Scott Foster

The top promising trends we’re seeing when it comes to corporate health and wellness.

Educating employers about the value of wellness programs and exchanging best practices with wellness providers, hospital systems and health insurers were two first-year goals of the fledgling Michigan Wellness Counci.

Employee engagement is consistently rated one of the top wellness program challenges. For worksite wellness programs to be effective, the vast majority of your employees need to participate. Otherwise, non-participants will develop health conditions faster than those who do participate. To receive optimal results from your company’s wellness program, you need to have a participation . . .

The American philosopher Abraham Kaplan once said, “Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” The famous law of the hammer metaphor recommends a broad approach, and multiple tools, for more effective problem-solving. The same philosophy applies to improving health care costs and conditions. Read the full . . .

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes,” the insightful and prolific writer Oscar Wilde once said. While Wilde was personally influenced by the important issues of his time when he said these famous nine words, the phrase still rings true today – in both life and business. In business, one of these areas . . .

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