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Dr. Joel Bennett Interviewed on Manager Stress

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Dr. Joel Bennett Interviewed on Manager Stress

This brief video can be a handy tool for any manager who has stress in their job (someone you know?). Dr. Joel Bennett gave the keynote lunch presentation last year to the Association of Washington Cities on the topic of Manager Stress. This short video captures key ideas from that...

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Getting Serious About Workplace Wellness

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Getting Serious About Workplace Wellness

Evidence-based consultation Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” Albert Einstein   Is it possible that the current state of workplace wellness has stalled?  Employers have been sold health promotion as a singular program, an individual commodity, even a SmartPhone "app." But studies show...

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Wellness that Lasts: Nudging the Culture of Your Worksite

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Archive recording available now on HPLive.org Healthy work cultures are not "built" as much as "nudged" over time. Nudge means gradual, intentional, peer-to-peer positive interaction and encouragement, group, leadership, and social health. We will explain how TA works, how to start using quick tools from TA, and three tenets of...

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Neuroplasticity, Tribal Resilience, and the Substrata of Wellness

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Neuroplasticity, Tribal Resilience, and the Substrata of Wellness

Been doing more reading on resilience and neuroplasticity and its seems that resilience, specifically LEARNING how to BOTH overcome and thrive from stress, is an essential part of well-being. Two things seem to be at work. First, while it is difficult to maintain a healthy habit and a positive mood state...

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The "We" in Wellness: Workplace Health Promotion as a Positive Force for Health in Society

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Chapter to appear Winter/Spring (2013) "The "We" in Wellness: Workplace Health Promotion as a Positive Force for Health in Society" (Joel B. Bennett & Lois E. Tetrick) in the new book (http://www.siop.org/Store/Files/243.pdf)  Using Industrial-Organizational Psychology for the Greater Good Helping Those Who Help Others Edited by Julie B. Olson-Buchanan, Laura...

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Healthy Leadership: Opportunities for Research, Practice, and Research-to-Practice

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Healthy Leadership: Opportunities for Research, Practice, and Research-to-Practice.  Healthy leadership is a core construct within related fields of applied psychology, organizational development and workplace health promotion. Yet, there is a need to bring a more well-designed, research-to-practice, approach that facilitates partnership between researchers and practitioners. While several areas of research...

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Dr. Joel Bennett Interviewed on Manager Stress

Getting Serious About Workplace Wellness

Wellness that Lasts: Nudging the Culture of Your Worksite

Neuroplasticity, Tribal Resilience, and the Substrata of Wellness

The "We" in Wellness: Workplace Health Promotion as a Positive Force for Health in Society

Healthy Leadership: Opportunities for Research, Practice, and Research-to-Practice

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