Excerpt from the Talent Management and HR Blog

Research consistently shows that employees are the happiest and most likely to stay at companies that are innovative, align with personal values, offer opportunities for growth and development, cultivate and encourage collaboration and teamwork, and foster an environment where employees feel inspired and play an integral role in making a positive impact in the world.

In other words, inspired and engaged employees equal happy employees. The idea of developing a strong company culture and increasing employee engagement efforts to attract and retain top talent is nothing new to HR professionals. Be it flexible work schedules and environments, unlimited paid time off, education subsidies, mechanisms to spotlight great work and provide praise and everything in between, organizations are focusing their efforts on the overall wellbeing and engagement of their employees. That said, according to Gallup’s U.S. employee engagement numbers for June 2016, only a third of workers are engaged with their job.

Read the full article on the tlnt.com

Director, Product Management – Corporate Giving and Engagement Strategy, YourCause from Blackbaud 

Andrew helps corporations strategically plan how they can leverage technology to optimize the management and impact of their philanthropic and employee giving programs, as well as inspire their employees through transformative engagement programs. He has a demonstrated history of working in the philanthropy industry and has a special interest in mapping employee engagement efforts to measurable outcomes.

Skills-based volunteerism (SBV) – including pro bono, board service, and international corporate volunteerism – can generate outsized social impact through high-value service provision and capacity development. But how to measure the results? In this webinar event with True Impact and YourCause, you will learn how to practically quantify the effects to prove, and continuously improve, the value of your SBV programming.