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Insights from leaders across human capital and healthcare.

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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. 

 

Organizational Strategy & Policy

HR operating model design, shared services and business partner roles, alongside health system strategy and M&A integration. How executives reorganized and what they centralized.

Healthcare Enterprise Governance

Healthcare Enterprise Governance

Define authority and capacity across functions
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
Enterprise Transformation in Health Systems

Enterprise Transformation in Health Systems

Operating practices that sustain results.
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...
The Wisdom Imperative: Fixing the System

The Wisdom Imperative: Fixing the System

Administrative bloat, payer fragmentation, and volume-based incentives all dissuaded patient-centric community care – and paradoxically, made moral courage a better finan...
Leading Better by Leading Less

Leading Better by Leading Less

“In healthcare, there has always been this vertical hierarchy. One of the things we’re working on is shifting that to truly horizontal hierarchy; that allows all of us to...
Rethinking Physical Therapy: Growing Brand Presence & Profits

Rethinking Physical Therapy: Growing Brand Presence & Profits

“[As providers,] we desire consistency of care and outcomes. If you’re not partnered, associated with, or closely tied to a rehabilitation or therapy group, the variabili...
Ignite! The Dangers of Disconnecting

Ignite! The Dangers of Disconnecting

This article was originally published on theFirefly Inclusion Solutions website.
Five Minutes With...Kimberly Rudowski.

Five Minutes With...Kimberly Rudowski.

Exalt Health is a rising leader in post acute rehabilitation services. Their secret to success? A proven playbook for flexible standardization, community partnership, and...
Healthcare Innovation: Structural Change and the AI Revolution

Healthcare Innovation: Structural Change and the AI Revolution

Rethinking Innovation in Healthcare
New Revenue Opportunities in 2024

New Revenue Opportunities in 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the finalized calendar year (CY) 2024 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) policy changes, and while there are numer...
Think Tank Insights: Optimizing Change Management in Healthcare

Think Tank Insights: Optimizing Change Management in Healthcare

Change had always been a constant in healthcare, but that reality was greatly exacerbated by COVID. Digital care delivery, remote admin and support teams, growing labor s...
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...
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...
Sustainable QI: The People Behind the Change

Sustainable QI: The People Behind the Change

Healthcare providers face a unique set of pressures as we charge full steam ahead into 2023. Staff shortages are at an all-time high, prompting everything from nursing sc...
The Biggest Thing To Happen in Human Capital Reporting That No One Knows About!

The Biggest Thing To Happen in Human Capital Reporting That No One Knows About!

2020 has brought with it an overwhelming number of items competing for the collective attention of HR practitioners. Amidst the swirl of commotion, a major decision impac...
Webcast: Outlook for the Healthcare Industry – Post COVID-19

Webcast: Outlook for the Healthcare Industry – Post COVID-19

Connex Partner, KPN Advisors' recent webcast includes a panel of leading healthcare advisors and restructuring professionals that focus on the current healthcare industry...