About Us
Dickerson Employee Benefits, An Alera Group Company, delivers personalized services catered specifically to brokers and clients. A recent Broker Services Survey indicates that the top desirable trait ranked by human resource departments across the United States is effective communication channels. Eighty-three percent of HR departments expressed a greater need for prompt, effective services and responsiveness, with 79% also wanting regular employee communications from their brokers.
Since founding Dickerson Employee Benefits in 1965, our company has enjoyed a rich history of offering cutting-edge products and services for both fully insured and self-insured platforms. Our employee benefits consultation includes the development of robust communication programs that include:
- Employee Benefits Guide
- Enrollment and New Hire Video
- Employee Surveys
- Wellbeing Eblasts
- Posters/Postcards
- Communication Calendar
- Open Enrollment Presentations
- Compliance Notices
- Legislative Updates
- Educational and Training Video Library
Our consulting-based philosophy allows us to assist both brokers and clients with business strategy from all aspects of the workplace, from discovery meetings and pre-renewal conversations to program development and implementation, to monitoring and servicing throughout the plan year. With more than 55 years of industry experience, our team is more than qualified to guide you through selecting the best programs to match your company’s benefits and budgetary needs.
Our support doesn’t end with employee benefits. As a business consultant, we encourage an open channel of communication and welcome continuous dialogue so that we can better recognize and anticipate the direction of your company’s growth and future demands.
In addition to providing extensive support services for brokers, HR departments, their companies and individual employees, we offer a wealth of resources available to our clients at no extra cost. This includes online HR libraries and numerous workplace-specific training programs.
Dickerson also specializes in long-term strategy consulting, helping employees make smart financial decisions, including designing comprehensive retirement plans to make the most of your employees’ working years and in preparation for a golden life in the later years.
We invite you to explore our website, meet our friendly and professional team, visit our contact page and reach out to us with any inquiries. Welcome to Dickerson Employee Benefits, An Alera Group Company!
EXPERT EDUCATION
Events and Webinars
Employee Benefits
Finding, Using and Transitioning Out of a PEO
Your company is small, and limited resources make it difficult to manage a robust benefits program. Time to explore outside support from a professional employer organization (PEO). But where to begin?
April 18, 2024 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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Employee Benefits
Supporting Women’s Health Month: Trending Employee Benefits
In this session, we’ll talk about how employers are helping female employees and dependents be their best through every phase of life: From fertility, maternal care and parenting to peri/menopause, caregiving and mental health.
May 16, 2024 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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Q2 Compliance Update
Alera Group's quarterly employee benefits compliance roundup will help you stay current on the latest national regulatory developments impacting employers.
June 4, 2024 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Insights
Employee Benefits
Webinar: The Ins and Outs of PEOs
Providing employees with a robust benefits program is vital to attracting and retaining staff while growing an organization, but many small and medium-sized businesses lack the resources and time necessary to manage such a program. Professional employer organizations (PEOs) offer a solution. Alera Group's April 15 webinar, "Finding, Using and Transitioning Out of a PEO" will address the basics and help you strategize.
April 4, 2024
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Show Why Your Voluntary Benefit Offerings Make You an Employer of Choice
If you’re a business owner or benefits manager seeking to optimize your employee benefits offerings, you won’t want to miss Alera Group’s March 21 Engage webinar, "How Voluntary Benefits Inspire Employee Loyalty." During the one-hour session, our panel of Alera Group experts will discuss how voluntary benefits serve employers as well as employees, enabling employers to show they recognize the varied needs of their workforce by providing supplementary offerings in a cost-effective manner.
March 5, 2024
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Webinar: Weight-Loss Drugs and Group Health Plans | Alera Group
Rising pharmacy costs are among the chief drivers of healthcare expenses for employers and employees, thanks largely to a surge in use of drugs you’ve seen advertised in those ubiquitous commercials. Given the cost of such drugs and their mixed record of success, employers and employees should exercise caution.
February 6, 2024
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Employers, Employees and Job-Flexibility Tradeoffs
Faced with one of contemporary business’s most prominent dilemmas – allow work from home or insist on return to work? – employers and employees alike must come to terms with an axiom: Life is a series of tradeoffs. Join us on Thursday, January 18, for "The Value of Flexible Work: Alera Group’s Tradeoff Study."
January 11, 2024
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