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Roll out your ESOP right

Cathy Ivancic2022-02-25T13:46:15+00:00February 25, 2022|Articles, Communicating ESOP Benefits, Featured, New ESOPs|

Congratulations, your company just put in an ESOP! Your executive leadership team is ecstatic. You have spent months, or maybe years, learning the technical details, thinking about the benefits and dreaming of the wealth-building possibilities for all employee owners. Now is your chance to tell your employees and your business contacts all about it. How are you going to communicate it? Your enthusiasm for the ESOP may not be as contagious as you might think. It takes work.

Be ESOP SMART in 2022

Cathy Ivancic2021-12-03T17:04:45+00:00December 3, 2021|Articles, Featured|

With 2021 almost over, it’s time to plan for 2022. Make the most of employee ownership by integrating SMART goals into your 2022 ownership culture and communication planning process. SMART goals are: S = Specific, M = Measurable, A = Attainable, R = Relevant , T = Time based. You can utilize SMART to create a clear ownership communications plan, execute the plan and evaluate your effort.

Safety Game Gets Employees Thinking at BSC Ventures’ Annual Meeting

Cathy Ivancic2021-12-03T17:04:21+00:00December 3, 2021|Articles, Featured, Skills for ESOP Ownership, Skills for ESOP ownership|

Do employees at your company roll the dice on safety sometimes? We all probably do, often without even thinking about it. Facing that challenge, BSC Ventures, a custom envelope manufacturer, had a new request for their ESOP annual meeting: let’s play a game that teaches our employee owners how important workplace safety is for all of us, our company and for driving ESOP stock value. That’s how the Workplace Development’s Safety Game was born!

Hands-on ESOP Education at Software Solutions and Onex

Cathy Ivancic2021-08-27T16:22:53+00:00August 26, 2021|Articles, Building Business Literacy, Featured, Skills for ESOP Ownership|

Experience is a powerful teacher. You don’t get a driver’s license just by reading about how to drive a car; you must practice driving the car, too! That’s why understanding your ESOP doesn’t end with one-way communication of the plan rules. In Workplace Development’s ESOP Game, employee owners dive into a business simulation where they actually feel what it’s like to make tough business decisions because they make them. They see the impact of their decisions and what influences the stock value in their ESOP accounts over the course of several years. Software Solutions Inc. and Onex Inc. said the ESOP Game brought ESOP concepts to life for their employees.

Employee Owners Learn How They Grow Stock Value

Cathy Ivancic2021-08-26T10:46:21+00:00August 26, 2021|Articles, Building Business Literacy, Featured, Skills for ESOP Ownership|

Does everyday work really impact company stock value? Absolutely! But sometimes it is hard to see. That’s why MKSK, a planning, urban design and landscape architecture firm, sought a way to help its employee owners learn how everyday actions contribute to value during their annual meeting in 2021. MKSK became 100% employee-owned in September 2019. Workplace Development’s Power of One Dollar learning activity was the perfect fit to illustrate to new employee owners how everyday actions add up.

Got Game for ESOP Month?

Cathy Ivancic2021-07-20T19:08:03+00:00July 20, 2021|Building Business Literacy, Communicating ESOP Benefits, Featured|

Is it time to start thinking about how to bring some new energy to your company for ESOP month? Are you looking for a new way to convey your critically important ownership message? In October ESOP-owned businesses across the United States celebrate Employee Ownership Month.

Preserving Human Connections at Equity Engineering Group

Cathy Ivancic2021-04-01T02:10:58+00:00March 31, 2021|Articles, Communicating ESOP Benefits, Featured, Skills for ESOP Ownership|

“It looked like we were going to kick off a year of talking about our company's core beliefs," says Theresa Riley HR Director for Equity Engineering Group. And then, the pandemic hit. Any hope for face-to-face conversations were dashed. “We had a new reality in which employees would have to transition to nearly 100% remote work.”

Transforming Employees into “CEOs”

Jim Bado2021-04-01T01:39:20+00:00March 31, 2021|Articles, Communicating ESOP Benefits, Featured, New ESOPs|

Are you communicating and training effectively to make the most of being employee-owned? MyPath faced the challenge of educating more than 2,000 employee owners spread across two states in nine different companies about what it means to be an owner. The human services company’s innovative, successful solution: the creation of a Certified Employee Owner (CEO) education program.

Building Your Ownership Culture When Holding Meetings is a Challenge

Jim Bado2021-05-25T13:04:09+00:00November 22, 2020|Articles, Communicating ESOP Benefits, Featured, New ESOPs, Skills for ESOP ownership|

Since March, in-person ESOP meetings have been difficult to conduct. Given the current situation, here are two strategies ESOP companies have used successfully with Workplace Development’s help to engage employees as owners. Click here to read the full article.

ESOP Game Business Simulation Goes Virtual

Cathy Ivancic2021-03-10T21:32:41+00:00November 22, 2020|Articles, Building Business Literacy, Communicating ESOP Benefits, Featured, Skills for ESOP Ownership|

Expand business knowledge, learn about the ESOP, and have fun together. These were the goals when Delta Managed Solutions (DMS) scheduled the ESOP Game Business Simulation training. Click here to read the full article.