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Healthy Habits, Helpful Friends: How to Effectively Support Wellness
Lifestyle Goals
(paperback and audio book)
This is a book teaches skills for effective peer support for
wellness goals. It empowers
coworkers, family and friends to provide a full range of physical and
emotional assistance needed to achieve difficult wellness goals such as
losing weight, getting fit, quitting smoking, reducing stress, following
medical advice and enjoying the good life. Solid advice, revealing self-tests, a step-by-step approach
and checklists take the guesswork out of peer support. The book also
serves as a text for
Wellness
Mentor Training. Copies of the book can be
ordered online.
Contact us to order the audio book and for information about
volume discounts. 149 pages.
Wellness Leadership:
Creating Supportive Environments for Healthier and More Productive
Employees (paperback and audio
book)
Managers need to understand their role in supporting
employee wellness. This book empowers
managers, wellness committee members and other wellness champions to
create a workplace culture that supports healthy lifestyles. Such a
culture of health saves lives, cuts medical costs, enhances
productivity, improves morale and adds new vitality to work groups. Wellness Leadership explains how to create a shared wellness vision,
serve as an effective role model, align cultural influences and
monitor/celebrate success. Revealing self-tests,
a culture survey, information about legal issues, guidelines for
establishing wellness committees, leadership stories
and checklists take the guesswork out of creating a culture of health. The book also
serves as a text for
Wellness
Leadership Training. Copies of the book can be
ordered online
directly from the printer.
Contact us to order the audio book and for information about
volume discounts. 147 pages.
Beat the System: A Way
to Create More Human Environments
Ever wonder how culture determines nearly
every aspect of the human condition? Not only does this book reveal the power of
culture, but it also offers a practical, systematic approach to creating
supportive community and organizational cultures. Beat the
System provides a cultural analysis of a broad range of
concerns from environmental care, to violence, to education, to the
vitality of families. This book reveals how cultural obstacles prevent us from
achieving lasting and desired change. Five case studies illustrate the Normative
Systems Culture Change Process as it has been applied to juvenile delinquency,
migrancy, litter and bureaucracy. Appendices include a listing of more than 100
culture change project applications as well as a "Cultural Norm Indicator
for Families" and a "Cultural Norm Indicator for Organizations."
294 pages.
Collegefields: From Delinquency
to Freedom
This is the story of the first Normative
Systems Culture Change project. It examines the problems of delinquent
youth and explains an award-winning program designed to teach young
people to manage their cultural environments. 176 pages.
Lifegain:
The
Exciting New Program that Will Change Your Health and Your Life
Lifegain offers
its readers a culture- based process for achieving healthier and more
productive lifestyles. Lifegain provides an overview of the
wellness concept and the role of culture in shaping health behavior.
Chapters include cultural assessments and action plans for physical
fitness, smoking cessation, healthy eating, weight management, alcohol
use, accident prevention, stress management and quality relationships.
The final chapter offers an outline for designing a health promotion
program for a worksite or for an entire community. The appendix features
a bibliography of suggested health and wellness resource books. 248
pages.
The
Organizational Unconscious: Creating the Corporate Culture You Want
and Need
A thorough and practical guide to culture
change in organizational settings. The Organizational Unconscious
features chapters on cultural analysis, open organizations, teamwork,
small group development, the role of leadership, organizational ethics,
burnout prevention and absenteeism. Case studies are provided for health
care settings, manufacturing facilities, distribution facilities and
retail outlets. The Organizational Unconscious also describes two
successful community service projects dedicated to litter reduction and
to creating healthier communities. The appendices include a Cultural
Norm Indicator for Organizations, a Cultural Norm Indicator for
Leadership and an Organizational Ethics Questionnaire. 229 pages.
The Quiet Revolution: The Story
of a Small Miracle in American Life
This is the true story of how the Coca-Cola
Company and its employees at Minute Maid transformed a deadly and
abusive culture of failure into a vibrant and productive partnership.
This story tells how racism and neglect can be successfully challenged
through organizational commitment, creativity and a systematic approach
to culture change. 283 pages.
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