What are the "bright spots," the strengths in your organization, that give you the strengths that you can use to leverage your future benefits communication and education efforts? The answer may require a little soul-searching.

Weve all heard that we learn more from our failures than our successes. But is that really true?

Things are looking bleak for both employers and their employees. Now more than ever, communication is critical. At the same time that benefits managers face changes within their companies, they also face challenges in keeping employee morale and productivity from dropping. In times like these, employers must address employees financial...

Questions coming into HR can be evaded with proactive communication if provided before open enrollment, and from a benefits planning approach, rather than once a year.

Though they are saving more, women have more obstacles in retirement and throughout their lives that hinder their ability to meet their financial needs.

If you’ve read about the alarming gender gap we’ve recently identified between men’s and women’s financial literacy, you might already know some of the risks it poses to plan sponsors from both a financial perspective and from a long-term cultural perspective.

I’ve talked to dozens of HR pros who tell me one of their biggest concerns these days is having employees who can’t retire because they haven’t saved enough. It seems to be growing clearer three years after the recession that this could be a potential black hole for plan sponsors.

Those who weren’t heeding the warnings about a coming retirement crisis before the Great Recession hit probably are now.