Healthcare cost trends have long been moving in the wrong direction. Some employers have successfully reduced the upward trajectory of health-related expenses with health and wellness programs, but wide variations exist in program performance. Newer approaches to health and well-being based on recent advanced in science and research significantly improve outcomes.
ANCILE uPerformTM is an authoring and content management tool that lets large and small organizations create and deliver targeted, high-quality learning content and information to employees. With uPerform, authors with no programming or multimedia experience can easily create, edit, and publish high-quality procedures, Adobe® Flash-based simulations and eLearning courses. To manage this information across the organization, uPerform enables authors to store, organize, manage, and distribute their content to the entire workforce via the web. ANCILE uPerform also allows employees to share knowledge and collaborate seamlessly via discussion boards, subscriptions, and personalized context-sensitive learning and support information.
As the U.S. economy recovers (even if slowly and unevenly), employers are starting to see a candidate landscape that is vastly different from the one they have witnessed over the past few years. The job pool continues to contain the skilled candidates who lost their jobs during the recession, of course. But it will soon also be flooded with candidates who survived the recession with their jobs intact and have become emboldened to seek new opportunities as the future looks brighter.
Senior leadership teams can and do evolve new mindsets. Individuals, teams and entire organizations adapt, grow, and prepare for future challenges. They learn to change what they do and how they do it. As a result, they have grown "bigger minds for solving bigger problems."
The traditional business beliefs that brought success in the past will not bring success in the future. Whether you call today’s business environment the “new normal,” the “not normal,” or just plain unsettling, you know the old ways aren’t working. People are skeptical about their relationships with business. Whether they are customers, sales partners or employees, all are looking for relationships with organizations they can trust … organizations that care … organizations that align with their values. Yet the search is arduous and difficult. Too often, the real story is that businesses view people as a means to their profit end rather than as stakeholders in creating shared value. By Mary Beth McEuen, Vice President, Executive Director, The Maritz Institute
Report Background – The Total Employee Mobility® benchmarking survey has been conducted annually since 2005. This Total Employee Mobility Benchmarking SnapShot highlights how organizations reported on costs, challenges and benefits of the mobile workforce. Areas of mobility include Business Vehicles, Business Travel, Corporate Aircraft, Domestic Relocation, International Assignments and Virtual Office. The mobile workforce continues to be a strong presence at 45%. Costs also remain significant at $7,350 per employee. a Whitepaper by Runzheimer International
Mission Critical Perspectives from the Executive Suite. A Whitepaper by Jeffrey Yip, Chris Ernst, and Michael Campbell, Center for Creative Leadership
Research shows that leaders can improve their performance simply by becoming more self-aware. In fact, it is critical for leaders to recognize their own strengths and weaknesses in order to reach their potential and avoid derailment. Findings suggest that blind spots are most common in areas related to adaptability, creativity, and assessing talent.
If employees aren’t engaged, employers have wasted the money and time invested in the initiative. A LifeSynch, a Humana Company Whitepaper
Practical tactics to maximize FSA participation generating payroll tax savings for employers and employees. An Executive Briefing by David Meckle – Director of Participant Communications, SHPS, and Bart Turney – Director of Government Marketing & Communications, SHPS. September 2010