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Proving the ROI of People Investments

How the organizations are turning culture, engagement, and leadership into real business drivers.

In this conversation, leaders from Connex Partners, ADP, and Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield challenge that framing. They show how organizations can move beyond abstract “culture talk” to connect people strategy with tangible business outcomes by proving the ROI of onboarding, leadership development, engagement, and employee experience as measurable drivers of productivity, cost, and performance. 

 

Culture

Employee engagement strategy, manager effectiveness, listening programs and keeping culture intact through change. What HR leaders measure, and what they changed as a result.

Incentive Alignment for HR-Driven Culture Change

Incentive Alignment for HR-Driven Culture Change

Connect requested behaviors to evaluation and rewards
Ethical Rightsizing: Preserving Dignity and Trust in an Automated Era

Ethical Rightsizing: Preserving Dignity and Trust in an Automated Era

When organizations must reduce headcount, how they do it matters just as much as the decision itself. Four HR leaders share what it truly takes to navigate layoffs with h...
Shadow AI at Work: What HR Leaders Learned from the Roundtable

Shadow AI at Work: What HR Leaders Learned from the Roundtable

When the first speaker in a Senior HR Connex Think Tank asked half-jokingly whether using generative AI amounted to “cheating,” they hit on the confluence of anxieties th...
Ignite! The Dangers of Disconnecting

Ignite! The Dangers of Disconnecting

This article was originally published on theFirefly Inclusion Solutions website.
Five Minutes With…Stacie Baird

Five Minutes With…Stacie Baird

Briefly explore the career, leadership strategies, and life lessons of a fellow HR innovator. Nearly half of employees worry that GenAI could negatively impact the nature...
Prioritizing Inclusivity for a More Diverse, Equitable Culture

Prioritizing Inclusivity for a More Diverse, Equitable Culture

Enhancing Inclusivity Through Intersectionality
How Culture Determines Whether Performance Management Works

How Culture Determines Whether Performance Management Works

Performance management is typically defined as the process of evaluating employee activity as a function of efficiently and effectively meeting organizational needs, but ...
Inside PwC: A Tech-Enabled Talent Strategy

Inside PwC: A Tech-Enabled Talent Strategy

The immediate impact of the pandemic may be behind us, but we’re not getting the R&R we expected – instead the news is filled with talk of resignations and recessions...
DEIA the “Right” Way

DEIA the “Right” Way

Some organizations are losing steam on their DEIA initiatives, negatively impacting both business performance and the employee experience. The same can’t be said for the ...
Becoming an Employer of Choice

Becoming an Employer of Choice

A decade’s long streak of growth finally came to an end, with the annual average engagement rate dropping 2% in both 2021 and 2022 according to Gallup.
Five minutes with Rod Lacey

Five minutes with Rod Lacey

With Gartner forecasting a steady increase in turnover for the foreseeable future, we consulted Chief People Officer Rod Lacey to learn how SimPro made attrition practica...
Navigating the Evolving Talent Management Landscape

Navigating the Evolving Talent Management Landscape

As we approach the end of Q1 2024, it’s become clear that labor will continue to be a hot button issue for the foreseeable future. This puts additional pressure on HR tea...
Five Minutes With...Rachael Kelly

Five Minutes With...Rachael Kelly

Every performance management strategy hinges on having a psychologically safe environment where employer and employee alike are receptive to feedback, so how do you creat...
Using Intentionality to Transform the Management of Remote Teams

Using Intentionality to Transform the Management of Remote Teams

After Patrick Felder became Vice President of Employee Success at Salesforce in October 2020, he did not meet any of the business leaders that he works with, nor any othe...
Five Minutes With...Alice Yoo LeClair

Five Minutes With...Alice Yoo LeClair

In this article, we caught up with Alice Yoo LeClair, Divisional CHRO at Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC. From digital mentors to sapien evolution, Alice provides pl...
Leadership: It's What Happens in Vegas!

Leadership: It's What Happens in Vegas!

MGM Resorts International’s Corporate VPs of Human Resources and Talent Management share insight into the company’s evolution as a leader-led, employee centric organizati...
No One Is Just A Number

No One Is Just A Number

The idea of taking a critical lens to ranked performance management styles is nothing new. In fact, a quick Google search shows a wave of articles from 2015 discussing th...
The Perfect Storm: Fixing the Recruitment Crisis

The Perfect Storm: Fixing the Recruitment Crisis

Leading With Intentionality

Leading With Intentionality

The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insights Series, which is produced in partnership with the “Innovating Leade...
Joy at Work!

Joy at Work!

The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insights Series, which is produced in partnership with the “Innovating Leade...
To Get More Done, Work Less!

To Get More Done, Work Less!

The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insights Series, which is produced in partnership with the “Innovating Leade...
The Power of Trauma-Informed Leadership

The Power of Trauma-Informed Leadership

The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insights Series, which is produced in partnership with the “Innovating Leade...
Flexing for an Employee-Led Culture

Flexing for an Employee-Led Culture

To one degree or another, emerging from the height of the pandemic has been a test of cultural resilience and management flexibility for all businesses. Despite operation...
Bringing Your Full Self to Work

Bringing Your Full Self to Work

It’s staggering to think about just how much time an average adult devotes to work, especially in recent years. Between labor shortages, business model changes, and the e...
Insight into HR’s Chance to Redefine Work with Fara Palumbo

Insight into HR’s Chance to Redefine Work with Fara Palumbo

The country has sped right past the two-year anniversary of COVID’s initial declaration as a National Emergency: a testament to how well we’ve managed to adapt to our cir...
The Great Reengagement

The Great Reengagement

Connex Member Michelle Sanchez-Bickley sat down with Maureen Metcalf from Innovative Leadership to discuss these challenges, and in the process, shed light on a refreshin...
Building competitive advantages with Alice Yoo Le Clair

Building competitive advantages with Alice Yoo Le Clair

What responsibility, if any, do HR leaders have for community building within their organization; and if so, how has the move to remote and hybrid work complicated the pr...
6 ways to achieve total confidence in total rewards in 2022

6 ways to achieve total confidence in total rewards in 2022

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic began it was widely acknowledged that employees were looking for more than just a paycheck. Now, nearly two years after the pandemic sta...
6 key insights for improving resilience, stress reduction and mental health support for healthcare staff

6 key insights for improving resilience, stress reduction and mental health support for healthcare staff

The momentum achieved early in the pandemic by positioning care professionals as “heroes” has since worn off, leaving a trail of stress, mental and emotional strain, and ...
Building a Practical and Sustainable Performance Competency Model

Building a Practical and Sustainable Performance Competency Model

We were delighted to host a recent session on the subject of building a performance competency model. The session was led by Tony Callander, Chief Human Resources Officer...
The cost of contentment: 5 key insights on how to strike the balance in benefits management in 2022

The cost of contentment: 5 key insights on how to strike the balance in benefits management in 2022

On November 4, Connex HR members met for an insightful discussion on the topic of benefits programs and packages, and how to keep employee value propositions attractive i...
How Leadership Has The Power To Unite And Inspire

How Leadership Has The Power To Unite And Inspire

As leaders, we have the opportunity and responsibility to help our employees and organizations transcend personal differences and better align with our organization's pur...
Three Key Takeaways from Green Circle Life’s Webinar: “Promoting Emotional Wellbeing During COVID and Beyond”

Three Key Takeaways from Green Circle Life’s Webinar: “Promoting Emotional Wellbeing During COVID and Beyond”

On April 14th, Green Circle Life presented a webinar about the importance of supporting employees’ wellbeing in the workplace featuring John Daniel, speaker, author and f...
Preparing for the Known Unknown: HCM Leaders and the Return-to-Work Conundrum

Preparing for the Known Unknown: HCM Leaders and the Return-to-Work Conundrum

With the new promise of widespread vaccine rollout, HCM leadership must consider the complex implications of a return to work while continuing to optimize the work from h...
Playing to Win: Best Practices in Team Construction and Development

Playing to Win: Best Practices in Team Construction and Development

Introduction Team development has long represented an outsize challenge for leadership due to a range of factors, beginning with the fact that it is fundamentally difficu...

Connex Member Michelle Sanchez-Bickley sat down with Maureen Metcalf from Innovative Leadership to d...