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...
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...
Jerry Maguire and the Aging Services Workforce
By Dr. Robyn Stone with LeadingAge National’s LTSS Center
A recent invitation to explore new team-based service-delivery models "had me at 'hello,'" writes Robyn Stone. Here's why.
You had me at “hello."
That famous line from the 1996 film Jerry Maguire came...
Gig Economy Reveals Important Information About the Workforce
Millions of Americans are embracing work in the gig economy often doing casual work but are not counted as employed for the purposes of the government's official statistics. New research sheds light on the...
Free Website to Post Job Openings Through KANSASWORKS
The Kansas Department of Commerce is seeing Kansas relocation and employment interest from many sectors, both from within the state and outside of Kansas. In order to assist in the important connections between Kansas...
Behavior-Based Interviewing
Behavior-based interviewing is a technique used in which the job candidate has the opportunity to demonstrate their potential for succeeding in the new job by providing specific examples of how they handled similar situations...
PHI Focuses on ‘New Populations’ in Direct Care
New research examines three groups that could help address the home care shortage: younger workers, older workers, and men.
BY ROBERT ESPINOZA | APRIL 2, 2018
Today, PHI released the first fact sheet in a three-part series focused on recruiting...
Nursing Home Salary & Benefits Report
The 2022-2023 Nursing Home Salary & Benefits Report, published by HCS in cooperation with LeadingAge, is now available! LeadingAge members save $75 off the purchase price. HERE is a press release highlighting the jump in hourly rates...
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...
New Workforce Snap Poll
To better understand the workforce challenges in provider member organizations across the continuum, LeadingAge has released a new quarterly Workforce Snap Poll. The survey will be useful in our advocacy with members of Congress...
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...
ATTN KC Members: Do You Have Bilinguals on Staff?
Employing individuals who are bilingual is essential in today’s workforce. In last week’s Aging Update, we reminded you of the new Limited English Proficiency Regulations that went into effect last month. To that end,...