March 28, 2018 What’s the Big Idea? Day 2 of ASHP Conference: Beyond The Ususal Suspects I had the good fortune to attend David Hunnicutt’s Intensive Seminar training on healthy culture creation. This afternoon, I caught up with him to…
March 27, 2018 What’s The Big Idea? From the 2018 Art/Sci of Health Promotion Conference We all know what it’s like at conferences, with the usual suspects: keynotes, presentations, vendors, fresh ideas, rehash, and buffet breakfasts. So what’s new…
March 9, 2018 Squirrel We’re so distractible. Like the dog in that movie, UP, who couldn’t finish a sentence without seeing a squirrel out of the corner of…
February 21, 2018 In The Workplace, Giving Is Getting. Very good article from HBR below. But the take-home message is that you reap what you sow, and get what you give. Sound trite?…
February 19, 2018 The Beatings Will Continue … It may seem like semantics, but there really is a difference between “creating a healthy culture”, and “creating the conditions that lead to a…
January 3, 2018 Employee Attitudes, Mirrors, and Blame Assignment The attitudes and behavior of employees reflects the environment created for them to work in every day. However, when assessing a company culture, management…
December 4, 2017 Video: The Wellness X Factor Why is it? The very same program delivered in the very same way for two different companies, or two different sites within the SAME…
November 6, 2017 Five Reasons Employee Wellness Is Worth the Investment Nice article originally pubbed here, from Health.gov. As a number of companies – small and large, start-up to industry titan – offer workplace health…
October 30, 2017 Aristotle, and integrating wellness programs into a cafeteria setting I chose this Aristotle quote for a reason — see below. For us at MedWellness, we’re so grateful for our dining service partner, who…
August 31, 2017 An Essential Tension: Automation versus Personalization in Wellness Automation and personalization sound like opposites, but they don’t have to be mutually exclusive. And the landscape of their Venn Diagram overlap is an…