UPMC administers surveys to all 80,000 employees across 20 different hospital systems, doctors’ offices, clinics, and long-term care facilities to understand the employee voice.
We have reached the age of the employee, and the majority of organizations are not meeting their employee’s expectations. Learn how to change that.
The authors of The Employee Experience will share best practices for improving the employee experience and creating engaged employees in your organization.
What you can expect to learn:
What are the different contracts we make with our employees can lead to expectation misalignment
The difference between the Employee Experience and Employee Engagement
Company maturity impacts your employee experience strategy
All attendees will receive a free book signed by the authors.
Dr. Tracy Maylett: Tracy’s business, coaching, and consulting background extends over a period of two decades and across five continents. Tracy is the Chief Executive Officer of DecisionWise, and is responsible for guiding the overall strategy of DecisionWise, as well as leading large-scale change efforts for clients throughout the globe.
DecisionWise will help you understand how to create an engaged workforce. This is the age of the employee, and the majority of organizations are failing to meet their employee’s expectations, why?
The authors of the best selling book The Employee Experience will share best practices for improving the employee experience and creating engaged employees in your organization.
What you can expect to learn:
What are the different contracts we make with our employees can lead to expectation misalignment
The difference between the Employee Experience and Employee Engagement
Company maturity impacts your employee experience strategy
Market trends that may impact the employee experience
All attendees will receive a free book signed by the authors.
Dr. Tracy Maylett: Tracy’s business, coaching, and consulting background extends over a period of two decades and across five continents. Tracy is the Chief Executive Officer of DecisionWise, and is responsible for guiding the overall strategy of DecisionWise, as well as leading large-scale change efforts for clients throughout the globe.
Matt Wride, JD: As DecisionWise’s Chief Operating Officer and executive consultant, Matt oversees the company’s operations, as well as its finance, legal, and administrative functions. He consults with executives around the globe on creating employee engagement at the organizational, team, and individual levels.
The rise of the employee experience is the next topic human resources professionals should pay attention to and here’s why. Try this experiment. Go to LinkedIn and type in “Employee Experience” with the quotes in the search bar. As of November 29, 2016, I found:
1,911 people with “Employee Experience” in their profile
1,850 people with “Employee Experience” in their title
2,222 jobs are available with the term “Employee Experience” in the title
3,890 results appear for LinkedIn posts with the term “Employee Experience”
6 groups with “Employee Experience” in the name- the most popular one has 879 members
When I did this same search about a month before, I found less than 1,700 people with “Employee Experience” in their title. More and more HR professionals are changing their titles to include this new term, and it seems to be senior HR leaders in reputable companies who are leading the way. Here are several examples:
Donna Morris, EVP Customer and Employee Experience at Adobe
Malcolm Berkley, Vice President, Global Employee Experience at UPS
Angela Heyroth, Managing Director, Employee Experience at Charles Schwab
Paul Davies, Employee Experience Leader at GE
Ryan Miller, Senior Manager, HR Knowledge Management and Employee Experience at The Walt Disney Company
Monika Fahlbusch, Chief Employee Experience Officer at BMC Software
Shauna Cort, Employee Experience Program Manager at Tesla
When you think about it, “human resources” does sound like an antiquated and non-politically-correct term. Are employees really the company’s resources? “Human resources” is a corporate term to specify the different inputs needed for a company to produce a product or service. When viewed as a cog in the machine of corporate gains, “human resources” really doesn’t do an adequate job of describing employees. After all, companies are really made up of a group of people that produce value for customers. It’s your people that ultimately drive the company’s success.
“Employee Experience” Shows a 140% Increase in Popularity
Google has a nifty tool to show how popular a term is on the search engine. Google Trends allows you to see the relative interest in a term over the past five years. If you do a search on Google Trends for the term “Employee Experience,” you will see a 140 percent increase in interest by comparing the average popularity value of 35 in 2011 to 85 towards the end of 2016.
Google’s description of “interest over time” is a little tricky. Google explains: “Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. Likewise, a score of 0 means the term was less than 1% as popular as the peak.”
If you compare interest in “Employee Engagement” you will see that “Employee Experience” has a ways to go to catch up. Nevertheless, the trend in interest for “Employee Experience” is still climbing.
What is the Employee Experience?
Simply put, the employee experience is the sum of the various perceptions employees have about their interactions with the organization in which they work. These perceptions drive how employees feel about their work and how much effort they put into their job. The employee experience determines how effective your company is at attracting, retaining, and engaging your workforce.
The Employee Experience Revolution
Are we in the middle of a major shift in mindset when it comes to employees? I hope so. As the global economy grows and competition becomes more intense, the war for talent will only become harder. Attracting, retaining, and engaging top talent will be the key advantage successful companies use to win in this era, and it all starts with creating an amazing employee experience.
P.S. While posting this article, I did another search on LinkedIn and found 5,303 people with “Employee Experience” in their title.
Question: If you are in HR, will you be replacing “human resources” with “employee experience” in your title? Did you do so already? Why?
