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Team 23

“We Is Better Than Me”

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Agenda

  • Team Introductions

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  • Methodology

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  • Recommendations

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  • Key Findings

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Consulting Team

Kara Hawkins

Nick McCormick

Jackie Markisz

Nathan Zinn

Shanthi Pandiri

Consulting Team

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  • What can we do through employee engagement to accelerate Healthfirst progress towards their DEI goals?

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  • How to link the progress in DEI goals to the bottom line?

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DEI Mission & Vision

Healthfirst commits to building, developing, and engaging a diverse and inclusive leadership team and workforce to further the organization's commitment to high quality and compliant business outcomes.

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Healthfirst leaders and all employees embody the principles of DEI and these principles are embedded into Healthfirst’s culture creating a strong, engaged, empowered, and diverse workforce.

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Healthfirst Culture Drivers

Think Critically,

Speak Up,

Deliver with Pride

Break Down the Walls

Inspire Though Trust,

Lead by Example

Be Unstoppable

Dream Big,

Plan Wisely

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Employee

Engagement

Employee Resource Groups

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Employee Mentoring

Upward Feedback

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Employee Resource Group

    • Gain Support
    • Set Mission and Goals
    • Get Employees Involved
    • Develop a Budget

Establishment

Measure

Success

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    • Recommend and Collaborate to Deliver ERG Best and Next Practices
    • Create Success Criteria
    • Membership and Even Numbers
    • Improved Sense of Community
    • Network and Relationship Development

Together We Are At Our Best!

    • Internal and External Relationship
    • Develop Partnerships
    • Share Resources
    • Maintain Open Communication

Healthfirst Veteran Engagement Team (HVET)

Healthfirst PRIDE Network

Addresses Challenges

Maintain

Momentum

Break Down the Walls

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Inspire Though Trust,

Lead by Example

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Formal Feedback Program

    • Makes employee voices heard
    • Leverage diversity
    • Provides valuable insight
    • Virtual "suggestions box"
    • Annual employee survey, quarterly pulse survey
    • Formalize office hours with executives
    • Demonstrate buy in
    • Be transparent
    • Brief results
    • Show when ideas are implemented

Think Critically,

Speak Up,

Deliver with Pride

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Bottom Line

Changes in leadership can lead to percentage gain in innovation revenue

(Lorenzo, Voigt, Tsusaka, Krentz, & Abouzahr, 2021)

Be Unstoppable

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Linking DEI Progress to Bottom Line

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Market Share

Image and Reputation

Customer Satisfaction

Department Wise Breakdown

Innovation Revenues

Employee Satisfaction

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Employee Resource Groups

Mentorship Program

Formal Feedback Program

Bottom Line

  • Healthfirst Veteran Engagement Team (HVET)
  • Healthfirst PRIDE Network
  • Two-way learning opportunity for senior employees and future leaders

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  • DEI positively impacts the economy, not just towards a HR goal
  • Codify a tailored system to enable employee feedback

Key Findings

Dream Big,

Plan Wisely

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