by Joe Sherwood | May 1, 2014 | Engaging Leader
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Ideas are the currency of the 21st century. You can have brilliant ideas—truly revolutionary ideas—but if you cannot persuade others to act, those ideas don’t matter. In 2006, the famous TED conference began streaming 18-minute...
by Joe Sherwood | Apr 30, 2014 | Workforce Health Engagement™
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Earlier this year, the non-profit research group RAND Corporation released yet another study questioning the return on investment (ROI) of workplace wellness. RAND’s new study found that wellness can improve employee health and...
by Joe Sherwood | Apr 29, 2014 | Workforce Health Engagement™
Podcast: Play in new window | Download One of today’s hottest trends in workforce health engagement is gamification. Gamification is the use of tactics inspired by games — especially video games — to engage people. Think about what makes video games so...
by Joe Sherwood | Apr 28, 2014 | Workforce Health Engagement™
Podcast: Play in new window | Download As we discussed back in episode 4, in our interview with epidemiologist Tom Wilson, it’s a good idea to not have blind faith in wellness vendors, but to have a healthy dose of skepticism. For one thing, there are probably leaders...
by Joe Sherwood | Apr 25, 2014 | Workforce Health Engagement™
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Many companies are spending huge amounts of health care dollars paying for treatment of medical conditions caused primarily by poor food choices. Then they spend money on top of that for wellness programs to encourage employees...