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Q. Why is the onboarding experience crucial to long-term employee and company success?  A. According to a CareerBuilder and SilkRoad Technology survey, 9% of employees have bid farewell to a company due to poor onboarding. Even more concerning is that 37% of employees said their managers failed to play a critical role in supporting their onboarding process. However, when a company implements stellar onboarding procedures, 69% of employees will likely stay with the company for at least three...

WATERLOO, Iowa – VGM Education will host a virtual women’s breakfast, “Preserving our Teams,” Sept. 14, featuring Amanda Schara, director of Outpatient Behavioral Health at UnityPoint-Allen Hospital in Waterloo and Kendra Richman, senior consultant in talent management and organizational development at UnityPoint. The two-hour session will provide leaders with guidance in navigating an ever-changing environment, says Cindy Diehl Yang, vice president of VGM Education. “As...

WATERLOO, Iowa – VGM Education is hosting a Women in Health Care Leadership Breakfast series, a quarterly virtual webinar to empower women, create meaningful connections and build community. “The idea behind the webinar series is to build a virtual community that focuses on the specific needs of women both in the workplace and at home,” said Cindy Diehl Yang, vice president of VGM Education. The next virtual Women in Health Care Leadership Breakfast takes place June 29 at 9:30 a.m....

WATERLOO, Iowa – Nine state and regional associations have leveraged VGM Education’s virtual conference platform called SABA to host events during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to support from a number of VGM divisions, plus vendor partners like GCE, Medline, SoClean, Brightree, Philips Respironics and NCART, the events were held with little cost to the state associations. “The only cost that the associations had to absorb was the cost of the CEUs, which was $10 per person,”...