We are in the midst of a perfect storm.  In fact, the national consciousness for the need of intervention has never been higher.  This program statistically substantiates the dire circumstances afflicting our current economy, and, provides the best practices to bring a sense of urgency and solution to the current day business owner in making a case for worksite health promotion.  Any organization can move forward with the right support, plan, tools and resources.  This presentation provides the best of evidence based wellness to your business.

• Wellness programs help control cost
• Wellness programs reduce absenteeism
• Wellness programs increase productivity
• Wellness programs improve employee morale and enhance productivity
• Wellness programs address presenteeism at the workplace

 

What is a good business?  This question comes with many answers.  It also comes from many people.  How many perspectives, employer, employee, client, end user, creator, it may come in many forms.  But some principles of business will never be overlooked.  Some of the tenants of good business are timeless principles and practices that truly are sustained, even in times of great change.  Other things, new paradigms, rethinking good business is a case to consider.  We are in a perfect storm right now and there is not a better time in the history of human kind to take to heart the forward thinking and innovative paradigms of good business.

There is s direct correlation between well employees and well companies.  This program will place a new attention on the importance of the building good company and sustaining good business through the lens of health literacy, human capital and wellness.

• Return on investment of building a results oriented wellness program.
• The benefits of a health literate company
• Overview of health promotion and components of best practice organizations.
• Return on investment of building a results oriented wellness program.
• The role of the CEO and Senior managers in Wellness

 

If you had a toothache would you go to a teacher to have it pulled?   Probably not.  What is happening right now in wellness, is that people, good people, at the workplace are being asked to completely run a wellness program, and have little or no experience or resources to carry out this feat.  This session is to provide you, the CEO, Manager, Safety or HR Director with the basic formula to move forward in your own organization to create a healthy and productive workforce.

• Identify health issues
• Select the most changeable issues
• Choose culture change strategies
• Establish the change standard
• Planning the who, when and what of wellness
• Educate and Motivating Employees
• Create a coalition for health task force

 

The typical workplace  is stereotype for primarily offering little attention  to chronic circumstances of the health of an organization. But the progressive company is powerfully reinventing  itself and providing many proactive programs that enhance health productivity and worksite wellness.  This session provides participants with the best practices in delivering health productivity and worksite wellness programs through the EAP services.

Most Americans will be affected by chronic disease such as cancer, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease.  Most of the diseases are caused by unhealthy behaviors.  These chronic diseases account for much of the health care cost burden.  Poor health behaviors such as unhealthy diet, lack of regular physical activity, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and poor stress management techniques lead to poor quality of life at work life and home life.

Your company can no longer afford to support sick behaviors in your employees.  There is an economic shift and an economic case for supporting healthy individual behaviors and healthy environments.  Worksite wellness programs get to the heart of the health care crisis by changing unhealthy employee behaviors through a strategic plan that produces and healthy workers are good for business.

• Key strategies for transforming your organization
• Examples of errors associated with non-strategic and tailored approaches to wellness
• Best practices for moving your organization forward to corporate success using wellness incentives.

 

Whether we work in business, government, the fitness industry, education or health care, the strengths movement adds significant new perspectives that have the potential to impact the health and well-being of human beings more than perhaps any other innovation in history.  Over 4 million people have completed the Clifton StrengthsFinder profile and the Values in Action Assessments created by Peterson and Seligman.  Despite the overwhelming support for these ideas, there is a disconnect between this movement and these fundamental drivers of work life such as employee morale and productivity enhancement.  This session highlight the advantages of the strengths perspective in building best practice companies, employees, communities, schools, families and individuals and provides solid strategy for moving from preparation to action in the strengths based paradigms.

• Examine language, constructs and tools being used to plan strength based interventions in corporate, public service, economic, education, faith based organizations, coaching and charity endeavors.
• Showcase 3 interventions from the strengths movement that drives good business.
• Provide 3 pragmatic segues for moving from the preparation stage to the action stage of strengths based interventions.

 

You should be encouraged by the following truth:   the world in which we live in is demanding new ideas, new ways of doing things, new inventions, new leaders and new methods, styles and versions of everything all the time.  Companies that enjoy enduring success have a formula that any company can use to adapt to a changing world.  Health and Safety combined can be the most powerful productivity solution at your workplace for minimizing risk and keeping current systems operating.  This session introduces the newest tools essential for measuring productivity and presenteeism at the workplace and pinpointing return on investment from these initiatives.  Truly great companies understand the difference between what should never change and what should be open for change.  The ability to manage proactively and towards positive organizational development will be delivered.  It is time to move from status quo to a deep respect for the individual, dedication to affordable quality and reliability, a commitment to community responsibility and a view that companies exist to make contributions for the advancement and welfare of humanity.  A good company sustains good business.  This session will pinpoint the newest measures in productivity that provide the glue that holds organizations together as they grow, decentralize, diversity and expand globally.  You will leave this session will a new outlook on workplace capital and workplace productivity.

• Identify the four types of capital that provide opportunity for return on investment in any organization.
• Define presenteeism and apply this to safety and health at the workplace.
• Examine and apply the eight step model for transforming your organization and creating ROI for good business.

 

Ask any manager, leader, CEO and there will usually be a mention of "the bottom line" economics and sustainability of company services through continued capital gain and investment security.  This, in and of itself, is vital to the measurement of success of any company or entity thriving in today's competitive economy. Could there be however, some context, some model of good business where a meaningful life in which work and the pursuit of financial rewards can find their proper places?   Can there be both business success and a commitment to broader social goals in and outside of the workplace?  This session focuses on innovative and powerful strategies for defining well-being that can create adherence and consistency through empowerment.  No longer can we rely on economic indices alone to successfully carry our lives, our work and our professions.

The transformation and measurement of prosperity and success lies in both economic indicators and non-economic indicators where meaning and purpose in life is valued and recognized.  In the end, there will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from businesses that allow clients to enhance living beyond large quarterly economic return and pursue a new paradigm of well-being.
Provide information regarding the connection between positive psychology theory and practice and patient /client well-being. 

Explore and analyze science-based health education/health promotion approaches to developing wellness that creates adherence and consistency in client's habits/lives.
Recognize the shortcomings of viewing well-being secondary to rudimentary and economic indices and review economic and well-being approaches to society, income and work.

• Articulate a core vision of ideology at the workplace
• Determine the envisioned future
• Establish the core values that drive economic, social, human and psychological capital

 

Why is it that being a team member requires so much work? Everyone agrees with the concept of teamwork, right?  Yet, there always seems to be one person on our team who doesn't "get" it.  They're just impossible to work with.  If a team can reach higher levels of productivity than an individual, where does this dysfunction come from?  This workshop will examine several common dysfunctional behaviors on teams, the impact of those behaviors and deliver 5  strategies you can use immediately that are create fun,  increase team synergy, and provide for the existence of mutual respect.  The presentation components will also challenge participants to look at themselves and their own behaviors to see if they are contributing beneficial behaviors or destructive behaviors to their teams at work. 
Examine five dysfunctional behavior of a team
Analyze the impact of dysfunctional behavior on the team
Engage in 5 strategies for increasing team synergy and enhancing mutual respect

• Examine eight common dysfunctional behaviors on teams.
• Using an experiential process, apply successful strategies used to build protective team and supportive cultural factors.
• Examine techniques that create non-threatening work environments.
• Present strategies that build collaborative intentions in teams that are guaranteed to spark synergy, and to bring affirming, successful outcomes towards a shared vision of positive and supportive culture.