Archive for June 2019
NOTEBOOK: Coming to your employees’ mailboxes: dental aligners
UnitedHealthcare Specialty Benefits has partnered with SmileDirectClub to offer clear aligners for most participants of employer-sponsored and individual dental plans that provide orthodontic coverage. The companies say the new network relationship is among the first …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Partnership launches regional discussion on AI and the workforce
What does artificial intelligence mean to you? And how will AI affect your organization and its workforce needs?
It’s a conversation that may or may not be happening already inside your walls, but it’s the …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Is your company casting a wide enough net?
Iowa companies will need to rethink the ways they recruit, train and re-skill their employees if they want to be the disrupters in their industries rather than the disrupted, says Pallavi Verma. As Midwest senior …
Read MoreMcLellan: Dads are natural marketers
I wear a lot of hats, but there’s none I love more than being a dad. I was reflecting on some of the ways that we dads parent (or at least some of the stereotypes …
Read MoreThe Elbert Files: City Hall steps up
“You can’t fight city hall” is an old saying that we know is not true. People do it all the time and win.
But what about the next level?
Can city hall fight state government …
Read MoreA seat at the table
Behind the scenes at Iowa hospitals, pharmacy staffs routinely spend considerable parts of their workdays ensuring they can obtain adequate amounts of critical drugs, dozens of which are in chronically short supply across the country. …
Read MoreA Closer Look: Kristen Sabin
Kristen Sabin found a job opening at marketing agency Happy Medium just after she returned to Iowa from time in New York City. In 2012, the company was just founder/CEO Katie Patterson and a handful …
Read MoreOperation Kidsafe to open first year-round center for Iowa
Operation Kidsafe International, an Illinois-based national nonprofit that provides free children’s identification for parents to use in the event that their child becomes missing, is opening a year-round center in Ankeny. The Year-Round Child Safety Center, …
Read MoreA midyear market checkup from Wells Fargo’s chief investment officer
Although growth will likely continue to slow this year, the U.S. economy is on track to attain the longest economic recovery since the late 1940s, as the current expansion extends past the 10-year mark in …
Read MoreInitial Employer Innovation Fund grant round to begin June 21
Iowa Workforce Development will begin accepting applications for the new Future Ready Iowa Employer Innovation Fund grant program on June 21, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced. The initial round of applications will be due Aug. 1, …
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