Beat Your Competition By Controlling The Cost Of Your Health Insurance

Written by Michael Ertel


As many of us expect,repparttar New Year will bring both tremendous challenges and opportunities for all of us both personally and professionally. Employers continue to facerepparttar 103397 major challenge of controllingrepparttar 103398 cost of their health insurance and other employee benefit programs. Organizations that can best get a handle onrepparttar 103399 cost of their employee benefit programs have an excellent opportunity to gain an advantage over their competition.

What are some practical ways to controlrepparttar 103400 cost of your health insurance? Here are a few suggestions:

1) Investigate all of your traditional and consumer directed health plan options. Many companies are easing into consumer directed plans by offering them as part of a "dual choice" program.

2) Out of network benefits. If your PPO network has adequate access to network providers, plan designs that strongly encouragerepparttar 103401 use of preferred providers save premium and claim dollars whilerepparttar 103402 insured still getsrepparttar 103403 needed care at a discounted rate.

The weaker sex can pack a mean punch in business!

Written by Marsha Maung


Judging fromrepparttar title itself, you’re probably expecting a men-bashing article aboutrepparttar 103396 kind of injustice that men cause women and about how women should learn how to hold their can of pepper spray in hand (facingrepparttar 103397 right direction, of course, unlessrepparttar 103398 women plan to blind themselves)repparttar 103399 moment they catch a whiff of a MAN.

Well….er, no. Not really.

I am here to explain and give some good examples of why and how women can do what they want to do in business and reap full benefits ofrepparttar 103400 structure that they have chosen to adopt. I want to encourage them and tell them that women can make good business owners.

Women in business are better in dealing with people, i.e, business will be better simply because ofrepparttar 103401 fact that women have higher levels of emotional intelligence (EI or EQ). What does emotional intelligence have to do with business? A whole lot, if you ask me. Let’s, first, define emotional intelligence inrepparttar 103402 business context, shall we? EQ is defined quite loosely as ‘social skills and ambition or self/personal strength’. If a person have high EQ, he or she (staying safely onrepparttar 103403 fence for now, until conclusion) is better able to deal with problems at work, better at finding solutions, is better able at controlling emotions and regaining strength after a down fall. They can communicate better with others, winning them brownie points easily, in terms of bringing inrepparttar 103404 business.

It seems that a person with high EQ (man or woman) is 67% more likely to be successful in business. And consideringrepparttar 103405 fact that women, generally speaking, have higher EQs, we can safely say that they are better as business people.

In order to be successful in business, you need 1/3 of IQ, 1/3 of social skills and 1/3 of drive and ambition.

And here’s another reason why I think women are better business people. According torepparttar 103406 Millionaire Mind, ‘being honest with people’ and ‘getting along with people’ is ranked #1 and #3 asrepparttar 103407 needed ingredients for becoming a millionaire. And isn’t it a coincidence that women have both these skills as naturally as they come.

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