Member Services for Employee Owned Businesses

Being an employee-owner is a great financial opportunity that can help your people build wealth, but it's not going to make them rich over night. How do you help people see what 10 or 20 years of wealth building means to them in the present day? This webinar will explain how to make the long-term financial impact clear to your employee-owners today.

Do you know how to communicate the value of employee ownership to every single person at your company? Are all your employee-owners engaged, or are there certain groups that just don't get it? Even companies that have been employee-owned for decades can have trouble messaging EO to younger employees, new employees, and the front line. This webinar will help you tailor your messaging so that you can reach every last employee-owner at your company. Specifically, we will discuss how to frame employee ownership with new vs. tenured employee-owners, younger vs. older people, and leadership vs. the line.

Members have been reaching out asking how to discuss valuation at their annual meeting in light of COVID-19. We’re hosting special office hours where we’ll initially present our thoughts and then will have a discussion where you can participate, ask questions, and share ideas.

The #1 best practice for building a culture of ownership is having a great EO Communications Committee. There is no substitute for a dedicated group of champions driving engagement with employee ownership. This webinar will cover everything you need to know about how you can be a part of a successful committee by being a great advocate for EO within your company.

Your company's annual meeting is a once-a-year opportunity to highlight how employee ownership makes you stand out, recognize the long-term financial benefit of ownership, and connect your company to the larger EO movement. This webinar will provide a sample agenda, presentation deck and best practices in order to make your upcoming annual meeting a success.

Employee ownership is an innovative approach to business that has advantages for business clients and partners. But it's also a new idea that many people aren't familiar with. Being employee-owned can set you apart, but how can you message employee ownership to external audiences in ways that will resonate? This webinar will feature the team at Butler/Till discussing how they leverage EO as a differentiator and create a strategic advantage for their company.

While employee ownership represents a better approach to business and an incredible opportunity for your employee-owners, one of the most common issues mentioned by EO companies is a difficulty getting a diverse and/or distributed workforce excited about employee ownership.

For the month of March we will be featuring two 30-minute webinars discussing two key EO financial tools: the Certified EO Wealth Calculator and the Annual Statement. In the second webinar, we will be discussing how to customize your wealth calculator and best practices for discussing it with your employee-owners.

For the month of March we will be featuring two 30-minute webinars discussing two key EO financial tools: the Certified EO Wealth Calculator and the Annual Statement. In the first of this series we will be discussing how to read your Annual Statement and best practices for discussing it with your employee-owners.

This interactive webinar explores how three conditions for rapid engagement - motivation, opportunity, and skill - work together to encourage the kind of meaningful participation that can give employee-owned companies a competitive advantage. It will be led by our partner Praxis Consulting Group, an organizational development firm that works with employee-owned companies and non-profit organizations to align leadership, culture, and strategy.

2020 was a year unlike any other. Due to the uncertainty and economic hardship of some industries, many employee-owned businesses may be faced with communicating a drop in share price at this year's annual meeting. This 30 -minute webinar will discuss strategies to clearly communicate a lower share price with your employee-owners, while providing ideas for positive messaging surrounding next steps and actionable items.

What is different about being a manager at an employee-owned business? While making employees owners can change lives, at the day-to-day level many of the normal rules of business still apply. This webinar will help managers at employee-owned companies understand what’s different, what’s still the same, and how they can help employee-owners move past common misconceptions to maximize engagement.