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Veteran Speakers Network (VSN)EARN’s Veteran Speakers Network (VSN) helps businesses understand how to navigate the various resources available for hiring, retaining, managing and promoting veterans with disabilities. The VSN accomplishes this by speaking at events, conferences and other national speaking engagements. I am interested in having a member of the VSN speak at my event. I am interested in finding out more about or joining the VSN. |
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Managing Veterans as Employees
EARN’s Veteran Initiatives understands today’s fast-moving business environment and demands. We can help your business become adept in identifying the needs and workplace accommodations of your veterans with service-connected disabilities. We recommend a proven method that involves:
1. Using strategic thinking
Understand that each employee is an individual. What works for one may not work for all.
2. Understanding behavior
Employees who have bad experiences with their disability in the workplace tend to adopt instinctive modes of behavior that are self-protective rather than open and collaborative. Let them know that no one is perfect and we all have strengths and weaknesses.
3. Ensuring that lower-level needs are met
Employees have various kinds of needs. Examples of lower-level needs are salary, job security and working conditions. Addressing these basic needs increases employee satisfaction. Consequently, a disregard of these basic needs nearly always explain dissatisfaction among staff.
4. Appraising to motivate
When choosing methods of assessing employee’s performance, always make sure that the end has a positive effect and increases the employee’s sense of self-worth.
5. Encouraging contact
Build rapport with employees with a chat or small talk. Ask about their accommodations.
Using this method, EARN’s Veteran Initiatives Group can assist you in designing the appropriate retention strategy for your organization. In addition, we can provide support in disability matters such as legal concerns, co-workers’ comfort and etiquette and federal reporting requirements. For more information, you can contact an EARN Employment Specialist at: earn@earnworks.com or toll-free at 1-866-327-6669 (M-F, 9 AM – 5 PM, EST).
