Benefits Growth Network and member agencies prepare for BGN Live!, its annual networking event.
August 11, 2010 – St. Louis, MO – The Benefits Growth Network membership is coming together for its inaugural networking event, BGN Live! The independently owned, non-competing benefits agencies will share and learn through a series of networking opportunities, presentations, idea-exchanges, and participant workshops.
Kevin Trokey, Benefits Growth Network president, explains that, “Networking is an important part of our member experience. We’ve structured this event so networking and learning are happening throughout the conference by means of member participation and collaboration through workshops. Everyone will get the chance to speak and share ideas.”
The BGN Live! conference, held in Dallas, will focus on the strategic HR role that benefits agencies must be teaching and helping their clients achieve within their organizations. Sessions include presentations, agency panel discussions, and group workshops:
• Our Evolving Role - HR as a Strategic Driver
• Dynamic Benefits Communication: How Tos that Create Results
• Health Care Reform: Communicating as an Opportunity
• Understanding Employee Cost Drivers
• Developing Value Added Services
• Member Idea and Best Practice Exchange
Featured speaker, Jennifer Benz of Benz Communications, will help agencies make the business case for investing in benefits communications, and she will provide a tactical look at how to overhaul a benefits communication program to enhance the value and improve use of programs.
About Benefits Growth Network
Benefits Growth Network, based out of St. Louis, MO, is an international membership-based consulting firm specializing in growth strategies for independently owned employee benefits agencies and brokerages. Through the exclusive Benefits Growth System™, members get individualized planning, coaching, training, use of proprietary systems and access to a network of thriving benefits agencies. For more information about Benefits Growth Network, visit www.benefitsgrowthnetwork.com.
