Why Money Won’t Motivate Your Nurses It’s another one of those days. Kathy has more patients than she knows what to do with, and each one is demanding in a way that is especially tiring. Suddenly, her manager stops her in the hallway with a smile and says, “Hey, I know this is a tough […]
Month: May 2022
Improve Employee Satisfaction with Effective Leadership Communication
Taking action to improve your organization can often require a significant investment of time and money. However, there are some opportunities that are relatively inexpensive to improve that will greatly benefit your organization. One such opportunity is leadership communication. Taking time to ensure leadership has an open line of communication with your employees can improve […]
Why Employee Engagement Increased in 2020
For many businesses, the biggest win in 2020 was simply staying in business. Not everyone got to celebrate this, and those who did should consider themselves fortunate. An interesting thing happened while we were all focused on COVID-19’s impact; employee engagement went up, and not by an insignificant amount. According to People Element’s recent Engagement […]
The Evolution of Employee Engagement
Now that we have entered a new year, it’s often customary to reflect upon the year being left behind. Many things can be said about 2020, but when it comes to employee engagement, a few key points stand out. Health & Wellbeing The unknown nature of COVID-19, combined with the need for widespread precautionary measures, […]
Out of sight shouldn’t mean out of mind: Keeping remote workers engaged
The workplace has changed a lot in the last five months. And while some companies are now having employees return to the office again, there will continue to be more employees working remotely in both the short-term and into the foreseeable future. Keeping a focus on the best ways to manage and engage your remote […]
Communication Tips for Managers
As a manager, there are many items on your checklist. From scheduling, staffing, and check-ins it can be hard to focus on the broader items that are part of your role. Of those broader items, most important are the individual department goals that relate directly to the success of the overall hospital goals. Often there […]
Third Party Exit Interviews: Benefits for Employee Turnover
So many of our employees are leaving and we need to find out why. How can we find out? Should we just ask them ourselves? When it comes to conducting exit interviews, take into consideration that the best approach to finding out what’s really causing turnover is likely not to be directly asked by you. […]
Six Steps to Meaningful Change
Data is pretty easy to come by these days. When it comes to employee feedback, it seems like the challenge has shifted from “How do I collect employee perception data?” to “What am I supposed to do with all this DATA?!” People Element can help with our simplified process for achieving meaningful change. Whether your […]
Managing a Hybrid Workforce
With the nationwide vaccination rate of adults now above 50%, more of the workforce is making the transition back into the office of their workplace, yet many others will continue to remain working remote, and the proportion of people working permanently remote is expected to double. Managing a remote workforce is nothing new, however, managing […]
The Power of Listening
What if you could read people’s minds? Imagine the power you would have with that information. Better yet, what if you could easily access all that information in one place whenever you needed it? Imagine knowing what people think and feel about their work and being able to apply that knowledge to make a real […]