The following articles are from the ALFA Update, case studies from Senior Living Executive, and audio files from ALFA's conference sessions. Organizational Development articles focus on ideas, best practices and solutions to problems related to executive team development, organizational culture, staffing and performance, staff retention and labor relations. CEO, Human Resources
A new guidance issued by the U.S. Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will require employers to revisit their employment practices and ...
ALFA Conference & Expo, cheatsheet, Employee Compensation, Staffing & Performance
Learn more about how to participate and enjoy the benefits of participation. Also, attend a session at COMMUNITY 2012 about the state of the senior l...
Organization Development, Organizational Culture, Organizational Structure, Senior Living Executive Articles, Topical
Everybody talks about the importance of corporate culture, but how do you really get senior living staff to live it every day?
cheatsheet, Employee Compensation
Company decision makers are invited to participate in the ALFA compensation market survey, conducted on behalf of ALFA by Western Management Group. Th...
cheatsheet, Employee Compensation, Reports
A new report based on 2011 data takes an in-depth look at salaries and benefits for a variety of positions in assisted living communities across the c...
From the Ground Up, Growth Strategies, Staffing, Strategy
Carlton Senior Living carefully selects leaders for its Elk Grove community as part of the Smart Growth series in the Senior Living Executive magazine...
Staffing
A new study indicates a sharp rise in the number of young nurses entering the profession. Although the results are promising, researchers fear that th...
Best of the Best Awards, Executive Team Development
MBK Senior Living’s Best of the Best Program to Spotlight, the MBK Sales Excellence Leadership System, uses a four phase approach to tra...
Award Programs, Best of the Best Awards, Executive Team Development, Professional Development
Carlton Senior Living earned recognition as a Best of the Best Program to Spotlight for its SET/Senior Executive in Training program. The award winnin...
Award Programs, Best of the Best Awards, Investment To Grow, Professional Development
Growing Together, a Best of the Best Program to Spotlight created by Brookdale Senior Living, provides interactive language classes to employees, who ...
Employee Compensation, Facts and Figures, Financing Senior Living – Consumer Education, Research
Although a majority of nurses predict their job and financial future are secure, most do not feel like they are saving enough money for retirement. Ac...
Best of the Best Awards, Managed Risk, Organizational Culture, Professional Development, Staff Performance
Earning itself a Best of the Best Program to Watch recognition, McKnight Place Assisted Living’s Comprehensive Approach to a Safety Culture has create...
Organization Development, Organizational Culture
We asked, and you answered. You shared the business issues that trouble you as a senior living professional and what motivates you to commit yourself ...
Organizational Culture, Professional Development
Chelsea Senior Living earned recognition as a Best of the Best Program to Watch in the Human Resources & Staff Development category. Its innovative As...
Professional Development, Public Policy
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced 71.3 million dollars in grants, dedicated to expanding n...
Award Programs, Best of the Best Awards, Staffing
2011’s Best of the Best awards honored Horizon Bay Retirement Living’s innovative Job App Network as a Program to Spotlight in the Human Resources & S...
Employee Compensation, Labor Relations, Public Policy
The Direct Care Job Quality Improvement Act aims to ensure that direct care workers receive minimum wage and overtime pay for their services and creat...
Executive Talent Management, Executive Team Development, Management, Organizational Culture, Organizational Structure, Staff Retention, Topical
How patience, effort, and learning support a sustainable business legacy.
Executive Focus Group, Executive Talent Management, Organizational Culture, Staff Retention
Senior living executive directors discuss front-line leadership, staff retention, work-life balance, resident engagement, and more.
Executive Talent Management, Executive Team Development, Organization Development, Organizational Culture
In an exciting new “sprint session” format, multiple presenters have less than 10 minutes to share an innovative employee engagement and retention pra...
Executive Talent Management, Executive Team Development, Organization Development
Exceptional performance is the perfect alignment of skills, rewards, feedback, management style, measurement and culture. Keeping employees engaged to...
Executive Team Development, Organizational Culture
Surrounding yourself with three different types of networks and you will succeed, say authors of "Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Gre...
Executive Talent Management, Executive Team Development
When employees truly own a project, they bring energy and passion to the assignment, and the company wins, says Freddie Mac CEO Charles E. Haldeman, J...
Organizational Culture
To get your employees to reach their highest potential, they have to be excited when they walk in the door, says author Ned Hallowell. Listen in for H...
Management, Organizational Culture, Topical
Five women senior living executives tell their stories–the risks, the rewards, and the advice to aspiring leaders.
Organizational Structure, Science and Technology
“I was doing a soul-crushing amount of work, but I realized I wouldn’t want to be doing anything else and maybe that’s the key to achieving,” says tec...
Executive Talent Management, Executive Team Development, Organizational Culture
Brightview Senior Living VP Brian Engle says his leadership style has evolved over time. “I used to think I had to be the expert.. I now understand th...
Executive Team Development, Professional Development
ALFA honors inspirational administrators, caregivers, and volunteers in its prestigious ALFA Hero Awards competition each year. Nominations are now op...
Executive Talent Management, Organizational Culture
Despite the stereotype, extroverts don’t always make the best leaders, according to research from Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Bu...
Executive Team Development
Whatever you do, make sure it’s your passion. When you follow that advice, it’s hard to go wrong, says Bill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Com...
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