What CEOs May Not Know About Their Employee Health Plans
Given the high cost of coverage, companies are understandably looking for ways to save, but some short-term savings can mean long-term consequences for employers and employees alike.
Given the high cost of coverage, companies are understandably looking for ways to save, but some short-term savings can mean long-term consequences for employers and employees alike.
Creating a healthy workplace culture is worth it — for you and everyone on your team. When you empower your team members to be healthy versions of themselves for their families, everyone wins.
Business leaders are increasingly recognizing the benefits of looking beyond office walls in their efforts to improve their own culture of health and well-being.
Abortion is about as divisive a topic as exists in our society. Advice for navigating fraught waters.

New research on this issue shows some alarming trends. A look at how CEOs can improve support systems, reduce work absences, enhance job satisfaction, and decrease the likelihood of women leaving their jobs.
Many CEOs regard employee health benefits as a costly, but necessary part of doing business. Done right, it could be far more than that.
Conceding, in effect, implementation problems with the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration is delaying enforcement of a key provision of the new health-care law that requires large employers to provide coverage for workers or pay a penalty in 2014, the biggest revision so far to the federal health-care overhaul. The knock-on effects for business may prove significant.
The CEO of a company that helps consumers access vital healthcare data offers the top three considerations for leaders as they support employees through the Covid pandemic.
By redesigning their companies’ traditional health plans to become self-funded, three CEOs were able to pursue cost-containment strategies that eluded their control in the past.
How can you lead a company while changing diapers? That’s what some people asked Toms Shoes founder and CEO Blake Mycoskie when he told them he was going to take 12 weeks off when his son was born. Mycoskie said he thought just the opposite: How could he not take the time off?
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1:00 - 5:00 pm
Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns. They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning. Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process. This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented. If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form. The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.

2:00 - 5:00 pm
Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
Limited space available.

10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS
General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.