The New Voice of Our Employees: What You Need to Know from Employees Around the World

2021 Annual Conference & Expo
Attendees will be exposed to employee survey feedback collected from over 15 million employees in over 200 countries working in every major industry around the world. Data encompasses feedback from the racial injustice movement to workplace safety during a pandemic. and distinguishes between topics that are truly important from those that are merely interesting. This session is the story behind the numbers.

Your presenters will discuss the global consolidated survey results, pointing out important subgroup differences, trends, and benchmarks. They will share the global drivers of employee engagement and provide insight into diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace. Based on learnings from over 40 years of employee research that spans the past to the present they will delineate between foundational psychological drivers of employee engagement and the new emerging factors that are growing increasingly critical to workforce performance. Attendees will learn what matters most to employees and how those drivers parallel to prove strategies that move the needle on employee performance. 

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the foundational drivers of employee engagement and how to move the needle to drive business outcomes.
  • Learn how to effectively collect, analyze, and act on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within your organization.
  • Determine how to distinguish important data from interesting data to prioritize action planning on what matters most to your employees and your workforce.
  • Participate in an In-depth analysis of data using a range of statistical techniques.
Date(s) & Time(s): 
Friday, September 10, 2021 - 11:00am to 11:20am
Presenter: 

Kris Erickson

Kris
Erickson

Kris Erickson currently serves as co-founder and executive consultant for Workforce Science Associates. In this role, she empowers organizations to discover the unique drivers and motivational aspects that drive performance in their workforce and use these to accelerate a high-performance culture.

Kris has over 25 years of consulting experience with Fortune 500 companies. In this capacity, Erickson worked at both the strategic and tactical levels to develop and deploy comprehensive workforce solutions.

 

 

Bill Erickson

Bill
Erickson

Bill has played a key role in building and studying great companies for over 40 years. His early background in psychology and education prepared him for his introduction to the corporate world. After fifteen years as Executive Vice President of the Gallup Organization, he was a founder of Human Resource Innovations later to become Kenexa. Before Kenexa was acquired by IBM in 2012 it had quickly become, by far, the largest provider of employee research.

While serving as Vice Chairman of Kenexa, among his many executive responsibilities was his consistent leadership in directing executive-level consulting and thought leadership. Bill is uniquely qualified as an HR thought leader having played critical roles in building and transforming great organizations while directing a massive body of innovative research on workforce performance. He is a highly rated speaker/presenter whose audiences also benefit from his many insights learned from studying elite talent ranging from superstars in the NBA, NHL, and NFL as well as some of the very best managers and leaders at every level from the front line to the C Suite. Bill is currently a founding member of Workforce Science Associates (WSA).

Location: 
Smart Stage
Session Type: 
Smart Stage
Competency: 
Business (Behavioral)
Interpersonal (Behavioral)
Leadership (Behavioral)
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