This just goes to show that wellness touches many parts of the employee experience, and your organization plays a vital role in creating initiatives that support a healthier employee experience. On a larger scale, the cost of healthcare is rising, with over $576 billion lost annually due to poor employee health. Getting Started The following were adapted from the 7 WELCOA Benchmarks —which I keep posted near my desk to track client progress as they hit each benchmark. MORE

Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? And one very good example of effective onboarding / induction technology is the product provided by this blog’s sponsor, iCIMS. This system helps ensure employees are productive as quickly as possible - having access to all the information they need, and being able to provide their own data online. E4S David Guest on Engagement (why would employee. MORE

When people talk about aspects that make a company a great place to work, the main factors that most of them take into account are compensation paid to employees and brand value of the company. Is it going to be high-performance, with motivated and energized employees or low-performance, with dull and unfulfilled employees? Apply employee performance metrics to retain key employees. As the boss, you should be ready to either coach your employees up or out. MORE

An Engaged Employee is the Holy Grail for any business. With enumerable aspects linked to Employee Engagement, it has become a matter of critical interest for any organization to drive growth and opportunity. “Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” Not Engaged: Employees who perform at the bare minimum level of performance and have less emotional attachments to their workplaces. MORE

Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? Productivity and labour cost remain important measurements; these are the tools investors, lenders and businesses use to benchmark progress (or lack of it). They are very good at telling a CEO how the business is performing today relative to its peers, but not at indicating whether the organisation is investing enough in employees to generate future growth. MORE

Stress occurs in a wide range of work circumstances but is often made worse when employees feel they have little support from supervisors and colleagues, as well as little control over work processes.” And as already reviewed above: Workplaces advised employees to work from home. MORE

Inform you about the HR benchmarks that matter to you. MENTAL HEALTH CHARTER SEMINAR. Mental Health Charter Seminar – 10.30am – 12.30am. Do you know how to intervene early when employees are struggling? In one day, this seminar will: Enable you to stress test your current template so you can identify which clauses in your template contract of employment need to be updated. Employee Engagement Webinar. Time to get your diaries out. MORE