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“VGM Playbook: Protecting Your Most Important Asset: Your People” Now Available!

Published in Member Communities on September 24, 2020

VGM & Associates has released the latest installment of the 2020 playbook, “VGM Playbook: Protecting Your Most Important Asset: Your People.”

Focused on human capital, this playbook contains insight from leaders and experts within VGM and throughout the DMEPOS industry about cultivating company culture, strategies for growth and productivity post-pandemic, how to keep employees engaged during the pandemic, the power of investing in employees, and utilizing everyone’s unique skills to best serve our customers.

“Within VGM & Associates, our employees are encouraged to embrace their individual skills to best serve you, our valuable members,” says Clint Geffert, president of VGM & Associates. “As we continue to navigate the current COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever that we think seriously about human capital, what it means within each of our businesses, and how we can empower, engage, and recharge our employees and coworkers to continue providing the best services and products to customers—in the midst of a pandemic and beyond.”

Members can download their copy at vgm.com/playbook or by logging in to the VGM members-only portal and downloading it from the Playbook tab.

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