Managers, supervisors and wellness committee members can play important roles in fostering healthier and more productive cultural environments. This video and online training help organizational leaders to support health and wellness initiatives. The resources teach four primary leadership responsibilities:

1. Sharing the wellness vision

2. Serving as a role model

3. Aligning cultural touch points

4. Monitoring and Celebrating success

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Wellness Leadership: Creating Supportive Environments for Healthier and More Productive Employees 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. Copies of the book can be ordered online. Bulk rate discounts and other ordering options are available.

The Online Wellness Leadership Training focuses on leadership responsibilities within a worksite context and is geared to executives, managers, supervisors, health promotion professionals and members of health and wellness committees. However, the wellness leadership functions are applicable to a wide array of settings including businesses, schools, community organizations and government agencies.

Participants learn how to share the health and productivity vision including the overall business case, the health benefits and how employees can participate. Organizational leaders also learn how to become more effective role models for lifestyle improvement. In addition, the participants develop strategies for aligning formal and informal cultural touch points (such as rewards, communication and training) to create a supportive work environment. The training also helps leaders develop a plan for tracking the health and productivity initiative’s impact and for celebrating success. This is an applied training. The course includes reading, video testimonials and expert feedback on written assignments. Participants email reports about their leadership efforts for feedback. Each of the six online course units takes approximately 45 minutes to complete. The training cost is $95 per participant. Group enrollment discounts are available.

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The Wellness Leadership Video and Resource Guide was created in conjunction with the Wellness Councils of America and features testimonials from top executives, managers and supervisors at Johnson & Johnson, Seagate Technologies, Union Pacific Railroad, John Alden Life Insurance, Central State Indemnity, the University of Vermont and Buffett, Taylor & Associates. This exciting video offers specific leadership strategies and begins a dialogue about the appropriate role of management in creating healthier and more productive cultures. The Wellness Leadership video is 14 minutes and comes with discussion questions suitable for a management workshop. The video and resource guide are $95 plus $8 shipping and handling.

A Special Report from the Wellness Councils of America further explains the framework used in the Wellness Leadership video.