New Employee Retention Tool introduced to Community Health Centers

Employees Know ^© is a process for improving wellbeing in the workplace that is managed by the employees of a company with little or no influence from external consultants. It is an inside-out approach that starts with the company’s greatest resource – its current employees and provides them with the structure to design and vet ideas for improving employee wellbeing that work within the culture and uniqueness of each organization.

The Employees Know Process, based on the most current theories of Wellbeing, positive psychology and group decision-making, allows employees to participate from anywhere using electronic brainstorming software via the Internet. It is both easy to use and effective regardless of the current level of wellbeing within the company.

The process revolves around employees answering one question, “What ideas do you have to improve your wellbeing in your workplace?” Employees then work to select and prioritize the best of these to management for their consideration. Management is able to move forward on ideas that already have the support of employees, many of which involve a minimum of financial investment.

“Encouraging employee wellbeing and engagement is perhaps the most critical innovation we can embrace at the time,” EKP Founder Dr. Gerald Wagner said. Gallup research shows that nearly two thirds of American workers are “not engaged or actively disengaged,” in their work.

Those are scary numbers, especially critical in the health care industry where employees have a huge impact on patient wellbeing and thereby community wellbeing every day. That’s why Wagner, who is also the founder of the Employee Wellbeing Institute at Bellevue University and an award-winning innovator, is focused on implementing the program in 500 community health care centers across the country in just five years at little or no cost to the centers.

For more information see www.employeesknow.org.  To move forward with EKP, contact Dr. Gerald Wagner at wagnergeraldr@gmail.com .