T5 / Get what you pay for: Giving employees a healthy understanding of their medical care options

Date: Tuesday, 28 June
Time: 10 - 11:15 am
Track: Employee communication

In 2004 Honeywell launched a major effort to educate and engage their 60,000 U.S.-based employees regarding the relationship between cost and quality in U.S. health care. Learn how Honeywell, in partnership with Watson Wyatt, created a health care learning curriculum (one that wasn't afraid of using hard facts) focused on creating reasonable expectations of accountability and action.

You'll learn about:

• How a major global organization engaged their employees as change agents
• How communication plays a major role in behavioral change
• Emerging ROI from this ground-breaking approach to change

Presenters / Jodi Hutchison / New Jersey, USA, is director, organization & benefit communications at Honeywell. She has broad experience in the communication field and has held roles in HR communication, benefit communication, internal communication, marketing and public relations in the pharmaceutical, transportation, information systems and services, and aerospace industries.

Kathryn Yates / Illinois, USA, is Watson Wyatt’s communication global practice director. She has more than 20 years of experience in communication and operations management and is accomplished in all aspects of employee communication and change management. She has particular expertise in helping organizations develop strategies and programs to build strong, productive employee-employer relationships.