Valentine’s Day is a pretty big deal at Eliza.
And why not?
It’s about celebrating life, enjoying yourself, friends and family and the meaningful connections that intertwine us all.
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So how to celebrate?
How about some impromptu cards, temporary tattoos and chocolate? (All things in moderation, of course.)
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Moderation? Oh yeah, did we mention the world’s largest gummy bear?  No?
Okay.  Well we did that [...]

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We talk a lot at Eliza about accountability and ownership. It is even one of the criteria that we rate employees against when evaluating their performance. This concept really hit home for me this week when an incident happened with my daughter, who is in the fifth grade.
All the elementary classes at her school were [...]

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Every year Eliza throws a holiday shindig.
Food, fun, friends and of course…
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Dancing!
Our CEO and President Luke and Alex can cut a rug.  We found this footage in the old Eliza archives and decided to share with [...]

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I have written in past blogs about cultivating an exciting environment at Eliza and how we as a company are always striving to innovate and improving upon what we know and do.
As an HR professional, I don’t claim to know it all, and one way we try to keep our edge is to check out what other [...]

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Engage With Grace ranks as one of the 10 phrases that became part of the healthcare lexicon in 2009. 

Thank you again to all who supported this non-partisan effort to have end-of-life care wishes expressed and honored. If nothing else, health reform has given us the opportunity to introduce the concept in a fresh way.
So, what [...]

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Few of us really eat as well as we should.
It’s especially tough in the office.  Tough to get the right food prepared.  So often we end up grabbing junk — and taking a long time to do it.
We’ve found a solution that’s working for us: the office snack bar.
Bring in some healthy, quick stuff: bread, peanut butter, oranges, [...]

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Go online and shop for clothes that have been selected to fit your shape at MyShape.com. Log on to Facebook and see ads that have been selected especially for you. What’s going on?
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According to Bruce Kasanoff, author of and founder of the blog NowPossible.com, what we are witnessing is the emerging personal economy—not just in [...]

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Thank you to everyone who participated in the second annual Blog Rally – as you can see from this partial list of participants it was a great success.
We counted over 100 posts plus countless tweets and Facebook postings – people spreading the word and sharing their stories over Thanksgiving weekend.
And for that, we are incredibly [...]

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Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate our end-of-life wishes.
It was a great success, with over 100 bloggers in the healthcare space and beyond participating and spreading the word. Plus, it [...]

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Another great article about the importance of broaching difficult conversations around end-of-life wishes appears in the Indianapolis Star this week.

The piece offers advice on how to have these conversations (including using the five questions  offered on Engage With Grace) in a way that’s non-partisan, not mired in legal mumbo-jumbo… just, well, human.
And what better example [...]

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John Kroeker didn’t know it at the time, but a hitchhiking nun in 1978 changed the course of his life.
This doctoral student in neurobiology and behavior at Cornell made an impulsive decision to drive the nun upstate to her ashram instead of going back to campus, and the conversation they had about meditation during that [...]

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The recession has a way of bringing savings strategies into the mainstream. Competitive coupon clipping, for example.
There’s a great article in Healthcare IT News about how the recession has also driven a trend to more automated calls in healthcare – especially when it comes to connecting people with clinicians who offer health and wellness support.

It’s no secret [...]

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Eliza tries a lot of things.  Some work and some don’t.  That’s the price of innovation.
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One of the crazier things we’ve tried, that actually worked and worked well, was Speed Recruiting.
Basically take speed dating (five minutes at a table, bell rings, rotate, repeat) and apply it to an interviewing process and there you have it.
As [...]

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Eliza had quite a happening at the 2009 Health 2.0 in San Francisco.
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Click through the slide show below to see the whole shabang.
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Highlights include Eliza hosting a cocktail party…
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… (we always love a party).
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Alex was interviewed in a session called “Three CEOs and a (kick @ss) President” where she announced Eliza and Sprigley joining forces [...]

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WOW! I know that word doesn’t quite explain the feeling of having your company and president mentioned (several times) in HR Magazine, but it is about all I can come up with.
SHRM, which is the Society of Human Resources Management, is a great organization (I actually belong to the Austin chapter) that has been around [...]

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