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The Complete Guide to Wellness in the Workplace Workshops in Print & CD-ROM The Complete Guide to Wellness is the culmination of over 20 years of applied research in over 100 companies. The materials in this book were first tested in hospital settings under physician supervision and were later implemented in companies with leading behavioral psychologists and organizational change experts. The training modules contained in this book have been used successfully by hundreds of thousands of employees in companies such as AT&T, Southwestern Bell, and Ford Motor Company. The results from these interventions have been published in numerous journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association. This resource incorporates recent findings from behavioral medicine, cultural medicine, organizational behavior, and medical research. The Complete Guide to Wellness includes all the reproducible materials you need to run either a self-study or group training program on any of the topics covered. The Lifestyles Possibilities Assessment is a full-screen assessment that correlates to the workshop, so you know which topic is the most important to start with. Section I: Assessment Lifestyle Possibilities: Orientation Section II: Risk Reduction—Keeping the Killers from Precluding Your Possibilities Stop Smoking Weight Control Cholesterol Reduction Blood Pressure Control Stress Management Present-Moment Thinking Low-Back Care Section III: Health Enhancement—Optimizing Your Possibilities Fitness Primer Nutrition Interpersonal Communication Self-Esteem Managing Change Creative Thinking Job Satisfaction A Healthy Home  Connectedness. 600 reproducible pages/ 3-ring binder/ $199.95

50 Activities for Developing Emotional Intelligence - Best Seller Emotional Intelligence explains why, despite equal intellectual capacity, training, or experience, some people excel while others of the same caliber lag behind. Certain competencies are found repeatedly in high performers at all levels, from customer service representatives to CEOs. As trainers we must find ways to build these talents labeled EQ (emotional intelligence quotient). The 50 reproducible activities in this resource book focus on developing the following set of talents: self-awareness and control, empathy, social expertness, personal influence, and mastery of vision. Selected Contents Emotional Intelligence — What Is It? A Coach’s / Trainer’s Guide to Helping Leaders Improve EQ How to Use This Guide Guide to the 50 EQ Activities Suggested Training Formats Action / Reaction Visions Apply to People Too Advice from the Pros Steps for Growth More Reflections 50 Activities for Developing Emotional Intelligence Code: HR50 $139.95

Stress Management Skill-Building Booklets Not enough time . . . No budget . . . Too many people to train. No more excuses! Use these Skill-Building Booklets to improve your employee’s performance on 32 important competencies. Simple but complete. Each Booklet provides an individual with a thorough overview, techniques, and methods to improve in each competency. The skills learned by the individual can be actualized through use of a unique application template that is included with each Booklet. Train your employees for $5 or less per person. Stress Management Skill-Building Booklets come in packs of 10 for $49.95

Emotional Intelligent Skill-Building Booklets Not enough time . . . No budget . . . Too many people to train. No more excuses! Use these Skill-Building Booklets to improve your employee’s performance on 32 important competencies. Simple but complete. Each Booklet provides an individual with a thorough overview, techniques, and methods to improve in each competency. The skills learned by the individual can be actualized through use of a unique application template that is included with each Booklet. Train your employees for $5 or less per person. Emotional Intelligent Skill-Building Booklets come in packs of 10 for $49.95

Are you working more now but enjoying it less? Take Back Your Time! Millions of Americans are overworked, over-scheduled and just plain stressed out. We're putting in longer hours on the job now than we did in the 1950s, despite promises of a coming age of leisure before the year 2000. In fact, we're working more than medieval peasants did, and more than the citizens of any other industrial country. On average, we work nearly nine full weeks (350 hours) LONGER per year than our peers in Western Europe do. Working Americans average a little over two weeks of vacation per year, while Europeans average five to six weeks. OVERWORK HURTS ALL OF US IN DIFFERENT WAYS Overwork threatens our health. It leads to fatigue, accidents and injuries. It reduces time for exercise and encourages consumption of calorie-laden fast foods. Job stress and burnout costs our economy more than $200 billion a year. Overwork threatens our marriages, families and relationships as we find less time for each other, less time to care for our children and elders, less time to just hang out. It weakens our communities. We have less time to know our neighbors, supervise our young people, and volunteer. It reduces employment as fewer people are hired and then required to work longer hours, or are hired for poor part-time jobs without benefits. It leaves us little time for ourselves, for self-development, or for spiritual growth. TAKE BACK YOUR TIME DAY IS NOT ANTI-WORK Useful and creative work is essential to happiness. But American life has gotten way out of balance. Producing and consuming more have become the single-minded obsession of the American economy, while other values -- strong families and communities, good health, active citizenship and social justice, time for nature and the soul -- are increasingly neglected. Take Back Your Time Day is a project of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy at Cornell University. It is also an initiative of The Simplicity Forum. Thank God It’s Monday newsletter supports this initiative and finds it complementary to its own initiative of Four Days Vacation For All. Read below.

Join Our National Campaign: Four Weeks Vacation For All to Wipe Out Unemployment I invite you to join our national Four Weeks Vacation For All campaign to wipe out unemployment. Here is how it started: In the August 20, 2003 issue of our TGIM newsletter (register below to receive it free), I used the fact of President Bush taking a month-long vacation to call for extending the same privilege to all working Americans. Nine days later, an article by Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor, calling for a federal law mandating four weeks vacation for all, appeared at the TomPaine.com website. I hope President Bush enjoyed his month-long vacation in the summer of 2003 in his Texas ranch. Some in the media have criticized him for taking such a long vacation while the country was still at war against terrorism and Americans are killed almost daily in Iraq. I’m not one of those who criticize the President for that. In fact, I’m all for long vacations as long as every working person gets them. But many working Americans get only two weeks off per year! Is this fair? What’s even worse is the fact that in many organizations managers and executives get four weeks, while union members, secretaries, and other low-paid staff get only two! But this kind of system creates a layer of an upper class of privileged managers on top of a layer of a second-class workers. No wonder relations between the two are often filled with conflict and distrust. So I salute President Bush for taking a month long vacation, and ask him to use the bully-pulpit power of the office of the presidency to ask all American organizations to do the right thing for their employees: give everybody a four week vacation. Workers in most European, Canadian, and Australian organizations enjoy that. Our American President enjoys that. Most top executives and managers enjoy that. It’s time working Americans do. The gains in better labor relations, more positive employee attitude, higher morale, better work culture, and more jobs for the unemployed will more than make up for the loss of the two weeks of work. Here is how this initiative can wipe out unemployment: Since two extra weeks of vacation means a loss of about 4% of work-time, most organizations will be forced to make up for this by hiring more staff, about 4% more. Since unemployment is about 6%, this can reduce unemployment to about 2%, which is considered by some standards as full employment. Nine days after my article appeared in our August 20 issue of TGIM, an article by Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor, appeared in the August 29 issue of TomPaine.com, with the headline, "Four Weeks Vacation For All." I'm delighted that the former secretary has come to the same conclusion about the fairness and benefits of this idea. Reich proposes: "a federal law requiring that every company in America give every employee at least four weeks paid vacation per year." Reich reminds us that "it's the law in Europe," and says, "a guarantee of four week's paid vacation here may make American workers happier and hence even more productive." I invite you to spread this message to create a momentum for a "Four Weeks Vacation For All" to give people more time off and wipe out unemployment at the same time. Use the “Send Page to Friend” link below to email this page to all your friends asking them to join the campaign. Thank you. (c) 2003, Francois Basili, Communicationideas.com

50 Activities for Managing Stress Activities cover Understanding stress Types of stress Stress and performance Sources of stress Managing stress Training Objectives Identify the various forms of stress Decide which types of people may be susceptible to stress Examine the different sources of stress and the impact on people and their performance Examine the kinds of coping strategies that individuals and groups use and how these strategies affect performance 50 Activities for Managing Stress/ $139.95

Personal Stress and Well-Being Profile Understanding the nature of stress at a detailed level is the basis upon which we can start to manage it effectively. The Personal Stress and Well-being Assessment provides a simple but thorough process by which we can better understand our own stress handling skills. This self-scoring personal stress tool has been designed to provide a useful template for an individual to rate themselves in a number of competency areas that are considered to be relevant to the existence of stress and personal well-being. The Facilitator's Guide includes steps for administration, interpretation, and coaching suggestions. The Package comes with One Facilitator's Guide plus one Assessment Profile $49.95 A Set of 5 Additional Personal Stress Profiles for 5 users $39.75

Preventing and Managing Stress Training Video- Stanford University Health Series Program highlights: Unexpected symptoms of chronic stress. Good stress vs. bad stress. Three techniques to manage stress (avoidance, short-circuiting, mitigation) with examples of when to use each. Stress. Most people feel this at some point during the day--either on the road, or on the job. In small amounts, stress can help you focus your attention and improve your performance. But too much stress, too often, can undermine your performance and damage your health. Stress also undermines your company's bottom line, by increasing absenteeism and decreasing productivity. But you can do something about it. In this new Stanford video program, you will learn from experts about the causes of stress and proven ways to lessen its negative impacts. Use this video and accompanying guidebook to optimize your company's overall stress levels--and gain valuable insights to enhance your own personal well-being. Video: 22 minutes (2001)/ Includes 21-page guidebook./ Produced in association with Stanford University Media Solutions. Purchase for $89.00

Preventing Burnout in Your Organization Video Featuring: Christina Maslach, Professor, University of California at Berkeley Program Highlights: It's not just the person-it's the job (and the person). Why heavy workloads aren't always the cause of burnout. How to increase the positives and build job engagement. What can be done about burnout and its high costs both to the employee and the organization? Professor Maslach describes six contributing factors that increase the risk of burnout, and the human toll it takes on individuals and job performance. Dr. Maslach then suggests intervention strategies that turn the multidimensional syndromes of exhaustion, cynicism and ineffectiveness into energy, involvement and achievement. Christina Maslach, Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, is one of the pioneering researchers on job burnout, and is the creator of "The Maslach Burnout Inventory," the most widely used research measure in the field. She holds an AB, magna cum laude, in Social Relations from Harvard-Radcliffe College, and a PhD in Psychology from Stanford University. Dr. Maslach is the author of The Truth About Burnout. Video type: VHS / Length: 43 mins./(2001) $95.00

On the Edge2: Managing High Risk Situations (including violence in the workplace) On the Edge 2.0 presents realistic scenarios in which employees face volatile and potentially violent situations in the workplace. Suggested solutions are offered for appropriate resolutions, as well as describing preventive actions that could have been taken. It takes more than just awareness and policies to prohibit violence at work. Your employees and leaders must be able to recognize and contain situations before they escalate into violent events. This exciting new video presents nine realistic scenarios in which employees face volatile and potentially violent situations in the workplace and gives participants an opportunity to discuss appropriate resolutions, as well as any preventative actions which could already have been taken. This powerful discussion-starting film creates opportunities for your participants to learn and employ skills to prevent violence from occurring in your workplace. Package Includes: 15 minute video / Leader's Guide, CD, and 5 Participant Workbooks/ Code: HR/OE2/ $695.00 Additional workbooks are sold in packs of 3 for $29.95

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff.. and It’s all small stuff - Try This Exercise Today In his book with same title, author Richard Carlson, PH.D. suggests an exercise that he describes as the most helpful for self-improvement. I find it helpful for stress management as well. He recommends that you, "Imagine that Everyone Is Enlightened Except You." "As the title suggests, the idea is to imagine that everyone you know and everyone you meet is perfectly enlightened. That is, everyone except you! The people you meet are all here to teach you something. Perhaps the obnoxious driver or disrespectful teenager is here to teach you about patience, the punk rocker might be here to teach you to be less judgmental. Your job is to try to determine what the people in your life are trying to teach you. You'll find that if you do this, you’ll be far less annoyed, bothered, and frustrated by the actions and imperfections of other people. Often, once you discover what someone is trying to teach you, it's easier to let go of your frustration. All you're doing is changing your perception from “Why are they doing this?" to "What are they trying to teach me?" Take a look around today at all the enlightened people."

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