BetterYou is a company that focuses on workplace wellness and employee mental health. They provide solutions to address employee burnout and stress management.

BetterYou

In 2007 32% of discretionary time was spent on a screen, By 2017 that number was 90%. BetterYou is your Healthy Habits Companion that helps you make better digital decisions every single day, by linking them back to the things you care most about, your values. Once you define what “time better spent” looks like, and we help you stay on track. 

We provide population-level insights back to the company organizations, helping them drive health savings downstream by improving their employees’ overall wellness.

BetterYou is the only Healthy Habits Companion that makes it easy to take control of your time, achieve your goals, and improve your life. Unlike other habit-forming and wellness goal tracking apps that require manual entry, BetterYou monitors and logs progress automatically for users and integrates with over 10,000 popular health and wellness apps. 



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“One of the most common mistakes companies make is to approach engagement as a sporadic exercise in making their employees feel happy -- usually around the time when a survey is coming up.” - Gallup

AKA a pre-survey pizza party =/= long-term employee engagement. 🚫🍕🚫

So, if you're an HR leader looking to cultivate true employee engagement, set aside the 'za and focus on these five key drivers:

1. Purpose 🧭
More than short-term thrills, employees seek something deeper to propel them forward. A unique goal, specialty, or skill they can be known for.

2. Development ⬆️
Just doing the work--even if it's being done well--isn't enough to drive employee engagement. Without a sense of professional development built into a role, employees will inevitably become less and less engaged with their position.

3. A Focus on Strengths 💪
Looking for a surefire way to disengage your employees? Focus their work around tasks that aren't in their wheelhouses. Finding ways for employees to flex their strengths in a productive way benefits everyone.

4. A Caring Manager ❤️ 
No one wants Bill Lumbergh as their manager (Uhhhh... Yeaaaahhhh...). Professional care, courtesy, and empathy are crucial to fostering any type of employee engagement. 

5. Ongoing Conversations 🗣️ 
And that care above needs to come at a regular clip. Ongoing conversations about an employee's work, satisfaction, and goals gives the clear signal their wants and needs are being thought of. When people are cared for -- and told so -- they're able to be engaged and do their best work.

What key drivers of employee engagement have you seen in your #HR day-to-day? Share your gold nuggets of wisdom in the comments. 🧠🥇 

#EmployeeWellness #EmployeeEngagement

The RT button probably seemed innocuous when it was first developed. 

“Hey, what if users could instantly share a Tweet they thought was cool?”

What harm could there be? But with that power to instantly blast a Tweet into the digital ether, information that was misrepresented (at best) or fabricated and harmful (at worst) could spread much more rapidly than before. RTs of RTs of RTs of RTs of RTs of a false piece of information could snake their way through the platform at breakneck speed.

But hey, that’s on the users, right?

No. Not by a long shot. 

Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin of Center for Humane Technology have discussed this very issue. To combat irresponsible creation and use of new technology, they propose three rules. While the rules were created with the advent of AI in mind, they extend to any form of new technology. 

Even something as small as a RT button.

1️⃣ 
“When we invent a new technology, we uncover a new class of responsibility. We didn't need the right to be forgotten until computers could remember us forever, and we didn't need the right to privacy in our laws until cameras were mass-produced. As we move into an age where technology could destroy the world so much faster than our responsibilities could catch up, it's no longer okay to say it's someone else's job to define what responsibility means.”

2️⃣ 
“If that new technology confers power, it will start a race. Humane technologists are aware of the arms races their creations could set off before those creations run away from them – and they notice and think about the ways their new work could confer power.”

3️⃣ 
“If we don’t coordinate, the race will end in tragedy. No one company or actor can solve these systemic problems alone. When it comes to AI, developers wrongly believe it would be impossible to sit down with cohorts at different companies to work on hammering out how to move at the pace of getting this right – for all our sakes.”

Now, think of those three rules when it comes to Likes, endless feeds driven by algorithms, AI content… the list goes on.

Are those rules being followed?

Happy Juneteenth! Celebrate past victories. Acknowledge present challenges. Continue to push for true equity for all.  🔴🟢🟡⚫️

#Juneteenth

A recent report from Maven Clinic showed more than 67% of LGBTIQA+ employees are looking to grow or start a family soon. Benefits for those employees, however, are typically lacking.

Your organization can better support LGBTQIA+ employees and their growing families by expanding benefits in these five ways:

🟥 Fertility and Family-building Care
🟧 Adoption Support
🟩 Mental Health Support
🟦 Paid Parental Leave
🟪 Career Coaching and Professional Development

Read more from Maven:

https://lnkd.in/gUnivXtQ

#Pride #EmployeeWellness

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