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Wondering how to survey your employees in 2021?

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Come hear what leading practitioners are doing at our upcoming virtual conference:

Moving Forward: Understanding the Employee Experience

September 10th and 11th, 2020

Speakers from GSK, Medtronic, MassMutual, and PepsiCo, alongside the OrgVitality consultants, will shed light
on current trends, best practices, and how to drive meaningful change.

Click here to visit the conference website, get information on specific sessions, and register for individual sessions. Or, contact us if you’d like us to register you for the whole conference.

Here are just some of the many sessions we will be offering:

Managing People in 2021 and Beyond

The world looks very different than it did a year ago, and will likely look even more different a year from now. Organizations that want to thrive need to adapt. In this half-hour conference welcome, OrgVitality CEO Jeffrey Saltzman will discuss the current climate and provide leadership with specific tips for the upcoming year. Register here

Leveraging Employee Confidence During Economic Downturns

At the start of the pandemic, OrgVitality offered a free Employee Well-Being and Business Resilience survey to any organization who wanted to make sure employees had what they needed, better understand their specific challenges, and ensure that critical messages from leadership were getting through. In this half-hour presentation, OrgVitality Executive Consultant Jerry Seibert will present the key findings from this initiative and explore what leadership should do with this data. Register here

What the Heck are Your Employees Thinking These Days – and Why You Need to Care Research shows a clear pattern: In times of crisis, employees are willing to give leaders the benefit of the doubt and some leeway when it comes to decision making. They tend to be surprisingly optimistic and grant the leadership more credibility than we might expect. However, it’s critical that organizations not squander this good will. In this session. OrgVitality Partner and Vice President Dr. Scott Brooks will discuss our research, explain how leadership credibility and employee confidence are tied to organizational success, and discuss ways that companies can boost or maintain effectiveness. Register here

Listening During Times of Crisis

When it became clear that beating COVID-19 would require shuttering businesses and issuing stay-at-home orders across the globe, Medtronic was in the middle of administering its annual employee survey. Rather than stop the survey, leaders expanded their employee listening efforts, providing valuable data. In this presentation, Director of Human Capital Insights Chris Lovato and Senior Survey Program Manager Nicole Herk will jointly present on the importance of employee listening during and after the pandemic crisis, and how Medtronic maintained a focus and commitment to learn from their employees through the use of data analytics. Register here

Crafting the Executive Message in Today’s Survey Results

Learn from survey experts in this dynamic panel discussion that will include how to leverage survey results to focus executives on current challenges, how to interpret findings in light of 2020 chaos, and how to push forward the changes that will make organizations more effective. Join Dr. Scott Brooks as he chats with experts from GSK, MassMutual, and others to see how they have adapted their survey programs and executive messaging for our current environment. Register here

Click here to visit the full conference line-up.

OrgVitality is pleased to offer a free suite  of pulse surveys for many of your survey needs.

Written by Jeffrey M. Saltzman

July 28, 2020 at 1:47 pm

Announcing free K-12 Return to School Surveys

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Schools everywhere are grappling with decisions about how to re-open safely, or whether to stay remote. We want to help.

Decision-making based on data helps organizations make better decisions. That’s why we’ve added yet more surveys to our free suite; while most are geared towards organizations and employees, we wanted to do something to help schools as well. We’ve created two new free surveys – one for parents or guardians, and another for teachers, administrators, and staff.

We need your help. While we do much work in the non-profit sector, we don’t have many contacts among school administrations. Please forward this email to any school district that might benefit from a completely free survey.

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Written by Jeffrey M. Saltzman

July 17, 2020 at 9:39 am

Announcing Our Completely Free Survey Suite to Help Organizations and Employees Right Now

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When the pandemic first caused a global shut-down, organizations and employees all moved quickly, many shifting to remote working.

Now, people are all doing different things – some are staying home, some have returned to the office, and others never left.

Our full suite of free pulse surveys lets you survey your workforce – no matter your circumstances – so that you can continue to measure your employees’ needs. Topics include workplace safety, return-to-work, virtual team assessments, and more. At a time when many are struggling, we are in a position to help, and see this effort as our contribution to helping the world recover.

 

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We are also pleased to share the results of the Employee Well-Being and Business Resilience surveys that we launched in the weeks after the full-force of the pandemic made its impact across the globe. Our report is based on an analysis of almost 60,000 employees, spanning multiple industries.

 

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Are you listening to your employees right now? Don’t miss the latest People@Work Podcast, featuring OrgVitality Partner and Vice President Dr. Victoria Hendrickson, as she goes in-depth on everything organizations need to know about surveying employees through these times. Listen now.

Written by Jeffrey M. Saltzman

July 14, 2020 at 12:26 pm