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Financial Wellness in 2010 – Open Enrollment Tips

As November fast approaches, you are likely beginning to receive important communications about Open Enrollment. If you’re like many employees, you may have already decided to just stick with your current elections – after all, they seem to have worked out well enough. This year, more than others in the past, taking a passive approach to Open Enrollment may be an expensive decision.

What is Financial Wellness?

We all have a pretty good idea about what it means to be physically and mentally well. While we may not be perfect physical specimens, aside from the typical periodic aches and pains, everything is working reasonably well and we are able to handle even the unpredictable events that each day brings. For some, being financially well could mean doing lunch with Warren Buffet on the Learjet next week. For the rest of us Financial Wellness could very simply mean…that we are prepared. And when you think about it, most personal money diseases occur because, for whatever reason, we are not.

The GuideSpark Financial Wellness Center

The core of GuideSpark’s Financial Wellness Center is our new online learning service. Over the past few years we’ve experienced an explosion of new web technologies and services that have changed how online users interact and learn on the web. The GuideSpark solution leverages many of these latest trends of the consumer web to create a new learning solution designed for corporations and organizations. Our solution creates a high impact, rich media experience designed especially for today’s web information user. We hope our solution starts a new trend in corporate learning experiences.

Welcome to GuideSpark’s Financial Wellness Blog

Over the past 10 months we’ve been hard at work building out our new online learning service, so it’s great to publicly launch our new offering – a corporate solution for financial education and wellness. When we started the company earlier this year we didn’t realize how bad the economic situation would get, but our solution definitely comes at a time when financial issues and worries are top of mind for most US workers. We hope our solution provides people with the information and tools to put themselves on a solid financial path.