Employee Training: A Strategic Benefit for Employees & Employers

Since its inception in 2012 stress.health.business has showcased numerous examples of companies making strategic choices which benefit both employees and profits. These companies do not view the workplace as a zero sum game where the needs of employers are competing...

Developing Guidelines for Family Screen Time

Has your family been trying to figure out some rules to govern screen time? If so, you are not alone. Finding the correct formula for limiting the use of electronic devices in order to improve the quality of personal interactions and communication has become a...

The Importance of Tailoring Harassment Training to an Organization’s Workforce

It is critically important for organizations to be certain that their employees fully understand the definition and risks of harassment in the workplace. A well-designed training program can have a positive impact on reducing the types of misunderstandings and...

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Frontline Managers, People Skills & EAPs: A Winning Formula for Improving Employee Engagement

Leadership, Productivity, Training

What happens when you have a winning product and/or business strategy but your managers have poor people skills? Lost opportunity is what happens. Failure to capitalize is what happens. Your business loses is what happens. Even the best business strategies do not...

Faking It: An Essential Management Competency

Leadership, Motivation, Training

In our culture, which extols the merits of authenticity and transparency in everything from TED talks about leadership to advertisements for our food, it may seem a bit contrarian to make a case for the virtues of faking it. But I’d like to try. Suppose you are the...

Memory, Motivation & Wellness

EAP, Health & Wellness, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Stress, Training, Work-Life

We are forgetful creatures. I’m not referring to the “senior moment” variety of forgetfulness. I’m talking about the habitual forgetting that takes place in the midst of everyday life challenges and stresses, when we “forget” to make those choices that we know will...

Seven Resolutions Worth Keeping in 2015

Training

If someone foolishly launched into a litany of excuses and rationalizations around my former colleague Nancy, she loved to proclaim: “If wishes were dishes, the whole world would be a kitchen.” Invariably, she would follow up with an emphatic and melodic: “Woulda!...

Preventive EAP

EAP, Leadership, Productivity, Stress, Training

Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) provide organizations and their employees an array of counseling and supportive services to address the negative effects of workplace stress. This is an extremely important mission, and EAPs are uniquely positioned to deliver on...

What Organizations Could Learn from Employee CAT Scans

Motivation, Productivity, Training

Advances in brain imaging technologies are extending the reach of scientific comprehension into the complex and fascinating recesses of human motivation. By studying detailed pictures of the brain’s responses to different situations neuroscientists are changing our...

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