As we continue our journey to becoming an employer of choice, we find new and creative ways to help employees be engaged and successful at Moraine Park.  We have an exciting opportunity for our employees and supervisors to make clear connections, increase engagement and create and meet career goals through stay conversations.

In the Fall of 2017, the College will launch the CLEAR Connections program.  CLEAR Connections is a structured stay conversation process that helps to improve communication, empower leaders to enhance connections and performance with the team, and provide a tool to specifically address areas of employee engagement.  Our goals with the CLEAR Connections process are to:
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Our employees and staff members may be hearing new terms around the College, such as “Learning Agility”, “ViaEdge”, “job profiling” and others.  Many of you have heard about our talent management programming and its first implementation phase, and others may still be wondering what all this means. So, I would like to take a little time to talk to you about job profiling – Was is it?  Why are we doing it?  How will it help MPTC?
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Set a Goal!

Many of our staff participated in the TalentWatch employee engagement survey by taking the survey and/or participating in the follow-up discussion and action planning.   For those who took part, you may recall that one of the items that we rated in the TalentWatch survey was:
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What do you get when you combine Hawaiian shirt day and a pogo stick?  Engagement!  Well, I don’t know if you would get that every time you combined those two items, but this Spring that combination demonstrated staff engagement. Dr. Stan Cram, our VP of Student Affairs, was sporting a Hawaiian shirt to support our Foundation and student scholarships.  The pogo stick was just for fun!

Speaking of engagement, as Moraine Park’s Director of Talent Management, let me offer an update on the employee engagement and talent management activities at MPTC.
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Employee Engagement and Talent Management

We are excited to share the Employee Engagement and Talent Management Plan with you!  At risk of sounding like an Oscar Winner… we would like to thank all of the people who helped provide ideas, feedback, creativity and support along the way.  This truly was a College-wide effort.

One of the focal points of Innovation 2020 is to build a supportive culture to make us an employer of choice.  Two key objectives for the College are to enhance an environment that fosters greater collaboration, employee satisfaction and engagement, and to develop effective strategies, opportunities and resources to engage employees.  We believe that this plan will help us meet both of those objectives, and more!
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