Personal safety fears: the missing link in your wellbeing strategy?

Is your pipeline solid? Don’t be so sure of the answer, not with one of your biggest sources of rising leaders working parents rethinking jobs. Women in particular are at risk, with 40 percent ready to leave because of burnout, and more than half planning an exit within two years.1 For employers, it’s a potentially cataclysmic development, informed by two years of colliding work and personal lives that’s driving people to fundamentally change their relationship with work and leave for jobs that offer the support they need. For top employers like Bloomberg and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, it’s a moment of action. What are they doing? In this program, you will hear from both about the challenges they’re facing, solutions they’re putting into action, and how they’re effectively rewriting talent strategy to attract and retain working parents.

Candidates are looking for more transparency, meaningful experiences, greater communication, deeper company education, and a more substantial sense of belonging in their workplace. Recruiting teams need to show – not tell – candidates about their employment experience through hiring that is informative, fair, and effective in identifying fit for everyone involved. TA teams need the tools and insights to keep up. To survive the “new normal,” organizations must engage best-fit candidates and hire the right people, faster and with greater accuracy than ever before.

Engagement is more than simply how satisfied or happy someone is with their work, it’s about a personal, emotional and mental investment with the work and the company. In a time where the employee experience is more important than ever, it’s critical to ask the fundamental questions about what employee experience is and why it matters. Learn why engagement is more than just satisfaction in a company and how to measure it and the fundamental key to employee success.

The employment relationship is a symbiotic relationship between company and employee with each side needing something from the other beyond financial benefit. Employees and companies expect mutual honesty, candor, respect and caring in the employment relationship. The failure to promote such ethical principals in the workplace can lead to disengagement, poor productivity, distrust of management, poor retention of good employees, and ultimately hinder the financial performance of the company or subject the company to increased reputational risk. This topic helps management understand, prepare for, and avoid the potential ethical pitfalls that arise in the employment relationship. The material also explains pitfalls related to legal representation in employment matters, whether from an in-house or outside counsel perspective. The discussion will focus on identifying situations where ethical concerns typically arise and how to manage those situations.