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Browse our collection of webinars, sorted in playlists by year with the most recent webinar at the top. To learn more and download the slides, select the “Info & Resources” tab below the video.
Recorded 10/04/23
It’s that time of year again for many benefits professionals. Whether you are new to BRI or just looking for the latest updates, we have you covered this open enrollment season.
* Tips, tricks and best practices. What to keep in mind this open enrollment season.
* Resource check-in: BRI offers over 250+ resources to help you communicate and manage plans. Understand how to best use these resources.
* What participants want? Learn what participants are saying and what they are looking for.
* Recent enhancements to the BRI offering that are making an impact.
Recorded 9/20/23
Join us for an exciting panel of experts as we talk about the top trends affecting benefits this open enrollment season.
Hot Trends in Benefits for this Open Enrollment Season:
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Recorded 6/1/23
Through BRI’s ‘Benefits in Turbulent Times’ series, we tackle a variety of factors affecting benefits including the end of the pandemic, economic and recession pressures, labor market challenges, and how technology is influencing benefits.
Part 3– Benefits in Turbulent Times: How AI and Technology are Disrupting Benefits:
Recorded 5/23/23
Through BRI’s ‘Benefits in Turbulent Times’ series, we tackle a variety of factors affecting benefits including the end of the pandemic, economic and recession pressures, labor market challenges, and how technology is influencing benefits.
Part 2– Benefits in Turbulent Times: Economic and Labor Market Pressures:
How are recession fears and inflation affecting benefits
What can employers do to make their benefits more resilient?
Opportunities in a challenging labor market
Recorded 5/9/23
Through BRI’s ‘Benefits in Turbulent Times’ series, we tackle a variety of factors affecting benefits including the end of the pandemic, economic and recession pressures, labor market challenges, and how technology is influencing benefits.
Part 1– Benefits in Turbulent Times: Impact of the End of Pandemic:
What does the end of the pandemic mean?
What ‘relief’ is ending and what is the new norm?
What do employers and employees need to know?
How can you adapt for a post-pandemic state?
Recorded 4/12/23
BRI is offering a new Health Account Outlook Series. Through this series we will tackle a variety of topics affecting health accounts including: generational and behavior trends, consumer attitudes, how legislation and rules impact your strategy, and some of the hidden challenges (and opportunities) of health accounts.
Part 4: Helping employees navigate increasing costs in 2023 (Presented in partnership with Mastercard):
Big Economic Trends Facing US Consumers in 2023
How patients are Navigating Healthcare Affordability in 2023
Innovations Employers and TPAs should consider to help employees navigate affordability
Recorded 3/21/23
BRI is offering a new Health Account Outlook Series. Through this series we will tackle a variety of topics affecting health accounts including: generational and behavior trends, consumer attitudes, how legislation and rules impact your strategy, and some of the hidden challenges (and opportunities) of health accounts.
Part 3: Hidden Challenges (and Opportunities) of HSAs:
How to ensure your HSA is recession proof
Medicare and HSAs
Legislative predictions – what could be on the horizon for improvements to HSAs
Recorded 3/8/23
BRI is offering a new Health Account Outlook Series. Through this series we will tackle a variety of topics affecting health accounts including: generational and behavior trends, consumer attitudes, how legislation and rules impact your strategy, and some of the hidden challenges (and opportunities) of health accounts.
Part 2: HSAs Are Not One Size Fits All:
How account options and layering can meet the needs of all employees. We’ll break down the rules behind layering HSAs, FSAs, HRAs, and even VEBAs
Making the case: Why employers may need to offer a multi-account strategy and why employees like options
How it works in practice: A BRI Case study with FSA/HSA options
Recorded 2/14/23
BRI is offering a new Health Account Outlook Series. Through this series we will tackle a variety of topics affecting health accounts including: generational and behavior trends, consumer attitudes, how legislation and rules impact your strategy, and some of the hidden challenges (and opportunities) of health accounts.
Part 1: Leveraging Employee Insights For A Strategic Approach To Health Accounts:
Generational preferences or personal characteristics? Understand what is driving account use and what we can learn from behaviors and trends
Making the moments matter: how to effectively drive desired behaviors
Five tips for building out your 2023 benefits strategy
Recorded 9/20/22
It’s no secret that working parents struggle to find and secure the child care they need to work and with inventory declines and price increases at care centers across the country the impact on families and your bottom line is larger than ever. BRI has partnered with Kinside to bring you the data and tools to help you address these issues among your employees, aiding attraction and retention.
The child care landscape
What’s top-of-mind for working parents
How your working parents can take advantage of their BRI sponsored child care benefit
Ways to help parents save on child care costs
What tools are already at your fingertips for help families save
Recorded 9/14/22
Open Enrollment happens every year and somehow there are always surprises. Our Open Enrollment Readiness Series is intended to breakdown open enrollment into manageable steps (and hopefully take a few of the surprises away).
Part 4: Planning and executing on Your Employee Communication Strategy:
Defining your message: 10 questions to be sure to address during OE
Building and executing on your communication plan: Communicate early and often
Highlighting the “perks” in your benefits package
Don’t forget these post-enrollment communication tips
Recorded 9/7/22
Open Enrollment happens every year and somehow there are always surprises. Our Open Enrollment Readiness Series is intended to breakdown open enrollment into manageable steps (and hopefully take a few of the surprises away).
Part 3: Submitting Employer Plan Changes:
What are common changes to be aware of
How to address special requests and plan additions
Making your needs and changes known
Recorded 8/31/22
Open Enrollment happens every year and somehow there are always surprises. Our Open Enrollment Readiness Series is intended to breakdown open enrollment into manageable steps (and hopefully take a few of the surprises away).
Part 2: What’s New in Account-based Plans (and BRI):
Leveraging Specialty Accounts to change the benefits conversation
How Select Services Programs can be used to address reproductive health challenges
Sneak Peak into BRI product enhancements
Recorded 8/24/22
Open Enrollment happens every year and somehow there are always surprises. Our Open Enrollment Readiness Series is intended to breakdown open enrollment into manageable steps (and hopefully take a few of the surprises away).
Part 1: Understanding Plan Trends and Participant Behaviors:
What are common trends in account-based plans?
What are key behaviors of participants?
How behaviors change based on time in plan and industry
Recorded 6/2/22
There are so many things to take our attention these days, it is easy to overlook the less intensive world of employee benefits. In this 45-minute webinar, we will explore some of the key legislative and regulatory issues affecting employee benefits.
No Surprises Act & Price Transparency Rules
Mental Health Parity
HSAs and Tele-health
What the end of the pandemic may look like (from a regulatory perspective)
What we might expect in the year to come
Recorded 4/26/22
Open enrollment is likely in the rearview mirror for many, but communication is an ongoing process. In this 45-minute webinar, we will discuss how you can keep participants informed all year long.
Understand how your benefits are being used
Identify bite-size messages to improve employee’s experience with their benefits
Leverage the “off-season” to introduce new benefits or reeducate on underutilized benefits
Build a communications calendar to stay on track all year long
Recorded 3/25/22
The last two years have been filled with change and dynamic shifts both in the workplace and the world of benefits. We are excited to bring you a panel discussion regarding what we learned from the pandemic, what the data tells us today, and what it means for the future.
Impact to Benefits and Compensation
Impact to Health Care Utilization
Impact to The Way We Work
Recorded 2/14/22
In April 2020, the District of Columbia (D.C.) passed the Transportation Benefits Equity Amendment Act (informally referred to as the “Parking Cashout” law).
What the Parking Cashout law is.
Which companies need to comply.
4 different methods to achieve compliance, including how to meet reporting requirements.
How BRI can help support you and your employees.
Recorded 2/24/22
Employees are resigning at rates 75% higher than the 20 year average, leaving employers overwhelmed and challenged to attract and retain employees.
Key learnings regarding the Great Resignation
Four Steps to Improving Your Benefits
Tips and Best Practices to Survive the Great Resignation
Recorded 10/26/21
Join us as we dive into the legislative and regulatory environment of consumer-driven benefits accounts and COBRA administration.
Legislative relief set to expire at the end of the year and how to take advantage of it before it is gone
Permanent changes that may affect how you look at benefits for 2022
Legislative predictions for year-end and beyond
Recorded 9/21/21
Join Benefit Resource as we explore the key pain points and challenges of Human Resource professionals in 2021 and strategies to address them.
Research and insights from over 100 HR professionals regarding top priorities and challenges in 2021
7 tips for engaging employees
Sneak peak at anticipated trends for open enrollment (and how it compares to 2020)
What are participants saying? Key highlights from participants.
Recorded 6/10/21
Mastercard and Benefit Resource have partnered to present “How Sophisticated Companies are Changing the CDH Landscape”. In the presentation, we will highlight research addressing how top employers are changing the consumer-directed health landscape by adjusting their approach to communication and employing new program optimization strategies.
Insights from Mastercard Employer Research Initiative
10 Best Practices for Driving Adoption & Use
Strategies for Ongoing Education and Ease
Key Questions Answered
Recorded 4/15/21
Recent months have brought a frenzy of legislative actions and activities. Join us as we break it all down.
COBRA Subsidies: What does a 100% COBRA subsidy mean? And, what key steps need to occur?
Pandemic Periods: 12 months later, how is the pandemic still affecting 2019 and 2020 plans?
Temporary Relief Options for Health FSAs and Dependent Care FSAs.
Recorded 3/31/21
We are excited to offer this two-part webinar series on HRA VEBAs. HRA VEBAs have grown in popularity in recent years as public entities and non-profits continue to face budget challenges while trying to maintain competitive benefit offerings.
Part 2– Are You Getting the Maximum Value from Your HRA VEBA?:
What are the types of funding for HRA VEBAs?
How do HRA VEBAs compare?
How to avoid your HRA VEBA being discriminatory?
Do you understand the role in selecting and maintaining investments tied to HRA VEBA?
Have you considered how your HRA VEBA interacts with other pre-tax plans?
Recorded 3/24/21
We are excited to offer this two-part webinar series on HRA VEBAs. HRA VEBAs have grown in popularity in recent years as public entities and non-profits continue to face budget challenges while trying to maintain competitive benefit offerings.
Part 1– What are HRA VEBAs and How Do They Fit into Benefit Strategies?:
What is an HRA VEBA?
What you need to know about an HRA VEBA.
Where does an HRA VEBA fit into retirement and benefit strategies?
Five key questions to ask about an HRA VEBA.
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