Roadmap for Success: Your Educational Partner Launch Checklist

Gather a group of leaders and managers across the organization to help you identify the best channels and how to communicate within your specific organization. These people can be excellent champions in your success. 

It’s important to take a purposeful approach to your intranet when communicating benefits, such as educational partners. We recommend sharing your tuition benefits alongside your educational partners, to inform and educate employees on their full benefits. 

Bring them in early and often. Functional leaders are likely looking to retain or upskill their team members and educational opportunities can help them do just those things! You want them to be the first to hear about benefits, so they’re ready to answer questions that arise from their employees. Consider emails and webinars so they’re aware of what is available and properly coached. 

This should include announcing DeVry University and Keller Graduate School as new educational partners. Make sure to highlight programs that are specifically valuable for your organization’s success. But don’t stop at just the announcement, be sure to continue to share the information and benefits, especially during Annual Enrollment. 

If your organization has breakrooms this could be a great opportunity to showcase reskilling and upskilling opportunities. We have flyers at the ready with QR codes so your team members can gain the information they need quickly. 

By having meaningful career conversations and aligning a relevant learning pathway to build the right skills, you can transforming the passive benefit of a tuition policy program into a powerful tool for development, engagement, and retention.

This eye-catching addition to any location—whether breakroom, facility floor, elevator, entry way—is a simple way to get the message out quickly. As a DeVryWorks partner you could have access to a custom video to help share tuition savings with your employees in seconds, complete with a custom QR code for quick access to benefits.

If you’re lucky enough to have an internal podcast at your organization, consider including an announcement about DeVry and Keller. We’re happy to organize a member of the team to participate in your next episode!

This is a great time to share or reinforce your continual learning culture. Also, look at your employer tuition benefits policy and see if you provide new hires that benefit from day one. If you don’t, ask yourself why? 

BRG leaders are looking for new ways to engage their groups. At DeVryWorks we’ve presented to a number of BRGs across various clients and topics. Oftentimes it just takes a quick introduction.

Did you know that we have trained event hosts ready to make your next team meeting stand apart?  We have a variety of event topics that you can select from in order to make sure the focus is spent on the places you see your team could grow.

A Tuition Reimbursement Program can help recession-proof your organization, attract and retain talent, close skills gaps and solve talent succession issues. 

If your organization puts together larger gathers like, quarterly business check ins, townhalls or monthly huddles. Perhaps there is time to reinforce the opportunity for teams to use your employer tuition benefits to continue to develop in their career.

What a great time of year to reinforce your tuition benefits and educational partners. Take the opportunity to shed light on all the great things your team has worked so hard to implement for the betterment of your organization and colleagues. 

Your leaders are most certainly hosting team meetings. Ensuring your leaders are aware of your employer tuition benefits and partner savings with DeVry could open up doors to further education. Also, bring in your DeVryWorks representative to help tell that story.

Do you have a recurring email or newsletter? What a great way to share this opportunity. If you need DeVry to help you with images or designs, we’re here to help.

Text messaging can be especially helpful to reach those workers that don’t have a work email address. Deskless workers could benefit just as much, if not more, from an educational pathway as their office-working colleagues to prepare them to pursue their next career ambition.