Happy face By working with an advisor who shares your own hope for your benefits plan, you take a huge step closer to a plan that can become a strategic advantage for your business. (Photo: Shutterstock)

When you're spending thousands upon thousands of dollars on benefits and seeing unimpressive results, being discouraged and disappointed is completely reasonable. Great health care has the potential to bring a lot of positive effects to your business, including improved employee retention rates, better talent recruitment, and reduced absenteeism. In order to receive the maximum impact, though, you need to stop settling for what your current benefits plan is and start imagining what it could be.

A positive mindset is one of the most important qualities an employer can possess when searching for ways to improve their plan, and here's why.

Rejecting an undesirable standard

In life and in the benefits industry, you should never settle for less than you deserve. That's just what many business owners are doing when it comes to their benefits plans, though. For years, employers have endured paying 5-6 percent more for their plans with each renewal, even though the quality of their plan has stayed the same or even decreased. There are better options out there, but many business owners remain stuck in this benefits rut, convinced that this standard is truly the best that they can get.

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