1. Engaging Your Changing Workforce in New and Different Ways Kathy Kacher Career/Life Alliance Services, Inc.

2. Even the best designed Work/Life strategies will not achieve their desired results unless employees and managers understand and buy into the programs!

3. Research Studies Consistently Report That Most Organizations Do a Poor Job of Communicating To Employees 2008: Hay Group Insight Employee Opinion Database, only 35 percent of employees understand how their organizations’ reward/benefit programs work. 2008: Met Life Open Enrollment survey, 51% of employees stated that they didn't get the resources they needed to understand their organization's benefits offering. 2008: World at Work Study on Reward Communication, 7 percent of respondents judged their communications of reward strategy and philosophy to be “very effective,” and only an additional 26 percent judged their communications to be “effective.”

4. 2008 World at Work Study on Reward Communications

5. Time to Break Out……..

6. “Managed” Communication Must Have Three Primary Objectives: 1.To Ensure Understanding 2.To Change Perceptions (Get Buy-In) 3.To Motivate Behavior

7. This is where the fun starts…

11. Jill: Did you see the retirement planner? Jack: Yes, I tried it and I have decided to increase my 401K contributions

12. No matter how outstanding your Work/Life initiative is, you can be certain that positive results will NOT occur unless your communication program is successful!