Healthy Employees, Healthy Business: Simple, Reasonably priced Ways tο Promote Workplace Wellness
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Money-saving steps tο improve worker health аnd productivity — аnd уουr bottom line
Aѕ health care costs skyrocket, small business owners аrе increasingly concerned аbουt thе impact thеу′re lіkеlу tο hаνе οn company profits. Worker illness, chronic poor health, low job satisfaction, аnd high turnover lead tο lower productivity аnd contribute heavily tο lost company earnings.
Healthy Employees, Healthy Business draws οn thе expertise οf аn advisory board οf doctors, law
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Review by Just Me for Healthy Employees, Healthy Business: Simple, Reasonably priced Ways to Promote Workplace Wellness
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This book is fantastic for anyone involved in “workplace wellness”, whether out of humanitarian reasons, or in an effort to improve productivity. Nolo has many very excellent books, and more than their impart of truly fantastic ones (and they use many of the workplace wellness practices mentioned in this book, so here may be a tie in here). This is one of Nolo’s fantastic ones. Very thorough, both in size and depth. Covers why businesses should promote worker wellness — in a nutshell, healthy employees who are not overstressed are more productive and have fewer sick days (whether they are really sick or not). Delightfully well written as well. Who would have thought that a book on worker wellness would really be enjoyable, rather than just informative, to read?
Although it says the book was written by Ilona Bray, please note that here were many advisors, including Dr. Kenneth Pelletizer (clinical professor of medicine at the University of Arizona and the University of California Teach of Medicine); Dr. Albert Ray (Physician Boss for Patient Education & Health Promotion at Kaiser Permanente), Rae Lee Olson (principal with Vita Benefits Group, an worker benefits brokerage & consulting firm), and many others.
The chapters are:
Working Without Tobacco
1) Why You Need a Healthy Workplace
2) Strategies for a Successful Wellness Program
3) Making It Real: Worksite Evaluation & Program Launch
4) Prevention & Early Detection
5) Healthy Eating & Nutrition
6) Fitness & Exercise
7) Lowering Stress Levels
9) Helping the Addicted Worker
10) Reducing Obesity
11) Dealing With Chronic Illness
12) Choosing Health Benefits
13) Drafting Workplace Policies That Promote Health
This book gives such fantastic coverage of how to really go about starting and running a workplace wellness program that you will feel prepared to do so. It is not one of those books that tries to convince you to do something and then leaves you unprepared to really do it. The author(s) have fantastic psychological insights, and guide you into being a right leader toward wellness for your workplace. This book teaches you not just what to do, but HOW to make it happen.
Review by Joanna Daneman for Healthy Employees, Healthy Business: Simple, Reasonably priced Ways to Promote Workplace Wellness
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Right now, here is a huge debate on how to cut the high cost of health insurance. One way employers are seeking to help lower costs is by assisting employees to stay healthy. Healthy people are more productive, have fewer sick days and cost less for insurance. It’s a win-win. No one likes being sick. Here are simple things to do, outlined in this book, to promote wellness and some of the thoughts don’t even cost a fantastic deal.
This book goes over some of the aspects of wellness (drinkers are often out Mondays and Fridays, people with minor illnesses take off rainy days.) Here are a lot of fascinating facts, such as a discussion of “presentee-ism” which is when people show up to work sick instead of staying home with an infectious illness. If here is an epidemic of flu, an employer concerned about wellness might deliberate making it clear that staying home when sick is better for the company and YOUR job than struggling in and making the entire department ill.
Here are discussions of obesity and how to set up supportive programs to encourage employees to get fit. Even changing the vending apparatus to provide healthy foods. I reckon this is all helpful information–I can remember one employer who had their cafeteria reclassified as “factory” from “office” by their large corporate contracting department, and the people working here complained their soup and salad selections had been replaced by greasy burgers. This kind of awareness of how the employer fits into overall health is something that any managerial staff should take note of. Here are also thoughts for small businesses, who are certainly more unnatural if worker health and efficiency suffers. Fantastic book, full of thoughts to promote wellness and productivity.
Review by Alain B. Burrese for Healthy Employees, Healthy Business: Simple, Reasonably priced Ways to Promote Workplace Wellness
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“Healthy Employees, Healthy Business: Simple, Reasonably priced Ways to Promote Workplace Wellness” by Ilona Bray and a team of experts is a excellent book that may go unnoticed by many businesses. In these hard economic times for many, starting a wellness program may not be on the forefront of many corporate and business leader’s thoughts. But, as keen out in the first chapter, “Why You Need a Healthy Workplace,” the incorporation of wellness programs and the encouragement and help with keeping employees healthy can significantly increase the bottom line. The statistics in the book claim that most companies have a positive return on the investment of instituting wellness programs. The book claims that only a small minority of companies fail to break even and that’s often because their initial investment of time and money was too low.
The book then goes on with chapters on strategies for a successful wellness program; worksite evaluations and program launches; prevention and early detection to help employees stay well; very basics on healthy eating, nutrition, fitness and exercise; suggestions for lowering stress levels, working without tobacco, helping an addicted worker, reducing obesity, dealing with chronic illnesses, choosing health benefits, and finally drafting workplace policies that promote health.
The book also contains a CD-ROM that includes forms such as Wellness Plot Worksheet, Wellness Program Interest Survey, Treatment Center Evaluation Form, a Food and Exercise Diary among a few others. Additionally, here are the audio MP3 records on Why Make a Wellness Program, Wellness Program Incentives, and Wellness Program – Walking.
Much of the information on health in this book can be found in greater detail in books specifically on the theme, but the fleeting chapters here do provide the basics in a context of making a wellness program for a work environment. Each chapter was advised by an expert in the field so the advice is signal and accurate.
Like many Nolo books, here are many sidebars and boxes that provide additional resources on topics as well as success tales from business owners. The credentials of the advising experts are also listed at the beginning of each chapter.
Health and fitness are extremely vital and I’m a firm believer that preventing disease and keeping oneself fit will not only help people delight in their lives more, but be more pleased and more productive workers. Not to mention the lower cost of healthcare for medical problems that are preventable by living a healthier lifestyle. I place your hands together businesses that take an interest in helping their employees become healthier by implementing wellness programs. I reckon Bray’s book “Healthy Employees, Healthy Business” can help many businesses with encouraging employees to be healthier and starting programs to educate and help them with their efforts.
Reviewed by Alain Burrese, J.D., author of Hard-Won Wisdom From the Teach of Hard Knocks and the dvds: Hapkido Hoshinsul, Streetfighting Essentials, Hapkido Cane, the Lock On Joint Locking Essentials series and articles including a fixed column on negotiation for The Montana Lawyer. Alain Also wrote a series of articles called Lessons From The Apprentice.
Review by Lair Holzem for Healthy Employees, Healthy Business: Simple, Reasonably priced Ways to Promote Workplace Wellness
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I wanted to be interested, but I just couldn’t get into it. I wanted the book to convince me that this should be vital to me. It didn’t. I just couldn’t find enough relevance to my own life to draw me in.
The book appears to be a fine tome for someone already interested in wellness, and how (and why) to apply wellness principles to the workplace, but that doesn’t describe me.
I’m not vacant to give it a low rating just because it couldn’t spark anything for me, but I also can’t give it the highest rating because it could have, but didn’t spark that interest even though I was interested enough to pick it up in the first place.
So if you’re interested in wellness, don’t let my luke-warm review stop you from getting this book. But if you’re looking for something to spark your interest in this topic, I’m not convinced that this book can do it for you.
Review by Jared Castle for Healthy Employees, Healthy Business: Simple, Reasonably priced Ways to Promote Workplace Wellness
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I’m a fixed Amazon reviewer of Nolo books and find most to be a fantastic starting point for learning a new topic. “Healthy Employees, Healthy Business” is another solid addendum to the publisher’s line. This is a initiation-from-scratch guide that best targets small, growing businesses by as long as the “how to” steps but, more significantly, the “why you should” advice. My caveat with Nolo books is that you should not substitute the book for face-to-face legal advice.
Does your company already have a wellness program? Well, mine does. Yet, I shared this book with employees who serve on the wellness program and together we found more tips and advice to add to our program. Simple, common-sense advice to impart with employees in any case if you have a formalized wellness program or not are in chapters 5-11: Healthy Eating & Nutrition; Fitness & Exercise; Lowering Stress Levels; Working Without Tobacco; Helping the Addicted Worker; Reducing Obesity; and Dealing With Chronic Illness.
The book comes with a CD that includes forms, documents and audio summaries (for those employees averse to conception). The forms include a wellness plot worksheet, a program waiver and release of liability, an interest survey and a food and exercise diary among others. Again, the book successfully aims to be a turn-key operation for small businesses.
In Chapter 6 “Fitness and Exercise” Dr. Robert Sallis sums it up best, “Engaging in 30 minutes of moderate exercise (like a brisk walk) every day is the single best thing you can do for your health and longevity. Exercise is medicine!”
A wellness program is a health care program, a mutual benefit for companies and employees. Rating: Four stars.