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Workplace Wellness

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Total Workplace Wellness Program

Are you doing your part to keep your employees healthy? A recent survey reports health / wellness programs as the most difficult objective facing employers in 2008. It's a fact raising health care costs are placing a financial "pinch" on employers and employees alike. Additional costs are also impacting many companies from workers' comp claims and absenteeism / productivity issues.

Now you can create a customized wellness program with little effort using this all new Workplace Wellness Program.

The program is simple--it starts off on the first day with everything you need:

  • Unique guidebook that will show you how to assess and identify health risks, provides you with training materials and describes how to implement custom solutions.
  • Quarterly manager's newsletter that covers all the latest wellness news, case studies and tips on running an effective program.
  • Interactive employee PowerPoint training on key wellness topics such as Managing Stress, All About Nutrition, Healthy Aging, Mental Awareness and more.

Then you will receive quarterly updates of the guidebook, manager's newsletter and a new PowerPoint training session to keep your program fresh and new!

This program will help you improve the overall wellness of your biggest asset--your employees. Wellness programs do not have to be complicated or expensive. Make this program your first step toward developing a healthier workplace and control your healthcare benefit costs!

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Workplace Wellness: Healthy Employees, Healthy Families, Healthy ROI - Print Version

This unique guidebook will show you how to assess and identify workplace health risks and implement custom solutions that will improve the overall wellness of your biggest asset - your employees! Wellness programs do not have to be complicated or expensive. Let this guidebook be your first step toward developing a healthier workplace.

Also includes assessment tools, forms, educational materials and handouts which are ideal for training.

Table Contents

Introduction
What is Workplace Wellness (and can it really work)?
Wellness Defined

Chapter 1
Linking Wellness to Business
Linking Wellness Goals to Business Outcomes
The Importance of an Effective Wellness Program
Profiles of Successful Workplace Wellness Programs
But Can Employee Behavior Really be Influenced to Change

Chapter 2
Step 1: Create a Wellness Champion Among Senior Management
Make the Business Case for Workplace Wellness
Give Wellness the Respect It Deserves

Chapter 3
Step 2: Assess the Current Level of Wellness in Your Workplace
Make the Business Case for Workplace Wellness
Give Wellness the Respect it Deserves

Chapter 4
Step 3: Create a Customized Operating Plan
Mission Statement
SMART Objectives
Specific Initiatives
Implementation Timeline
Evaluation Plan
Budget
Legal Issues

Chapter 5
Step 4: Launch Your Wellness Program
How to Run an Effective Health Fair

Chapter 6
Step 5: Communicate, Educate, Motivate, Empower
Communicate
Educate
Motivate
Empower

Chapter 7
Step 6: Measure, Assess, and Adjust
Employee Satisfaction Measurement
Wellness Measurement
Financial Measurement
Putting it All Together

Appendices
Appendix A: Legal Considerations
Appendix B: Assessment Tools
Appendix C: Wellness Program Forms
Appendix D: Training Resources
Appendix E: Educational Materials
Appendix F: Wellness Web Resources

  • Workplace Wellness: Healthy Employees, Healthy Families, Healthy ROI - Print Version $249.99 [Add to Cart]
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The Complete Guide to Wellness

The Complete Guide to Wellness is the culmination of over 20 years of applied research in over 100 companies. The materials in this book were first tested in hospital settings under physician supervision and were later implemented in companies with leading behavioral psychologists and organizational change experts. The training modules contained in this book have been used successfully by hundreds of thousands of employees in companies such as AT&T, Southwestern Bell, and Ford Motor Company. The results from these interventions have been published in numerous journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association. This book incorporates recent findings from behavioral medicine, cultural medicine, organizational behavior, and medical research.

The Complete Guide to Wellness includes all the reproducible materials you need to run either a self-study or group program on any of the topics covered. The Lifestyles Possibilities Assessment is a full-screen assessment that correlates to the workshop, so you know which topic is the most important to start with.

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How to Achieve Ultimate Success - DVD

What is ultimate success? No one is really sure and for everyone it is surely different. Is it great wealth, good health and true happiness? Or is it some combination of each? Could it be "a win" with the next business deal or an extended vacation with our family that makes us feel successful? No matter what, we are all looking to become more successful than we are.

In How To Achieve Ultimate Success , Dr. Paul Timm presents a psychologically sound approach to help you reach the ultimate success you desire in both your business and personal life.

The program looks at the five building blocks to success. They include: Perspective and how we view control; Purpose, clarifying our values and aligning our activities; Personality, determining how assertive and receptive we really are; Planning, setting goals; and, Productivity, beating the time wasters that keep us from success.

Plus, you'll learn to evaluate the balance or lack of balance in your life on the wellness wheel and how this directly affects your success.

Can anyone guarantee you success? Of course not. However, we can tell you that if you follow this system you can't help but improve your professional and personal life. This program is a must for any organization.

Complete with DVD, audio CD and book. Available in NTSC or PAL. 45 minutes.

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Avoiding Workplace Stress DVD Kit

In the office, warehouse or just in the daily hectic schedule of today's world there is a potentially explosive problem that affects employees--stress! Experts say that stress on the job is a triple "A" threat to your company and your employees' wellness . . . leading to "A"ccidents, "A"bsences and hostile "A"ttitudes. You'll appreciate everything that's included with this complete ready-to-use training kit. Set the meeting date, and the training program is ready to run.

It’s everything you need to easily train groups or individual workers:

  • Comprehensive, lively DVD
    DVD-based training is a great foundation for any safety training program. This DVD takes your employees step-by-step through workplace stress and the importance of how to cope.
  • Train new workers, or refresh existing ones and promote employee wellness
    The beauty of this DVD is that you can use it for a group, or just one worker, without tying up your time. Perfect for authorized as well as incidental training
  • Extensive handouts
    Includes 20 workbooks, 20 booklets, and training certificates. These handouts reinforce the points learned in the DVD

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50 Activities for Managing Stress - Binder/Book
  • Understanding stress
  • Types of stress
  • Stress and performance
  • Sources of stress
  • Managing stress

Training Objectives

  • Identify the various forms of stress
  • Decide which types of people may be susceptible to stress
  • Examine the different sources of stress and the impact on people and their performance
  • Examine the kinds of coping strategies that individuals and groups use and how these strategies affect performance

  • 50 Activities for Managing Stress - Binder/Book $159.99 [Add to Cart]
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Personal Stress & Well-being Assessment: Facilitator's Guide

Understanding the nature of stress at a detailed level is the basis upon which we can start to manage it effectively. The Personal Stress and Well-being Assessment provides a simple but thorough process by which we can better understand our own stress handling skills.

The Facilitator's Guide for this assessment contains sets of coaching tips for each stress behavior or factor, enabling participants to improve their stress profiles wherever they have development needs. A workshop outline reviews each competency and includes guidance on leading discussions.

The Personal Stress and Well Being assessment provides scores on 7 competencies that impact personal stress levels:

  • Predisposition (Do you put yourself under pressure?)
  • Physical Fitness (Do you actively manage your physical condition?)
  • Nutrition and Diet (Do you influence your eating choices to eat healthier?)
  • Personal Well-being (Do you avoid practices that are bad for your body?)
  • Emotional Balance (Are you in emotional balance most of the time?)
  • Emotional Habits and Control (Can you control your emotions?)
  • Work Life (Do you manage and control your work or does it control you?)

This self scoring assessment enables you to identify specific behaviors and competencies that may be contributing to higher stress levels for you. There are recommendations for action that low scorers can take to reduce their stress.

Personal Stress & Well-being Assessment - Package of 5 (Sold Separately)

This 84 item, self scoring assessment enables an individual to learn to manage stress effectively through a detailed understanding of 7 stress handling competencies.

  • Personal Stress & Well-being Assessment: Facilitator's Guide $129.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Personal Stress & Well-being Assessment - Package of 5 $49.99 [Add to Cart]
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Managing Stress On and Off the Job PowerPoint & Booklet Kit

Managing Stress On and Off the Job PowerPoint & Booklet Kit

Stress on the job is a triple threat to your business leading to Accidents, Absences, and business busting hostile Attitudes toward co-workers and customers. This PowerPoint training kit gives you a training class that's ready to go right out of the box.

This kit includes:

  • A 30-slide customizable PowerPoint presentation
    Makes training a breeze by including prewritten speaker's notes. All you have to do is point, click, and train.
  • Completion certificates
    Print these out and document which employees completed training.
  • Quizzes and handouts
    Prewritten quizzes and handouts give you ready-made training materials and test your employees knowledge.
  • 20 booklets
    Includes 20, 16-page informative booklets with easy-to-read explanations on important topics such as: managing stress that starts at home, work-life balance, and the benefits of channeling stress in productive ways.

    • Managing Stress On and Off the Job PowerPoint & Booklet Kit $299.99 [Add to Cart]
    • Managing Stress On and Off the Job (Booklets / 25 Pack) $49.99 [Add to Cart]
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Overcoming Stress at Work - DVD

Had enough STRESS? ...Ughhh! This training program reveals valuable information about the human mind and body that can help turn you into an "Anxiety Analyst" and control much of the stress you feel everyday at work and at home.

Overcoming Stress At Work defines stress, helps you identify your own stresses, teaches you the physical symptoms of stress-and relays positive mental-changing techniques to overcome non-positive stress once and for all. Comes with a DVD, CD audio, and a copy of the book "Overcoming Anxiety at Work," by Jane R. Miskell, which is part of the Business Skills Express Series published by The McGraw-Hill Companies. 19 minutes

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Handling the Baggage - DVD

Released - 2008

Free Online Preview

All sorts of different people make up a workplace. Everyone is impacted by a complex range of personal circumstances that go on outside of work - things shaped by personalities, relationships, finances and physical and social environments. Sometimes personal issues can dominate someone to the extent that their performance at work is affected - they bring their 'baggage' to work with them.

This film, hosted by one of Australia's leading television and arts industry personalities, Michael Veitch, considers issues around identifying and dealing with emotional distress at work. Handling the Baggage contains valuable information and strategies for managers and employees alike.

18 minutes

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Essential Safety Policies - Binder/Book

A strong workplace safety program will boost productivity and your employee's morale. BLR's Essential Safety Policies is an authoritative source of guidance and information to which managers and supervisors can turn not only in situations where the "right" course of action is unclear, but also in cases where they are tempted to act on memory or instinct.

With a policy manual to point the way, company managers and supervisors will be able to act swiftly and consistently.

The following policies are included:

  • Workplace Safety Management
  • Safety in the Workplace
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Work Rules
  • Accident Reports
  • Communicable Diseases
  • Workers' Compensation
  • Security Rules and Regulations
  • Workplace Contraband
  • Violence in the Workplace
  • Disciplinary Procedures
  • Fitness for Duty
  • Safety Programs