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Access exclusive insights, expert perspectives, and valuable resources created specifically for Connex Partners members. Explore ideas, strategies, and real-world perspectives designed to help you stay ahead in human capital and healthcare.

 

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. 

 

Leadership, Coaching & Succession

Succession planning, leadership development and executive coaching. How CHROs and talent leaders identify successors and which development programs paid off.

Incentive Alignment for HR-Driven Culture Change

Incentive Alignment for HR-Driven Culture Change

Connect requested behaviors to evaluation and rewards
Manager Capacity and Adoption in HR Rollouts

Manager Capacity and Adoption in HR Rollouts

Test capacity and routines, then measure the decisions
Middle Manager Resistance to HR Transformation

Middle Manager Resistance to HR Transformation

Understanding capacity, incentives, and decision rights
Support Caregivers, Support the Business

Support Caregivers, Support the Business

In August 2024, the Surgeon General issued a warning around the state of working parents in the US,” explained Sarah Olin. “Their research found that 41% of parents and c...
HR Leadership: From Selfless to Self-Care

HR Leadership: From Selfless to Self-Care

Countless stories shared at Connex industry events demonstrate just how compassionate HR leaders can be, their deep empathy pushing them to go above and beyond in the ser...
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...
Succession and the Talent Bench

Succession and the Talent Bench

Is Your Talent Pipeline Prepared?
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 ...
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.
Inside Connexion 2023

Inside Connexion 2023

Expressed early in the first panel discussion, that statement helped kick off Connexion 2023 and fittingly set the tone for the sessions to come. These in-person discussi...
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...
Ken Blanchard on 40 Years of HR

Ken Blanchard on 40 Years of HR

Ken Blanchard was born in New Jersey and raised in New York. In 1982 he and his coauthor, Spencer Johnson, published the seminal management text The One Minute Manager, r...
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...
ICYMI: Connexion 2022

ICYMI: Connexion 2022

In case you missed it, we were excited and honored to put on our first in-person event since the initial lockdowns at Connexion 2022 down in sunny San Diego, CA. Running ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

The idea of taking a critical lens to ranked performance management styles is nothing new. In fact, ...

The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insigh...

In case you missed it, we were excited and honored to put on our first in-person event since the ini...

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