needs
In this webinar, Jason Kennedy, registered pharmacist and general manager, Virtual Pharmacy at TELUS Health will share his expert insights on how companies can reduce costs in their benefits plans – specifically in the area of medication management – and other ways they can proactively support employees in improving their physical and mental health which can further lower plan costs in the new year.
In this webinar, Jason will speak to:
• How companies can improve medication management in benefits plans through plan design and innovative new digital services
• How new virtual health services can help employees be more proactive with their health and how this can support lower plan cost down the road
• Where we are headed with health and wellness supports provided through workplace benefits plans - what is on the horizon
Speaker: Jason Kennedy, General Manager, Virtual Pharmacy, TELUS Health
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CONFERENCE EXAMINES BENEFITS
The 2022 International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans’ ‘55th Annual Canadian Employee Benefits Conference’ will look at topics such as putting risk analysis to good effect, funding benefit plans properly, and the aging workforce and its impact on benefit plans. Speakers include Hugh Wright, a partner at Miller Thomson; Karen DeBortoli, a principal at Buck Canada HR Services; and Judy Plotkin, vice-president of health solutions at People Corporation. It takes place November 20 to 23 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Group insurance is an important pillar of employee benefits programs, and it’s more than ever an essential asset for attracting and retaining employees. Organizations are also concerned about striking the right balance between sound management to slow down the increasing costs and an innovative and comprehensive product and service offering.
In this webinar, Frédéric Leblanc, Strategic Leader, Drug Programs at iA Financial Group, will address the issue of managing plan costs by presenting the latest initiatives related to the management of biosimilar drugs. He will also provide insights into various preventive measures that can be put in place to prevent health problems from turning into illness or disability.
Charles Déragon, Product Leader, Disability, Life and Critical Illness at iA Financial Group, will address the issue of prevention from the perspective of health and wellness services and programs to meet the challenges of organizations and the expectations of their workers.
Don't miss this opportunity!
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Benefits Canada’s Face to Face Drug Plan Management Forum has been running for over 17 years and is the industry’s most popular drug benefits conference.
December 6, 2022 - Sheraton Centre Toronto
This year, attendees can look forward to being back in-person and face to face! Join us to learn about fresh drug plan design insights, including a new drug launch panel and a full day of educational sessions presented by industry experts.