Here's an article about 10 companies such as Apple, Nike and AOL Time Warner who encourage their employees to meditate. These companies know that meditation helps employees reduce stress, refocus and increase productivity during their day. http://onlinemba.com/blog/10-big-companies-that-promote-employee-meditation

Chade-Meng Tan, one of Google's earliest engineers and who is now head of personal growth and called Google's Jolly Good Fellow, explains why emotional intelligence is so important for business success in his TED talk. He talks about how compassion enables a leader to be highly effective leader. He references Jim Collin's comprehensive study, documented in the book Good To [...]

I recently spoke with Russ Sabia, a Principal Consultant with The Table Group–a Patrick Lencioni company, and was inspired to share my vision and what I know to be true about the new corporate possibility. Healthy, productive and profitable companies require a strong, supportive, collaborative, and productive culture and an environment in which people enjoy working and feel valued. When [...]

Distractions are costly to any employer*. Typical distractions include social networking, e-mail, web surfing and conversations with co-workers. However, there is a more insidious distraction which causes additional expense to a company. The term "presenteeism" is often referred to as employees coming to work sick. These employees spread their germs throughout the office and are much less productive. Another form [...]

  Entrepreneurs have difficult jobs. The success of your company rests on your shoulders. You are responsible for profits, making strategic decisions about the direction of your company, and the livelihood of your employees. You must have both external focus on markets and customers and internal focus on employees, as well as making sure your vision is clear and company goals [...]

Low morale begets stress induced absenteeism. You've probably seen this in your company–morale is never consistent and during times of low morale, absences peak. Your employees are stressed and get sick more often. Your employees take "mental health" days. An issue of CCH Human Resources Management Ideas & Trends, a newsletter for HR professionals, reports a strong connection between morale, [...]

CBS reported workplace distractions cost employers over $10,000 per year, per employee. Employees are distracted by social networking, email, web surfing and conversations with co-workers. The study reports these distractions add up to an hour per day. For an employee earning $30 per hour, that is $10,375 per year. A company with 200 employees loses over $2,000,000 per year. The [...]

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We have been working with CaLLogix for over a year to reinforce their Wellness Initiative and help them achieve incredible results. Not only have they saved considerable time and expense as absenteeism and attrition has dropped, morale and employee performance has had a significant boost. Here are the results of their wellness initiative. 80% decrease in absenteeism 50% decrease in [...]

Researchers in Canada report a direct correlation between increased workplace stress and higher medical costs for companies. Even though this is a Canadian study, I believe it has relevance for the U.S. Jobs here are equally as stressful. PWC recently published an article stating that many people in the U.S. have delayed seeing a doctor the past few years for [...]