Resources for HR Leaders
Our most popular webinars, eBooks, toolkits, guides, and blog posts for HR Leaders
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At Launchways, we help HR leaders ensure compliance and build high-impact benefits programs that make employees happier and healthier. On this page you’ll find our most popular downloadable toolkits, educational webinars to stream on-demand, and curated blog content.
Do your employee benefits help your team live happier, healthier lives?
How to Build a Benefits Program That Makes Employees Happier & Healthier
The Step-by-Step Process to Build a High-Impact Benefits Program
The Lowdown on Wellness Benefits: What They Are and How They Can Help Your Business
How to Use Telemedicine to Build a Happier, Healthier Workforce
Concerned about compliance?
What HR Leaders Must Know About FFCRA Leave Documentation
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) launched last month, temporarily expanding paid sick and FMLA leave for employees of businesses with headcounts of fewer than 500 as part of the national COVID-19 response. The follow-up CARES Act provided payroll...
read moreYour Employees’ Leave Rights Under the FFCRA and How to Discuss Them With Your Team
The COVID-19 outbreak is changing nearly everything about how we work and do business. And if changing work conditions weren't enough for employees to deal with, they also have to navigate a host of new federal policies including temporarily expanded sick leave and...
read moreWhat HR Leaders Need to Know About In-Person I-9 Verification Deferrals
Filling out form I-9 is a standard onboarding procedure for any new hire. The new employee fills out Section 1 and provides supporting documentation of their identification and work-eligible status; then an HR professional makes copies of that documentation, completes...
read moreHow to Create a COVID-19 Addendum for Your Employee Handbook
COVID-19 is continuing to affect our ability to do work in the way we’re all used to. For billions of workers around the world, there has never been a greater time of uncertainty and concern. In order to continue the work effectively, you need to address those...
read moreHow to Adapt to the New Illinois Sexual Harassment Training Requirements
Governor Pritzker signed the Workplace Transparency Act in August of 2019 and this January, the new law went into effect. While many people, business owners and employees alike, welcomed the law as appropriate in the #MeToo era, employers are grappling with how to...
read moreLaunchways Hosts Compliance Webinar on Recreational Marijuana Legalization
In June 2019, Illinois became the 11th state in the country to legalize the use of recreational marijuana. This January, that law went into effect and was met enthusiastically by Illinoisans: newly legal dispensaries did $10 million in business in the first week...
read moreLooking to revamp your performance management processes?
The Future of Performance Management: How to Modernize Your Approach
Creating a Culture of Constant Assessment & Feedback
Creating an Ongoing Feedback Loop for Employee Performance Management
Modernizing Your Approach to Performance Management
Are you an HR leader looking to become more strategic?
How to Build an HR Business Case: The Modern HR Leader's Complete Guide to Metrics, Analytics, and Proving ROI
Top 10 HR Challenges Growing Businesses Must Prepare For in 2020
For HR Leaders: How to Have More Productive Conversations with CFOs
Why Data-Driven HR is More Important Now Than Ever Before
Make the most of your open enrollment season
Open Enrollment: The Complete Toolkit
How to Have a Successful Open Enrollment This Year
The Top 5 Challenges of Open Enrollment (And How HR Departments Can Manage Them Successfully)
Diversity & Inclusion Resources
The Complete Diversity & Inclusion Toolkit
Everything You Wanted to Know About Workplace Diversity & Inclusion But Were Too Afraid to Ask
Building a Data-Driven Approach to Diversity & Inclusion
How Leaders Can Create an LGBTQ-Inclusive Workplace
Considering changing benefits brokers?
Resources to guide your search
How to Maximize The Value of Your Employee Benefits Spend
Discover Better Benefits with a Boutique Employee Benefits Broker
Is Your Broker Your Brother-In-Law? Reevaluating This Strategic Relationship
Do You Know if Your Benefits Broker is Doing a Good Job? 5 Questions to Ask
The latest from the Launchways blog
Actionable Strategies to Combat the Healthcare Cost Problem Created by COVID
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created a new dynamic within the US healthcare system, leading to increased healthcare costs being passed onto employers. During this economically challenging time, it’s more important than ever before that employers are strategically...
read moreFour Reasons Employers Should be Concerned About COVID Impacting Healthcare Costs
This post continues our ongoing series of articles on how COVID will impact employer healthcare costs. In today’s blog, we'll discuss four ways that COVID will likely lead to increased costs for employers. As healthcare providers begin to reopen and quarantines are...
read moreShould you outsource essential business functions? Key Considerations
This is a guest post written by Launchways strategic partner, Larry Levy of CFO Options. Have you thought about outsourcing some function of your business but now sure if you should? Maybe you’re uncomfortable outsourcing something that you think should be handled by...
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