Benefits
How our workshops can help you and your employees

Everyone Benefits When Employees are Happier, Healthier, and More Focused

Our organization is focused on helping people with their finances and our MoneySmart Living program is designed to enable you to help your people do better with their finances - in an easy and cost effective way. What all this translates into is a stronger bottom line for everyone. You business will have more productive, focused employees and your employees will have healthier finances and greater financial peace of mind. Everyone benefits, and it's all built on the practical experience and hundreds of thousands of individual successes Canada's largest non-profit credit counselling organization has been learning from for over twenty years.

Strong Track Record of Practical Help & Education

The Credit Counselling Society has counselled and assisted hundreds of thousands of Canadians in solving their financial problems and drastically improving their financial situation. This work has led us into financial education and employee assistance and benefit programs. Our MoneySmart Living program is a natural extension of our vision, experience and proven track record of success. Businesses and organizations of all sizes and government bodies at all levels have come to rely on us for our practical insight and expertise at helping people improve their finances. They find it reassuring that we don't promote any commercial interest and have no vested interest in selling financial products. People love that we offer a wide range of workshops which are presented by trained financial educators. Our financial educators make things easy by providing a single contact person for you to arrange everything with. They also make sure that anyone attending one of our workshops has access to free, confidential one-on-one financial coaching and online resources if they would like more help with their situation.

Employer Benefits

As surveys now show, at least 1 in 4 Canadians are struggling with their finances. While it's tempting to think that these are some other people out there that we don't know, reality is that some of these people are likely our co-workers. Have you ever had trouble focusing on a task when an issue in your life was pulling on your emotions and/or preoccupying your thoughts? This is what can often happen when someone is battling financial problems in their personal life. It's very hard to leave it at the door when they step into the office, onto the shop floor, or onto the job site. With this realistic picture in mind, it's not surprising to learn that employers can see the following benefits from having their employees participate in our MoneySmart Living Program:

  • Increased staff productivity
  • Increased retention
  • Increased satisfaction
  • Increased engagement
  • Decreased health insurance costs
  • Decreased costs of absenteeism and lost productivity
  • Perception as an attractive place to work
  • Enhanced reputation for corporate social responsibility
  • Overall cost savings

Employee Benefits

Employees of course benefit too from our program. Here are some of the benefits they can experience:

  • Better job performance
  • Reduced stress
  • Physical and mental health issues reduced
  • Improved understanding and use of employee benefits
  • Better prepared for retirement
Support Your Employees

Employers who can support their employees through various stages of their life are more likely to have engaged and more productive employees.

Source: PwC – Employee Financial Wellness Survey (2016); Manulife & Benefits Canada; Financial Education in Workplace survey.