If you are an employer than it is important to know how you can link your benefit plans to your organizational strategy. There are a couple of different ways that you can achieve this and knowing these ways will help make it much easier for you to get it done right. Here are the most important ways that you want to use to get your plans linked to your organization’s strategy. 1. The first thing you need to do is to be sure that your plan is a good and solid one. When you put together your strategy for your business, you want to take time to add the appropriate benefits. Just be sure they are ones that will most help your employees as well as your business. Some of the different benefits that employees look for are: - Flexible work schedules - Parental leave - Extra vacation time - Telecommuting - Assistance for education - Health insurance (This is one of the most important benefits they look for.) These are just a few of the benefit programs you can offer that will work well for you and your employees. Just be sure everything is written into the business strategy so it is easy to understand by everyone. 2. The next thing you need to do once you get the plan for the benefits done is to simply add it in writing to your strategy. By including it in the strategy for everyone to see you are linking it to it. You can also leave it separate and just put a brief statement in the business strategy that will link back to the page with information about it. Either way is fine and as you can see it is not hard to link it to your strategy. You just have to decide the best way for you to do it so that everyone knows about it. The one thing you don’t want to do is completely ignore it in your business strategy because then no one will even know it is available and this will not benefit anyone, you as the employer especially. Now that you understand better how to link your benefit plans to your organization strategy; all that remains is for you to get started. Don’t delay because the sooner the plans are linked with the business strategy, the better it will be for you, the employer and for your employees. Linking the strategy and the plans is not hard if you just take time to do it right. To locate lost plan participants or missing employees go to www.employeelocator.com Cathy Taylor is a marketing consultant and freelance writer. She can be reached at creativecommunications@cox.net
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