Enhance Your Employees Experience & Productivity Through Skills-Based Volunteering

Apr 16, 2015 4:00 PM ET
Skills-based volunteering boosts employee engagement and teamwork

Enhance Your Employees Experience & Productivity Through Skills-Based Volunteer…

Look around… the professional world we live in today is significantly different from what it was just a few decades ago. Today’s professional environment is less about what an employee can do for a company and more about the type of working environment a company can offer its employees. Workers today want more meaning from their work-life and are quick to jump ship if their aspirations aren’t met. And research from the Yale School of Management shows that employees who value their employer’s social contributions are more engaged, more productive and more loyal, so workplace giving initiatives are key to employee engagement. But one-size does not fit all and corporations need to tailor their corporate philanthropy programs to match their employees’ diverse interests and talents… and one way of doing this is by leveraging each worker’s unique strengths into skills-based volunteering (SBV). Read more here.