Wage and Salary Report Now Available
LeadingAge Kansas and KHCA recently teamed up with National Research Corporation to prepare the 2016 Wage and Salary Report for Kansas. Two reports were published, one was for Nursing Homes and the other for...
Project ECHO: A Proven Approach
The Project ECHO approach to leveraging the primary care workforce in rural and other medically underserved areas was developed in 2003 by Sanjeev Arora, M.D., a University of New Mexico gastroenterologist who wanted to find a...
LeadingAge Kansas Workforce Commission Focuses on Strategy
The LeadingAge Kansas Workforce Commission met last week and conducted a strategic planning session to help guide the work of the association in this area. The group spent the day talking about how we affect...
Recognizing Employees Is the Simplest Way to Improve Morale
In a recent Harvard Business Review Article, David Novack talks about how a health system recognized his Oncologist for her 40+ years of saving lives. They sent her a plastic keychain which was clearly...
UST Survey of Nonprofits on Unemployment & Employee Benefits
Survey Objective: To help identify current trends surrounding unemployment and employee benefit practices within the nonprofit community. The survey closes at COB on September 13th. START NOW. Participants will be entered to win a...
Are Your Best Managers Preventing Progress?
Gaurav Gupta, principle of Kotter International recently wrote an article about how to support managers to lead progress instead of protect the status quo. Here is an excerpt from that article.
The best managers are...
Cooperatives: A Form that Can Help Solve Workforce Issues
The past week or so has seen a number of articles acknowledge the ever-more-looming workforce issues of home health aides. This attention comes from a new report published by PHI, a nonprofit research group...
Tackling The Revolving Door: A 3-minute Employee Retention Survey
High staff turnover and retention rates in aging services continue to challenge providers. Recruiting and training costs take their financial toll, and persistent staff changes affect resident satisfaction.
LeadingAge National is conducting a very short,...
KHPOP May Be an Opportunity For Members to Find Employees
The Kansas Health Profession Opportunity Project (KHPOP) is intended to provide healthcare education, training and employment to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients and other low-income individuals....
Work Opportunity Tax Credit
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a Federal tax credit available to employers who hire and retain veterans and individuals from other target groups with significant barriers to employment. Employers claim about $1...
Targeting Millennials: Creating A Millennial-Friendly Workplace (Part 1)
Millennials, defined by most researchers as anyone born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s, are the fastest growing segment of today’s job market. In fact, by the year 2020, it has been...
Employee Engagement is a Top Indicator of a Successful Organization – Are Your Employees...
Google employee engagement and you will find hundreds of articles (and infographics) on the topic. The top business and HR minds in the country know that employee engagement in the workplace is directly tied...