Today’s Top Picks

According to attendee evaluations and other feedback, these are the current top picks!   FYI, All webinars are free.  One hour or longer live & archived webinars are CHES and ACSM continuing education eligible! Check out our FAQ page for details and rates!

• Cyndy Nayer and John Riedel, Leveraging Health: A Primer for Health Promotion Practitioners using Value-Based Designs – 01046

  Cyndy Nayer and John E. Riedel present on Leveraging Health: A Primer for Health Promotion Practitioners using Value-Based Designs. The questions that every employer and plan sponsor, every health plan and benefits manager should be asking must reframe the question: How much health, instead of healthcare, are we buying? How much could we buy with [...]

• Engagement: The Key to a Culture of Well-Being with Dr. Rosie Ward – 01052

  Topic: How can worksite health promotion translate into organizational effectiveness? By broadening the scope to create a culture of well-being, safety and employee engagement. High performing organizations recognize the value of their human capital and invest in their employees to build on their strengths. Typical approaches to wellness programs are short-sighted and not enough to [...]

• Intrinsic: The Key to Sustainable Change with Dr. Rosie Ward – 01053

  Topic: Worksite Wellness has been designed around incentives to drive participation. But what if we’ve gotten it wrong? Participation and engagement are not the same; engagement is what is critical to long-term success and stems from intrinsic motivation, not incentives. Research shows that incentives and extrinsic rewards at best result in short-term compliance; at worst [...]

• John Weaver, Psy.D. Bringing the Science of Happiness to Work – 01038

  Psychologist and author John Weaver, Psy.D. of the Healthy Thinking Initiative will speak on Binging the Science of Happiness to Work. Mental and emotional wellness are key components to overall health. Training in the skills that foster life satisfaction and job satisfaction are associated with better health, higher productivity, and lower absenteeism in the workplace. [...]

• MCHES EDO with Melissa Rehrig – 01056

  Topic: This presentation will include information on the Master Certified Health Education Specialist, MCHES.  The process for the Experience Documentation Opportunity (EDO) that will open on October 15, 2010 will be discussed. Learning Objectives: Explain MCHES exam details, such as eligibility criteria, projected fees, and continuing education contact hours.   Explain the Experience Documentation Opportunity process [...]

• Michael Samuelson, Wellness and Primary Prevention: The Keystone to Health Care Transformation – 01047

  [stranger]It’s no secret that our current healthcare system does not work. Given an annual bite of $2.8 trillion in 2009, with spending on pace to hit $4.3 trillion by 2012, the U.S. healthcare treatment model is economically unsustainable. Fundamental to supporting the arch of healthcare reform’s solution mix is the need to address and correct the attitude [...]

• NuVal – Making Good Nutrition Easy, Dr. David Katz

  Topic: NuVal: http://www.nuval.com/ Fact panels, package labels, nutrition reports.  There has to be a better way to make decisions about the foods you eat.  Now there is: the NuVal™ Nutritional Scoring System. The NuVal System does the nutritional heavy lifting so you don’t have to.  Developed by an independent panel of nutrition and medical experts, [...]

• Steven Aldana: Moving the Needle by Maximizing Wellness Program Participation – 01019

  February 19, 2010 Steven Aldana speaks on Maximizing Wellness Program Participation. Watch FREE webinar below: About the presenter:  Steven Aldana Dr. Steven Aldana is one of the nation’s foremost experts on healthy living and worksite wellness.  During his more than 20 years in academia, Dr. Aldana authored over 70 scientific papers and 6 books on [...]

• Teresa Lovely, Worksite Wellness: Forming Powerful Partnerships – 01045

  Worksite wellness programs have become an accepted means for employers to address poor health and related costs. Employers are ready to address employee health issues and are seeking answers on what works and how to do it. They are most interested in neutral expert sources for this assistance that state governments and similar organizations can [...]

• The “WE” in Wellness – Dr. Joel Bennett – 01049

  This webinar provides a thorough overview of eight different practices that have demonstrated the importance of moving from the “I” in Illness to the “We” in Wellness. These practices include (1) work in social capital, (2) social networking (“Connected”), (3) group wellness activities/campaigns, (4) healthy culture initiatives, (5) team-based prevention training programs, (6) social support [...]

• Wisconsin Worksite Wellness Program with Jon Morgan, MS – 01054

  The presentation focuses on the practical application of the Wisconsin Worksite Wellness Resource Kit. The kit is a tool designed to assist worksites with implementing strategies that have been proven to be effective and walks you through the process of developing a worksite wellness program or expanding an existing wellness program. Learning Objectives: Learn about [...]