Delegate Registration

• Relationship between chronic diseases & economic burden.
• Principle of state health financing in Singapore.
• Challenges & opportunities presented by an ageing population.
  

• Different ways in which health contributes to costs for the organisation.
• The different components of Total Health Costs.
• Why, how & what aspects of these health impacts are important to consider for companies in Singapore and APAC region from the perspective of savings-driven health management.
• Measuring health impacts using different cost-impact measurement approaches.
  

Coffee/Tea Break

• Flexible Benefits today and trends for the future.
• Administrative & cost implications and solutions.
• Selecting the right benefits.
• Maximising returns by increasing flexibility.
• Impact on Work-Life.
  

Managed Care - How to manage the increase in the cost of Medical Benefits

• Why are HR Managers interested in Managed Care.
• How can Managed Care help manage the increase in costs.
• What is Managed Care.
• Advantages of long-term partnership.
  
  

12.30pm - 2.00pm

Networking Lunch

The New Weapon of Choice in the War for Talent: Using Financial Advice to help employees achieve success at work & in their personal lives.

• Impact of financial stress on your employees and business.
• Sources of financial stress for employees.
• Traditional financial solutions versus lifestyle financial planning.
• How to facilitate quality financial advice to employees - What are the Solutions?
• Financial planning at the workplace - trends in other countries.
• Case Study
  

Retirement Benefits – Time for Employer’s Involvement.

• The adequacy of statutory retirement benefits in Singapore.
• Understanding recent changes to the 'Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS).’
• Options open to Employers to leverage on the changes to SRS.
  

3.30pm - 4.00pm

Coffee/Tea Break

Mobile Employees - Slipping through the Pensions Net

• Issues associated with employee relocation.
• Managing pension for Mobile Employees including Tax implications.
• Educational benefits for children.
• Medical Benefits including overall portability.
• Conflicts between benefits for local employees and foreigners.
  

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Dr Elizabeth Nair, CEO
Work & Health Psychologists

Workplace Dynamics with a Maturing Singapore Workforce

• Dilemma of older employees & younger supervisors.
• Respect for age as a preferred organisational cultural norm.
• Mentoring role for older workers.
• Pay & benefits issues for maturing employees.
  

9.35am - 10.20am

Kelvin Chan, Business Leader, Health & Benefits
Mercer, Singapore

Portable Medical Benefits - History, Progress and Beyond

• Overview of macro-environment of the Singapore Healthcare scene.
• Background information & fundamentals of Portable Medical Benefits Scheme & basic medical insurance concepts.
• Issues relating to the introduction of Portable Medical Benefits into Employee Benefits Programmes.

Coffee/Tea Break

Oliver Freigang, Managing Director & Head
UBS AG Switzerland

Magdelene Lee, Director
CEFS Business Development APAC
UBS AG Singapore

Successful Execution and Management of Long Term Incentives (LTI)

• The types of stock plans used by Global Companies (i.e. SAR, ESPP, RSP etc)
• New ideas and possible combination on plan designs to improve employee benefit.
• Managing global & local employee approach to stock plan communication and implementation.
• Key areas and best practices that should be addressed in effective stock plan administration ( i.e. how to maximize the value of the stock plans for employee retention and engagement i.e. employee buy-in).
• Practical "take-home" tips to improve execution and administration.
• How you can use technology to ease your work & make your employees happy.
• The role of equity plans in the context of an Aging population.
• Case Studies.
  

Grace Tng, Head of Sales & Marketing
Accident & Health Division

ACE Insurance

Voluntary Employee Benefits: Giving your Employees the choice they deserve

• Introduction to Voluntary Vebefits Scheme - Is it no choice or by choice.
• No-frills appproach in designing a Voluntary Scheme.
• Getting everyone involved during the implementation stage - what and how.
• Challenges ahead.
• Case Studies.
  

12.30pm - 2.00pm

Networking Lunch

Key Ingredients to a successful Incentive and/or Recognition Program

• Do Incentives work.
• Is it best spend of marketing funds.
• Do I have to recognise my staff.
• What is the best recipe for succcess.
  
  

Matthew Smith, General Manager
The Extra Mile Company Singapore

Travel as an Employee Incentive

• What is Incentive Travel?
• Why use Incentive Travel.
• Incentive Travel Itinerary.
• Target Audience - Who gets invited.
• Pros & cons of Incentive Travel.
• Critical Success Factors.
• Allocating Budget.

3.30pm - 4.00pm

Coffee/Tea Break

Employee Engagement in Benefits Programmes = Win-Win?

• Customising needs & wants with appropriate benefits.
  
  

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Dr Elizabeth Nair, CEO
Work & Health Psychologists

Mental Wellness & Work Habits of the young Singaporean employee

• The shaping of the Singapore Workforce: National Service, Schools, Housing.
• Work ethos of the young Singaporean employee.
• Daily & weekly time-allocations for work & living.
• Interpreting mental wellness in context.
• Work-cycle of the young Singaporean employee.
  

David Lock, Managing Director, Principal Coach & Trainer
Arrows with Soul

State of Work-Life: Distilling Lessons & Working Challenges for Greater Traction

• Current state of Work-Life: What works & what does not.
• The New Economy and Work-Life as an imperative.
• Back to fundamentals: The DNA of Engagement.
• Clarifying the holistic approach to Work-Life & mapping effective strategies.
• Critical factors affecting Work-Life effectiveness: A fresh perspective.

Coffee/Tea Break

Miranda Mulyana, Consultant Psychologist
Human Dynamic Asia Pacific

Effective Strategies to drive Employee Engagement in Health & Wellness

• Assessing the health of your worksite & workforce.
• Why offer Health & Wellness Programmes.
• Type of Health & Wellness Programmes.
• Engaging employees in Health & Wellness Programmes.
• The ROI of Health & Wellness Programmes.
• Case Examples.
  

Kevin Menon, Chief Practice Officer
Human Dynamic Asia Pacific

Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP) for People Management Effectiveness

• Impact of modern life.
• What are Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP)?
• EAP as an Employee Benefit.
• EAP in the Asia Pacific Region.
• Track record and case examples.
• Implementing EAPs: Do's & Don'ts and Critical Success Factors.
• Can EAPs really help? The ROI of EAP.