Legal & General : Protection launches new HR Toolkit – making customised communication accessible to all

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Legal & General Group Protection launches new HR Toolkit - making customised communication accessible to all

• Legal & General applies strategic Internal Communication techniques to employee benefits and wellbeing programme communication in this easy-to-follow toolkit for employers and intermediaries
• A series of supportive educational and training resources will also be rolled out in the coming months, helping employers and intermediaries build the business case for better communication and budgets to support delivery
• The HR Toolkit will provide a potential new revenue stream for intermediaries

Legal & General today announces the launch of its HR Communication Toolkit; a six-step guide, including templates, examples and checklists, to help employers boost the value of employee benefits and wellbeing.

The toolkit has been developed based on research commissioned by Legal & General Group Protection. The Wellbeing at Work Barometer* asked UK companies and employees about their experiences of wellbeing in the workplace. Using insights from the report, Legal & General's new HR Communication Toolkit combines strategic internal communication techniques to help employers:

• Integrate benefits into a wider wellbeing programme - 'Customised communication' was considered the top way to help integrate benefits with a wellbeing strategy in the workplace, by two fifths of the businesses surveyed.
• Ensure that the programme is purpose-led, aligned with both HR and business goals and measurable - One in three Line Managers said what would help them improve wellbeing support to the team/s they manage was 'Clear direction from the top on company purpose and values and how wellbeing fits in'.
• Collate and combine data to ensure value creation for people and for business - A third of employers said that the implementation of wellbeing in their organisation would be improved by the 'ability to more easily share data with trusted external partners (insurers and intermediaries), to gain help in designing and communicating programmes that will be valued'.

Suzanne Clarkson, Managing Director of Coach House Communications, who has 20+ years' experience in the employee benefits and wellbeing sectors, across external and internal communication disciplines, partnered with Legal & General to design the toolkit and associated material. She comments:

• The need to improve benefit and wellbeing communication was growing pre-pandemic and has accelerated rapidly since, as leaders put human risk on a par with commercial risk. There's now a load of pressure on HR to 'do better' when it comes to communication, but they don't necessarily have the time, skills or resource. So, it's really encouraging to now see a provider putting its weight behind this imperative. And doing it in a way that centres on helping employers get much more purpose-led, targeted and effective with their communication, instead of just doing more of the same. The toolkit is designed to prove as useful to an SME looking for communication self-sufficiency, as it is for intermediaries of all sizes looking to widen their consultancy offer to clients."

The toolkit is available as a free download from the dedicated webpage on Legal & General Group Protection's employer siteand adviser centre. Additionally, the provider says it will roll out a series of supporting content over the coming months to help equip intermediaries with the knowhow to use the toolkit with clients, in a way that might lead to a potential new revenue stream.

Jo Elphick, Marketing Director at Legal & General Group Protection, added:

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"We have heard from surveys through the years with both employers and employees, that the key to unlocking value from any benefits investment is communication. A common approach has been to do more, and while intranets and other channels have emerged, this continues to be an issue. We have tried to break down and simplify the approach so that both employers and advisers get this much needed support. It's a big shift away from traditional provider support on benefit communication, but our feedback and research tell us that it's much needed as employers strive to get more joined-up, purpose- led and efficient. And in turn, helping their people be well, get better and be supported. Watch this space for more from us on the ongoing support we'll be providing to help clients and intermediaries consider the toolkit as the basic foundation for all benefit and wellbeing programmes in the future."

Legal & General adviser centre HR Toolkit -https://www.legalandgeneral.com/adviser/workplace-benefits/group-protection/hr-toolkit

Legal & General employer site HR Toolkit -https://www.legalandgeneral.com/employer/group-protection/hr-toolkit

Notes to editors

*Wellbeing at Work Barometer. Legal & General Group Protection commissioned Opinium in August 2021 to research 1,003 senior managers and 1,000 employees (middle managers and below) in businesses over 250 employees. These findings were combined with SME research findings carried out by the provider in partnership with Opinium in May 2021 among 1,055 employees (middle managers and below) in businesses with 10-249 employees and 1,011 senior managers in business with 10-249 employees.

About Legal & General

Established in 1836, Legal & General is one of the UK's leading financial services groups and a major global investor, with international businesses in the US, Europe, Middle East and Asia. With almost £1.3 trillion in total assets under management*, we are the UK's largest investment manager for corporate pension schemes and a UK market leader in pension risk transfer, alternative asset origination, life insurance, workplace pensions and retirement income. Through inclusive capitalism, we aim to build a better society by investing in long-term assets that benefit everyone.

* at 30 June 2021

About Legal & General Insurance (LGI)

Legal & General Insurance (LGI) has been offering life insurance cover since 1836 and is the UK's number one individual life insurance provider. Our group protection business in the UK offers life insurance and income protection products to individuals through their employers and we offer term-life insurance in the US. We now have over 5.5 million UK life insurance policyholders, 1.8 million people in group protection schemes and approaching 1.3 million US term-life insurance policyholders. Here in LGI, we protect our customers and their loved ones throughout life and death. https://www.legalandgeneral.com/employer/

Further information

Name: Suzanne Clarkson	Name: Margaret Ousby
Role: Managing Director	Role: PR & Social Media Manager
Division: Coach House Communications Ltd	Division: Legal & General Insurance
Tel: [phone]	Tel: [phone]
Email:[e-mail]	Email:[e-mail]

Legal & General Assurance Society Limited. Registered in England and Wales No. 00166055. Registered office: One Coleman Street, London EC2R 5AA. We are authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.