Keep your team covered with top-tier health insurance from just ₦7,000/$4.40 per employee monthly
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In Today's Email:
- Wondering where to start with benefits?
- A comprehensive guide to employee performance management for CEOs
- AI Tool Of The Week 🤖: Leena AI is a virtual assistant that enhances your employee experiences in HR, IT, and more
- Opportunity Of The Week 💡: Apply for the Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator 2025
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THE BIG IDEA
Wondering Where to Start with Benefits?
When it comes to offering employee benefits, many companies struggle to identify the best options for their team. However, one benefit that’s almost always essential is health insurance.
Did you know that, according to the 2022 Employee Benefits Survey Report, 87% of employees value health benefits?
Forbes also discovered that 67% of employees and 68% of employers believe employer-covered healthcare is the most important benefit in 2024.
So, if you’ve wondered where to start, providing your employees with a health insurance is a great foundation for laying every other benefit.
Now that you know why offering health benefits is so important, it is essential to choose a provider who shares your philosophy. You need a provider who:
- Offers a comprehensive range of employee benefits and coverage
- Reviews your plan annually to ensure the plan is the best it can be for your organization
- Has great technology to make the everyday administration of your plan easy
Employee health benefits don’t have to be complicated. Zencare stands out as a reliable health insurance provider for top organizations, starting at just ₦7,000/$4.40 per employee per month.
By selecting the right health insurance provider that fit your employees' needs and budget, you can attract and retain talent while ensuring you’re effectively supporting your team.
OPINION PIECE: ONEKPE REGINA
Challenge Of The Week 🎯
Limiting your exposure to news media can significantly reduce anxiety and stress, especially when the news is often negative or distressing. Take a break from the news, it gives you a chance to focus on personal growth and enjoy more joyful activities.
Reliable And Affordable Health Insurance
Discover peace of mind with ZenCare for just ₦7,000 per employee per month! Our comprehensive health insurance plan keeps your team healthy and your business thriving. From routine checkups to major surgeries, ZenCare covers it all, ensuring your employees get the care they need without the hassle.
Flexible, reliable, and affordable—ZenCare is the smart choice for businesses that want to invest in their team’s well-being. Secure your team’s future with ZenCare today!
Learn From The Best ✍️
What I’ve Learnt: Thierry Ngutegure, Head of Insight, Journey Further
What’s your best failure?
My self-belief sometimes has its own gravity, and that gravity crushed me when I tried to become a stand-up comedian. Why did no one stop me!?
On the upside, being laughed off multiple stages at a really young age, has given me incredibly thick skin. I love presenting to crowds now; there’s nothing they can say that I haven’t heard before.
HR Insights Featuring The HR Digest
How to Write an Employee Reprimand Letter and Set Things Back in Order
Leaders are often tasked with the unfortunate job of writing and sending out employee reprimand letters when workers step out of line. Writing disciplinary letters is just as unpleasant for the sender as it is for the receiver who has to read the letter, which is why it is natural to resist the need to send these letters out.
In most cases where employees have to be reprimanded, a conversation with them is usually sufficient to convey the severity of the issue and reestablish the ground rules of what behavior is and isn’t acceptable within the workplace…
Meme Of The Week 😂
Where You Should Be 🌍
Blockchain Builders Meetup (Powered by Stellar)
The team will be live at Nairobi, Kenya to network with builders (developers, engineers, data scientists, founders) with blockchain ideas and projects for Africa, and will be exploring how the Stellar and/or Soroban blockchain network can help those ideas and projects build and scale!.
Come network and listen to stories of founders in Kenya who have applied the Stellar/Soroban technology to solve problems on the continent. There'll also be pitchathons featuring members of the Stellar Surge community. Grants and prizes to be won.
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Recommended Read 📚
A practical guide to managing your attention--the most powerful resource you have to get stuff done, become more creative, and live a meaningful life
Roundtable 🔄
Workplace Culture 👥
Marc Andreessen believes 70% of junior hires will be successful in a company, but only 50% of senior hires will. Do you agree?
Investing News & Opportunities 💰
- OpenAI is reportedly in talks to close a new funding round at $100B+ valuation
- Top 10 performing stockbrokers in Nigeria by value of transactions
- Following his recent acquisition of 9Mobile, Thomas Etuh is reportedly joining forces with the TY Danjuma family for another acquisition
There’s More To Being A Leader🎖️
- How to hire a CTO by Eric Johnson
- Know which benefits to offer your employees
- A comprehensive guide to employee performance management for CEOs
- Opportunity Of The Week 💡: Apply for the Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator 2025
- AI Tool of the Week 🤖: Leena AI is a virtual assistant that enhances your employee experiences in HR, IT, and more
Pro Tip To Take You Through The Week🌟
What’s Happening? 🤷♂️
While you were away at work, these 5 things happened:
- A tech executive was fired for public urination, he’s suing the company for $1.5m
- The World Health Organization nominated Dr. Faustine Ndugulile as the Regional Director for Africa
- Tigran's condition is worsening after six months of unjust detention in Nigeria
- Yelp sued Google, alleging a search engine monopoly that promoted its own reviews
- Telegram founder was charged with a wide range of crimes in France
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Written by Onekpe Regina, Osinachi Akanegbu
Edited by Oluwaseye Adesina
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