MP Benefits Perspective
Since 2001, MP Benefits Inc. has operated as an independent group benefit consultant, specializing in designing strategic employee group benefit plans to align with the corporate, compensation, culture, and wellness policies of each corporation.
Productivity
The Three Keys to Strategic Benefit Planning
Seldom are you ever locked into one benefit approach or plan design. In fact, you can change up your benefit plan design at any point in the year. You need not wait for the renewal. Plan design is like fuel efficiency in a vehicle or home. How your benefits are...
Make your next hire an Olympian
To reach for gold on the Olympic platform requires consistent training to purposefully improve both physically and mentally. While this sporting feat is reserved for the elite few, achieving career success gold is a wide-open field. In the beginning, some may say, it...
Applying the Industrial Athlete concept to Benefits
Thanks to Dr. Anthony Harris for first introducing MP Benefits Inc. to the Industrial Athlete concept originally coined in the United States when the ergogenic theory of sports medicine was applied to manufacturing sectors to improve the health, safety, and ultimately...
Consulting
The Alarming Reality of Business Transition Planning: Why You Can’t Afford to Wait
Guest posting from Cindy Reid, Ready For Next (RFN) Advisory Services Most business owners pour their heart, soul, and countless hours into building their companies. Yet when it comes to planning for the future of these businesses, the statistics tell a troubling...
The Sports Team
Imagine, for just a moment, that you have an opportunity to purchase your favourite sports teams. A life-long dream come true. Now what? It isn’t just the bricks and mortar; the jumbo screens and concessions stands—it’s the team—the people. And now you must take care...
Common Language
Remember the first time you used a walkie-talkie as a kid? Then running to a space where no one could see you, pressing the button and speaking into the mic with the usual “hello”, “okay” language of everyday. But that didn’t work, and soon someone would say, “no, no,...
Benefits
Blueberries
When I was a kid, I loved “home-made” blueberries. Nature made, more like, but who has the vocabulary as a child? I soon discovered, “home-made” involved a double whammy. Enjoying an ice cream on a warm summer day created the plastic quart container that we would be...
Building “Best-in-Class” Benefits
An organization considered “Best-in-Class” is deemed such, not by themselves, although they obviously have this as their goal, they are only considered “Best-in-Class” if their peers within their industry deem them as such. When compared to YOUR strongest competitor,...
Reminders for Seniors on Benefits
Making up five per cent of the total labour force, Statistics Canada shows that nearly one million people employed are aged 65 or older. For those with access to the employee group plan through their employer, here are some reminders common to the policies. Disability...
Compensation
When we get to “why” are we forgetting the value of other questions?
I can pull a help wanted ad from just about anywhere geographically in Canada, doing any occupation and I am going to see the title “Benefits”. The salary is listed within a range and the benefits are normally listed in point form or use the terms like “competitive”...
Group LTD Reminders
Once we are no longer “dependent”, income is the foundation of the lifestyle not just for the “now” but for the future. That’s one of the main reasons we work—to provide for the things we need and want. (Personal fulfillment, engagement, etc. are the subjects of other...
How to GROW a Penny
We earn. We save. We plan. We live. We spend. Then we often ask, what happened to MY money? Despite the fact that Canada stopped minting the penny on May 4th, 2012, we do know, without a doubt, that you can’t get to a dollar without watching your pennies. AND every...
Culture
Pulling it all together
An Accountant recently said, “a business has no worth without its people. I am nothing if I didn’t have the staff to get the job done and meet the deadlines. They are the reason we have clients.” This accountant is hiring a new professional. This person will spend the...
Between the financial lines
“Sell on price…lose on price” What does that really mean when it comes to a benefit plan? In all industries, there are always competitors out there willing to take on a new customer for a slashed costing. Undercutting the marketplace to gather new customers into the...
Performance Culture
According to experts in this field, a performance culture is one where the entirety of the organization shares a strong sense of purpose and alignment with core values. Productive and motivated members of the organization, at all levels from entry, to tenured, to...
Wellness
It doesn’t matter until matters
Why do we write so much about non-evidence maximums (NEM) on employee group benefit plans? Because these heart-wrenching e-mails usually accompany a disability claim. “… is unable to return to work and his LTD is not sufficient, is there any way he can update his...
Employee Mental Health Programs
This is a guest blog post from Benefits by Design (BBD) Inc. We're on a mission to help working Canadians promote and protect their health. wealth, and happiness, by delivering benefits by design. Employee mental health has been a hot topic since before the pandemic,...
The Principal of Honesty
Honesty is part of the human experience. We have an expectation that people will be truthful with one another in our dealings both personally and professionally. This virtue lends to a major component of our moral fiber. Not only does the practice of dishonesty erode...