When working with management, make your presentations SHORT – 20-30 minutes maximum. Remember senior managers are busy and don’t like to sit through long presentations. 20 minutes is ideal, and leave time for questions at the end of the presentation. If it’s longer, you’ll lose their attention.
First, when giving any presentation, it is best to let your audience know ahead of time what you are going to be telling them about. This outline will not only help viewers retain information, but it will also hold their attention.
Nothing is worse than sitting at a long meeting with complex information and having no idea how much more you will be expected to learn or how much longer the presentation might go.
Let your staff know your presentation only take 30 minutes and covers the following:
1. What is Workers’ Compensation?
2. Who is covered?
3. Who pays for the insurance?
4. How are premium costs calculated?
5. Workers’ Comp fraud
6. Controlling Workers’ Comp costs
By starting with the basics, you ensure even those who have no idea will have their questions covered without having to ask. This eliminates an “I don’t care” response, which is often the result of “I don’t know.”
Another point to remember is under the section “Who pays” to include the actual numbers your company pays to keep your employees insured. This establishes trust. The company’s insurance premium, deductibles and administration cost may be included.
Include graphs. This is visually interesting and also is a very good way of showing what is expected and comparing it to your company’s reality. (workersxzcompxzkit)
For example, show a graph indicating you would like to get 90% of injured employee’s back to work, and compare it with a graph of your company’s’ current return to work results.
Remember: Review the outline at the end and thank your audience.
Author Robert Elliott, executive vice president, Amaxx Risks Solutions, Inc. has worked successfully for 20 years with many industries to reduce Workers’ Compensation costs, including airlines, health care, manufacturing, printing/publishing, pharmaceuticals, retail, hospitality and manufacturing. He can be contacted at: [email protected] or 860-786-8286.
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