Employee Benefits & Financial Education
When people ask me where I developed my business skills, which, being a little in my forties are fairly broad, I like to see it as a chance to comfort them with a very clear fact – pretty well all the work I do, from SEO to social media management, photography, article writing, public presentations and website design and development, I learnt on the job.
Usually this question arises because someone is talking to me about improving their career prospects, and wondering how they ever get to where I’ve ended up now. Learning on the job is pretty well half of the truth. The other half isn’t so palatable – the 16-hour days for weeks if not years on end.
But for all that I made sure I developed skills along the way, most of it wasn’t a conscious activity. It happened by osmosis or accident. Was it encouraged by the employer – for all the enlightened media organisations and magazines I worked for, I can honestly say that only one – Universal Magazines – ever cared about staff development enough to run me through a few courses.
Invariably those courses were focussed on making me a more skilled employee – not making me a more rounded out human being. Though of course being a skilled employee is usually also a vital part of becoming a more holistically-content human being.
Future Map is a collaboration between Alisdair Barr and Zoe Lamont offering financial education programs as part of employee benefits a progressive employer can offer staff.
To me, coming too often from the dark ages of employee development, this is a futuristic notion indeed.
Giving employees the chance to step back from the corporate furnace and consider ways that they can better use their income – in the sober environment of the place where they earn those funds – is a genuine gift by an employer to individual staff members.
Alisdair and Zoe fly around Australia delivering such workshops and report that 12 months on from their workshops, employees give the feedback that their lives are more on-track in regards to dealing with mortgages, family costs, savings and having a more optimistic attitude to their future.
As an entrepreneur who has ‘failed’ more than I’ve successes, I look forward to them running a course to help entrepreneurs plan more hopeful life paths. It can be daunting knowing that, for example, you might have ploughed everything you’ve got into a business for five or even ten years and you know that if it goes belly-up, there’s no back-up of saved superannuation – there really may be the prospect of having nothing unless someone like Alisdair or Zoe has got inside your head.
For the record here’s the SEO Result we got for Future Map – a #1 organic ranking on Google for the highly competitive search term “employee programs” – #1 out of 340 million search results! For more about our “Conquer Your Industry” search engine optimisation programs call 1300 321 814.
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