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- STAFF COMPETENCY TOOLKIT
- Older Americans More Likely to Cite Workplace Discrimination
- Find & Post Jobs in LeadingAge Colorado's Career Center
- New Bills Introduced on Home Health, Workforce, Medical Expense Deduction
- LeadingAge Expands Outreach to Students and Universities
- Recognize an Outstanding Nurse at Your Community
- Promising Practice: Emerging Leaders Program
- Immigrants Play Crucial Role in Caring for Seniors
- Why Have Teens Stopped Getting Summer Jobs?
LeadingAge Colorado Workforce Summit
July 31 • Covenant Village of Colorado • Westminster
Now is the time to make employee retention a priority and get all your leaders on the same page! Join us July 31st for another powerful program with our workforce retention partners from Crescendo Strategies with a combination workshop of big-picture thinking about today's employment landscape along with immediately actionable strategies for reducing employee turnover across your organization. We'll dive deeper into why staff REALLY leave (beyond pay and schedules), learn ways to communicate with team members more effectively, and discuss how to maximize the time we have with each and every new hire to improve retention and reduce issues of continuity of care from so much staffing churn! This program will cover brand new retention strategies such as how to:
- Improve the New-Hire Experience with Better Onboarding & Training
- Identify the Communication Styles of Yourself and Others to Work Better Together
- Deal with Entitled Staff Who Want Promotions Faster Than They Deserve
- Utilize New Tools & Software to Improve Staff Engagement
Register today!
STAFF COMPETENCY TOOLKIT
LeadingAge and LeadingAge Colorado are excited to announce that the Staff Competency Toolkit© is now available to members! This toolkit contains 25 Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA) areas to be used with staff across disciplines, from front-line staff to management, from nursing to social services, activities, food and nutrition services and beyond.
Section 1 of the toolkit provides insight into the staff competency requirements for nursing homes, leadership implementation strategies, tools, and resources. Section 2 includes the 25 targeted KSA areas and each KSA area contains general information on the KSA competency, a leadership overview and guide, a facility implementation guide and checklist, competency tools based on the specific KSA requirement, a training plan, a competency test and answer key, an educational power point that includes trainer’s notes, and references and resources.
A video introduction is also provided to help you make the most of this resource. Please note you will need your member login to access this material. More
Older Americans More Likely to Cite Workplace Discrimination
A survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found 60 percent of adults 60 and over say older U.S. workers are "always" or "often" discriminated against, as do 43 percent of adults younger than 45, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Federal law prohibits age discrimination in employment, but 66 percent of adults 60 and older -- and 65 percent of those between 45 and 59 -- think age is against them when seeking work. Ten percent of those 60...
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Find & Post Jobs in LeadingAge Colorado's Career Center
Explore new opportunities at the LeadingAge Colorado Career Center.
Interested in posting a job? Visit the LeadingAge Colorado Career Center.
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New Bills Introduced on Home Health, Workforce, Medical Expense Deduction
The Educating Medical Professionals and Optimizing Workforce Efficiency and Readiness (EMPOWER) for Health Act, H.R. 2781, would reauthorize federal health care workforce programs under Title VII of the Public Health Service Act. Read more.
LeadingAge Expands Outreach to Students and Universities
Christy Kramer, Director of LeadingAge DC, is expanding her work at LeadingAge national to focus on Student Initiatives and Programs. Read more.
Recognize an Outstanding Nurse at Your Community
Looking for a way to acknowledge an outstanding Director of Nursing (DON) or Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) in your organization? Nominate him or her for the Joan Anne McHugh Award for Leadership in Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Nursing. Read more.
Promising Practice: Emerging Leaders Program
In 2013, Goodwin House (GHI) in Northern Virginia developing created an “Emerging Leaders Program” to help existing employees move up the career ladder -- and to make sure that the organization would have the talent it needed to innovate and expand. Read more.
Immigrants Play Crucial Role in Caring for Seniors
Senior care in the United States would not be as effective as it is without immigrant caregivers, reports WRAL-TV. "When people think of immigrant caregivers obviously they think, with all of the news media, people coming from Mexico and places like that," notes Right At Home CEO Tom Arnold. "But the immigrants in the United States that are caregivers come from 124 different countries and speak 157 languages." The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates that roughly 8 million new...
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Why Have Teens Stopped Getting Summer Jobs?
Trends point to a decline in U.S. teenagers getting summer employment over the years, with 60 percent of teens working in 1978 versus 35 percent in the summer of 2018, according to Delaware 105.9 FM. One factor is the emergence of older Americans and new immigrants vying for work that teens would usually take during the summer months. Another factor is teens' increasing immersion in summer sports, classes, and camos. Also having a...
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