Wellness Leadership: Creating Supportive Environments For Healthier And More Productive Employees

By Judd Allen

Wellness Leadership 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941703231
• ISBN13: 9780941703239
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Healthyculture.com
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

Culture Change Is Key to Sustainable Wellness Efforts

Wellness Leadership provides great insight into the role and power of workplace culture, especially as it relates to the implementation and management of successful employee wellness efforts. Judd Allen understands well the intricacies of both organizational issues and health improvement activities. He has continued the legacy of the true pioneer in the space, Dr. Robert Allen, and has leveraged the use of years of experience and observation, along with the mounting body of published data about workplace wellness. This book is required reading for my executive team.

Wellness and Leadership Together - A First

Judd Allen is a nationally recognized expert in the area of creating healthy organizational cultures. In this book, Dr. Allen looks specifically at the role leadership plays in creating and maintaining a healthy organizational culture. Wellness Leadership looks at leadership and wellness from two different perspectives: * The perspective of managers at all levels * The perspective of the wellness professional Wellness Leadership identifies four broad responsibilities leaders can use to enhance organizational health and wellness. They are identified as: 1. Sharing the wellness vision 2. Serving as a role model 3. Aligning cultural touch points 4. Monitoring and celebrating success A chapter in the book is devoted to each one of these four responsibilities. In addition, the book contains a chapter on engagement which addresses the issues of participation, wellness committees and the role of the wellness professional. If you are a wellness professional or someone charged with the responsibility for your organization's wellness program, this would be a good book for you to read and potentially have in your personal library.