Beatitudes Community

Employee Satisfaction and Alternate Travel Surveys

It is the time of year that we need to accomplish two important projects.  I realize these come on the heels of a very robust open enrollment season, but I promise after the surveys touched on below – HR will leave you alone for a while!

The end of September each year represents the end of a fiscal year and also the end of a WIG year.  As most of you will recall from department projects, Team Talk articles, and All Staff meetings, one of the Campus’ overarching WIGs centered around Employee Satisfaction.  As a baseline, we used the Holleran independent company’s results from spring of 2015 and had well over 80% participation by staff in that survey.  To check our progress at a midway point, we asked staff to complete an online survey on Campus in February 2016 using Survey Monkey and had around 60% participation.  We are now at the point where we want to do a final survey so that we know if we achieved the employee satisfaction goal of increasing from 83.3 to 85.1 (side note, as of February 2016, we had already increased to 85.22 – so anything beyond will be spectacular!).  There are some additional satisfaction questions in the survey that we would like to ask you to answer.  The whole survey should take 5-7 minutes.

The other project that always needs to occur in the fall, is the Alternate Travel Survey.  It is a survey that is required by Maricopa County for all employers with over 50 employees to complete each year.  Like any government or regulatory body, our failure to participate with gusto will lead to nasty letters and monetary fines.  Depending on how fast you click, this survey will take you 60 seconds to 5 minutes (no real typing involved!).  There is also an option to click on Spanish before you start.

So here’s what we need:

  • More than 70% (ideally 80% or better) to participate!
  • I.T. will put the links to the surveys on your desktops or the links are below.
  • For employees that would like computer assistance, HR will again be hosting several sessions in the Resident Computer Lab on the east side of the Central Park West building to assist staff.
  • The schedule can be found in the Managers and Supervisors folder on the P drive if Managers want to formally schedule their staff and posted at time clocks.
  • Both surveys must be completed by ALL campus employees between the time period of 9/14/16 and 9/27/16.

Employee Satisfaction Survey – Fall 2016 link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MRMR9KT

Travel Reduction Program (TRP) Employee Survey link:

http://trpsurvey.maricopa.gov/Employee.aspx

Employee site code:

BEACAC01 (that’s zero, one at the end)

We’ll also be raffling off a few Target Gift Cards at the end of the surveys to thank you for taking time on these important projects – so please let Kim Martin in HR know when you’re done.  She can be reached at Extension 16191 or [email protected].

Questions?  Please reach out to any of us in HR!  Thank you in advance for your time.

What’s in a Name?

What’s in a name? The founders of Beatitudes Campus thought a lot about the name of the campus fifty years ago. At first, the campus was called “North Congregational Retirement Home,” paying tribute to our roots. But, within a few years, they decided that the name just didn’t fit this active community and wasn’t descriptive enough. Our residents and our grounds seemed more like a college than a “retirement home.” Our residents were active, social and lifelong learners. After much reflection, our name was changed to Beatitudes Campus to reflect the lifestyle and the purpose.

Namestorm-Ledger LeadingAge, the national membership organization for not-for-profit continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) like Beatitudes Campus, has embarked on an initiative to find a new name for a continuing care retirement community—one that actually resonates who we are. According to Larry Minnix, president and CEO of LeadingAge, “It’s about the ‘R’ word – retirement – and the ‘C’ word – care.” These two words and the perceptions surrounding them are the reason LeadingAge is spearheading an effort to develop a new name for a continuing care retirement community.

Continuing care retirement communities like Beatitudes Campus are different from other senior living options because they combine an active and robust community where you can live independently with additional services available should the need arise. Yet, the name that we have been using to describe communities—Continuing Care Retirement Community – focuses mostly on care. We want to develop a name that focuses more on the unique living experiences that we have.

Beatitudes Campus residents, families and staff have been chosen by LeadingAge to help in this initiative, called “CCRC NameStorm.” LeadingAge is asking that our residents complete a short, 10-minute survey and be part of shaping the future of CCRCs. The survey is anonymous. It will ask a few general questions and will give you 11 different names and will ask you some questions about each name. The website address for the survey is www.researching.com/namestorm. We encourage you to complete the survey online, either on your own computer or in the Computer Lab on Tuesday the 10th or Thursday the 12th from 10 to 11:00AM. We will have volunteers there to help you complete the survey. We have a very limited number (about 40) paper surveys available at the Welcome Center.

I encourage all of you to participate. Your ideas and input on the survey will spark a new conversation about living as an older adult. Your input will help determine what name best describes the expanding possibilities that can be experienced in a CCRC.

Watch the Community Channel or look for flyers for more specific information about the survey. Thank you for participating in this most important endeavor.