Open Enrollment from MetLife

Overview

Did you know employees spend an average of 30 minutes to select their benefits?

This is a crucial 30 minute window to maximize a company’s benefits investment.

The MetLife Open Enrollment Toolbox provides valuable resources and practical tools that can help address the challenges of annual enrollment. The Toolbox provides information and insights that you can leverage as you develop your strategies for a successful open enrollment.

Let Us Help You

To speak with a MetLife representative call 1-877-638-2862.

Tools

Practical Guides: Optimize Benefits Communications and Identify New Strategies for Open Enrollment

Download these simple guides to help you develop benefits communications and annual enrollment communication strategies.

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How to Simplify Benefits Communications

Benefits are complex. Simplified benefits communication can help busy employees make better benefits decisions during open enrollment. This guide provides four steps to simplifying your communication material.

Download the How to Simply Benefits Communications Guide

Simple Ways to Make Enrollment More Effective

Improving your enrollment communications may be easier than you think. This guide provides simple tips to help you make your enrollment communication more effective — which can lead to employees’ greater appreciation, participation and usage of their benefits.

Download Simple Ways to Make Enrollment more Effective

Trends to Watch

Keeping up with overall trends and technologies help to keep benefits and benefit communications relevant. This guide highlights four emerging trends and how they can apply to benefits communication.

Download Trends to Watch

How to Get Started with Social Media

Social media has transformed the way that we communicate. In fact, they can be effective communication vehicles to help you achieve your benefits goals, communicate more frequently and allow the opportunity to gather real-time feedback. This guide discusses ways to start using social media as part of your annual enrollment communication strategy.

Download How to Get Started with Social Media

Employee Surveys: Get a Read on Benefits and Communications Preferences

Pre-open enrollment season:

Survey your employees to help you determine which benefits your employees need help understanding and how you can improve employees’ enrollment experience.

> Download the Pre Enrollment Survey

Post-open enrollment season:

Use after open enrollment to examine the effectiveness of your benefits enrollment communications and determine which benefits your employees are most interested in having access to at the workplace.

> Download the Post Enrollment Survey

Podcasts & Videos

Podcasts

Get tips in a matter of minutes. Listen to short podcast episodes, focused on improving benefits communications, on your personal computer or download an episode to play later on a portable media player.

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Enhancing the Value of a Benefits Program with Communications

An effective benefits communication plan is often overlooked by employers, but research links effective benefits communications with greater employee satisfaction with their jobs, and, in turn, stronger feelings of loyalty. Learn practical suggestions for improving employee benefits communications and optimizing the overall value of a benefits program.

Speakers:

Ron Leopold: MD, MBA, MPH, Vice President, National Medical Director, U.S. Business, MetLife
Jennifer Benz: Chief Strategist and Founder of Benz Communications

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Maximizing Employee Participation and Engagement

With employees spending only 30 minutes making benefits decisions, employers have an opportunity to help ensure that this limited time is used most effectively. Learn four simple tips that can help employers more strategically use their benefits programs to meet business objectives as well as make a significant difference in the lives of their employees.

Speaker: Todd Katz, executive vice president, U.S. Business for MetLife

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Utilizing Wellness Programs

A healthier workforce, to the mutual benefit of all stakeholders, is likely to incur fewer medical and disability costs and remain most productive, yet wellness programs are an area typically underutilized by employers. There are several low cost tactics that can be taken to implement effective wellness programs and capitalize on the timing of open enrollment season.

Speaker: Ron Leopold, MD, MBA, MPH, Vice President, National Medical Director, U.S. Business, MetLife

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Videos

Technologies are encouraging employees to expect on-demand information and are redefining the ways employees obtain and use information to make decisions — including those about their workplace benefits. This two-part video captures highlights from a presentation Jennifer Benz, chief strategist and founder of Benz Communications, gave at MetLife’s 6th National Benefits Symposium. She discusses three emerging media trends and three ways employers can keep up with the ever-changing times.

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Part I: Technology Trends

This video focuses on the three technology trends that have shifted employee expectations. After viewing this video, you should better understand emerging trends to monitor and why benefits communications should keep up with the times.

Part II: Three Approaches to Communications

This video discusses three approaches to communications that employers can implement tomorrow to maximize their benefits programs. After viewing this video, you’ll uncover three simple ways to transform the way employee benefits are communicated.

Research

Open Enrollment at a Crossroads

Learn how employees think and behave during their company’s Open Enrollment and how workforce needs are changing. This paper provides practical tips on how to keep up with those changes.

> Download the White Paper

Three Steps to Closing the Underinsured Gap: Evaluate, Enhance & Educate

The workplace remains the primary source for employees to gain adequate life insurance coverage amounts. Yet many employees have not taken the steps necessary to ensure their families can maintain their standard of living should tragedy strike. Learn about the steps employers can take to help maximize the value of their group life benefits program and help address their employee’s underinsured needs.

> Download the White Paper

Everything Changed in the Blink of an Eye: Putting a Face on the Emotional and Financial Impact of Disability

Disability claims are often measured from a statistical perspective. This paper goes behind the stats and puts a face on the emotional and financial impact of disability. It highlights five steps that employers can take to help employees obtain the protection that they need, while helping employers to realize the benefits of a healthier and more productive workforce.

> Download the White Paper

Services

MetLife’s Onsite Services Capabilities

For employers with 3,000 or more employees, MetLife’s on-site services team can help you during Open Enrollment season by managing the enrollment process for you.¹

A MetLife Enrollment Manager will present you with an enrollment recommendation that includes:

An overall enrollment strategy
A timeline for implementation and deliverables
Recommendations for meeting locations & scheduling
Fully trained professional onsite resources

> Download the Onsite Services Capabilities Brochure

EnrollSmart^SM for Life — An Innovative, Turnkey Supplemental Life Insurance Enrollment Program

For employers with 1,000+ employees², EnrollSmart offers a smart, practical solution that will help you increase both the visibility and the value of your life insurance program through effective employee communications.

Maximize the value of the benefits you already offer
Set-up a complete enrollment program – at minimal or no cost
Help your employees use their benefits more effectively
Increase employee engagement and satisfaction with their benefits

> Download the EnrollSmart for Life Brochure

¹MetLife’s Onsite Services guidelines require a minimum customer size of 3,000 employees. Other parameters may apply. Please contact your Sales Office for further information.

² 1,000+ employees required for new enrollments, 3,000+ employees required for re-enrollment of existing customers.

Open Enrollment

Overview

Let Us Help You

Tools

Practical Guides: Optimize Benefits Communications and Identify New Strategies for Open Enrollment

Employee Surveys: Get a Read on Benefits and Communications Preferences

Pre-open enrollment season:

Post-open enrollment season:

Podcasts & Videos

Podcasts

Videos

Research

Open Enrollment at a Crossroads

Three Steps to Closing the Underinsured Gap: Evaluate, Enhance & Educate

Everything Changed in the Blink of an Eye: Putting a Face on the Emotional and Financial Impact of Disability

Services

MetLife’s Onsite Services Capabilities

EnrollSmartSM for Life — An Innovative, Turnkey Supplemental Life Insurance Enrollment Program

Employee Benefits Simplifier

Employee Surveys

EnrollSmart^SM for Life — An Innovative, Turnkey Supplemental Life Insurance Enrollment Program