Cerner, a healthcare IT company headquartered in North Kansas City, Missouri, incorporates innovation into the very fabric of its employee experience by merging the power of infrastructure with a philosophy of total employee happiness. Our case study on Cerner’s new Innovations Campus tells the story of how the company fosters healthcare innovation throughout the company. […]
Employee Engagement
Insights from IMPACT 2018: Delivering Experience
Employees use highly personalized and user-friendly technology in their daily lives. Unfortunately, the same is not always true at work. To engage a widely dispersed, often virtual workforce, HR leaders should develop technologies that offer employees a compelling and holistic experience. Delivering next-generation technologies involves thinking differently about the HR function and being willing to […]
Insights from IMPACT 2018: The Rise of the Individual in the Future of Work
Good leaders know they are in the people business. Among the many challenges facing companies both today and in the future of work is understanding that employees need a lot more than a paycheck from their jobs. As Josh Bersin, Principal and Founder, Bersin, Deloitte Consulting LLP, explained in his opening keynote speech at IMPACT […]
Insights from IMPACT 2018: Creating Meaningful Experiences for Employees
Successful companies can enhance talent by using personas to maximum advantage. When they do this, they create irresistible experiences for employees. So how can organizations create an effective business case and adopt the strategies that ultimately help their employees grow? That is the key question for organizations that want to create meaningful opportunities for their […]
Prediction 11: Talent acquisition will tap the power of internal mobility.
Last February, Gallup reported that 51 percent of U.S. employees were searching for new jobs or watching new job openings.[1] That same month, U.S. employers were trying to fill 5.7 million job openings.[2] Talk about a chocolate-and-peanut-butter moment: Companies have lots of new jobs, and lots of their employees want new jobs. It’s a tailor-made […]
Prediction 5: The integration between work and learning will need to be seamless.
In many companies, learning is starting to break down the walls of the classroom and become integrated into the work that employees do every day. In 2018, however, this integration will take a leap forward—propelled by new technology and a fresh perspective on the importance of combining work and learning.[1] Taking time out of work […]
Prediction 4: Companies will need rewards packages their employees can love.
How likely are employees to recommend your company to a friend based on its rewards package? This type of question is probably familiar to you, as it’s the basis for calculating net promoter scores (NPS), a metric widely adopted by many organizations and used to measure loyalty between a customer and a company. But the […]
Prediction 3: Treating employees like customers and empowering agile teams will become key HR strategies.
More than a clever turn of phrase, “treat your employees like you do your best customers” signals HR’s shift from managing processes to empowering employees and creating engaging environments in which they can thrive. And thanks to low unemployment rates and a strong economy, employees are now firmly in charge. Herb Kelleher, the legendary businessman […]