A question for philosophers of the ages, and an increasingly important query for every CEO of every business throughout America: What is knowledge, and how do companies use it?Rather, what happens...
The best ideas are often the most simple. This is true in the case of Nilofer Merchant, a Silicon Valley business innovator, whose
If you have an idea for a wellness product but no idea how to make it a reality, you're not alone. People have great ideas every day. A tiny percentage makes it to consumers. Going from concept to mar...
We began the Labor-Management Healthcare Fund (LMHF) wellness program about four years ago. Our goal was to incorporate various retreats focused on different wellness initiatives; but we found few fac...
Corporate Wellness Magazine is proud to honor this year's Corporate Wellness Champions. These are wellness professionals who have shown a focus and dedication to making employees healthier and happier...
The two most energizing - or exhausting - words concerning corporate wellness are Project Management.The term itself is quite expansive: It can be as ambitious or modest as an exe...
Corporate wellness is, as I never fail to remind readers, an exercise in education.It is an effort to inform workers about issues of critical importance, topics rife with innovation and impressive...
Corporate wellness is, at its essence, a term that encapsulates the promotion of good health and the distribution of accurate information.The latter is critical in a workplace, where, because of t...
Tens of thousands of troops have returned to the U.S. in the past several years after serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. As Veterans Day approaches, it's a good time for employers to reflect ...
Financial stress could be an invisible shackle hampering the productivity of your employees.Stacks of research clearly show that happy, stress-free employees are the most productive. It is in an e...
There is so much that you can learn from a kindergarten classroom that applies to workplace wellness. Art activities teach us to express ourselves. Naptime teaches us to take care of ourselves. Sharin...
With the New Year ahead, many smokers are going to make ditching the nasty habit of smoking a resolution as they hope for a healthier year ahead, and that's more than great - it's life changing!As...
For years we have been told, "Make small changes in your diet," and,
"Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss." Lee Iacocca
Americans spend approximately half of their waking hours at work. While employers may suggest that the majority of these individuals are healthy, the data indicates otherwise. These "healthy" indi...
The use of financial incentives to encourage employee participation in health and wellness programs has grown steadily in recent years, and is now the norm. Included in this year's Towers Watson/Natio...
Let's start this discussion with a few questions. When do you listen to what others have to say? At what point do you disengage your attention? What type of communication is most effective and captiva...
The success of a wellness program, in terms of changed behavior and the bottom line, hinges on integrating all planning, activities and efforts into one vibrant, measurable i...
Most readers will find it hard to believe that a vast majority of employers are costing
In the quest for creating a culture of wellness in the workplace, it is imperative that senior level management take the lead. From an early age, we are conditioned to foll...
Ponder these questions for a moment:
Corporate wellness and personal wellness are inseparable just as health insurance and life insurance are the same: Each complements the other, further...
Corporate wellness is often, as a matter of physical location and the ready accessibility to doctors and nurses, a critical part of the success of urban hospitals.That is, companies with offices w...
Of the many things that make corporate wellness a priority, few are as critical as the need for transparency and unbiased reporting.That is, if companies seek to educate employees about the respec...
A recent article in Internet Retailer notes that US consumers will make $18.2 billion in purchases on their smart phones this year, an increase of 143% over 2011. Currently, 58% of Americans own a sm...
Corporate wellness is both a philosophy and a summons to action.Concerning the latter, and the manner in which so much private information migrates from paper to "the cloud," as distant (in theory...
One of the many things corporate wellness should encourage is a new definition of retirement.This concept of wellness may originate in the workplace, but it extends to employees who are part of th...
The discussion about corporate wellness is often one of initiatives: Generously sponsored walks, runs, conferences and attempts to increase awareness about a specific individual, who may also be the b...
Online learning is an interactive experience, a dynamic way to improve personal health and corporate wellness.It is this concept of a global classroom, expansive in its material and exceptional in...
As medicine becomes more complex, and as some novelists become secular sages, heralding the arrival of their writings-made-real - in this world of quantum mechanics, mathematical biology, nanotechnolo...
Healthcare is a $2.8 trillion a year industry in the United States, which is the highest spend per country in the world, but the U.S. is by no means the healthiest. In order to create a healthier nati...
Science has long documented the toll that negative emotions such as anxiety, fear and sadness have on our minds and bodies. Recent evidence, however, highlights the previously under appreciated benefi...
Healthcare expenditure in the U.S. in 2014 is forecasted to be $3.8 trillion. Despite this staggering sum, three in every four Americans will die prematurely from a chronic disease - conditions that a...
A firm's culture takes time and energy to cultivate and works best when it comes from the inside out. The book Outside In in which Manning and Bodine dis...
What is something small, medium, large businesses and every single human being on this earth have in common, and need to be aware of and concerned about? Stress!We all experience it because it's ...
Note to reader: This article is based on information from a Frost & Sullivan economic analysis, "Smart Prevention-Healthcare Cost Savings Resulting from the Targeted Use of Dietary Supplements...
Not long ago, the thought of bringing meditation into a corporate environment would have seemed ridiculous. But these days, meditation has gone mainstream. Given the high costs of stress, and the prov...
In order to build a culture of wellness in an organization, it's important to be clear about what wellness means, the goals of the wellness program, what the program's components are, and how the prog...
Worksite clinics are increasing in popularity, and no longer limited to Fortune 500 companies. Depending on the design...
With rising rates of cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes, come higher healthcare costs for employers. As a result, corporate wellness services have become a $2 billion industry[i]. Co...
Rising healthcare premiums, high claims rates, poor benefit offerings. All of these factors can spell trouble for a small company trying to maintain strong participation in its benefit plans. To targe...
We had you going there for a second didn't we?The Employer Healthcare &...
Principles apply across condition. One principle for any business is that it is easier to adapt an existing successful business model than to reinvent the wheel and hope it turns out as well as the th...
The success of a wellness program links directly to the level of engagement and participation of the employee population. For years, the debate has raged over how to drive greater utilization by using...
Over the last twenty years, ergonomists and safety professionals
Employers know wellness coaching is a leading solution for cost savings and risk reduction. Not only can it affect long-term gains for the employer, but also it can cre...
Is there a more buzz-worthy topic in corporate America right now other than employee wellness? If another subject is being tossed around more frequently, I'm certainly not aware of it. There has never...
There aren't many companies that couldn't use an extra million dollars. If you run a company with a thousand employees, that's how much you could be saving by instituting a corporate wellness program ...
For years, most corporate wellness programs have done little more than "look good" as an added benefit on paper. Health culture within companies has gone neglected, with associated programs given litt...
