Engaging Leader

MAY 2, 2014

In episode 1, Jesse and his colleague Terry Sherwood defined workforce health engagement as improving the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees, their families, and organizational leaders to optimize health outcomes, control medical costs, and enhance workplace productivity.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 24, 2014

In episode 1, Jesse and his colleague Terry Sherwood defined workforce health engagement as improving the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees, their families, and organizational leaders to optimize health outcomes, control medical costs, and enhance workplace productivity.

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Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

And improving the engagement of hourly workers can decrease absenteeism and turnover costs, while improving productivity, customer satisfaction, and the overall culture of the organization. They are often people who directly impact customers, such as through customer service or making the products. And yet […].

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Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

With a national client base of health plans and employers covering lives in all 50 states, the company is the premier national provider of healthcare consumer engagement and cost transparency solutions, including Healthcare University, Targeted Engagement Alerts, Ways to Save Alerts and Cost Lookup.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 30, 2014

RAND’s new study found that wellness can improve employee health and reduce costs, if the employer strategically engages employees beyond industry-standard lifestyle management tactics. Earlier this year, the non-profit research group RAND Corporation released yet another study questioning the return on investment (ROI) of workplace wellness.

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Engaging Leader

MAY 8, 2014

as high as 70%, costing businesses more than $550 billion a year in lost productivity. Jim Donovan, consultant, speaker, and "happiness expert" offers workplace advice to employers and employees on how to make their work lives more fulfilling.

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Engaging Leader

JANUARY 16, 2015

This episode discusses how employers can better engage the sicker portion of their employees and family members to improve health and reduce costs. However, people with a chronic condition typically get care through a health system designed for acute care — fragmented, episodic care triggered by an adverse health event.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Resources Mentioned in This Episode Book: The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization Forbes article: How Being a Good Manager Can Make You a Bad Innovator Website: TheInnovatorsMethod.com Twitter: @Jeffrey_Dyer Subscription Links iTunes Stitcher RSS Your Feedback If you like our show, please rate us on iTunes.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 17, 2014

In this conversation, Jesse and Dr. Wilson discuss Dr. Wilson’s research on whether wellness and other health engagement strategies are making a positive difference on health outcomes, company costs, recruiting and retention, and more.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Today we’ll dig into the data behind this mega-trend, and talk about how you can use mobile to improve the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees and their families, to optimize health outcomes, control medical costs, and enhance workplace productivity.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 16, 2014

In this episode, Jesse and Rick discuss the latest trends regarding direct contracts, centers of excellence, and health care consumerism to help employees and their families make choices that optimize health outcomes and cost-effectiveness.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Price alone will not have a huge influence, but change in cost can be an effective tool when combined with other methods.) Make good behavior cheap and bad behavior expensive. Subsidize behaviors you want to encourage, and penalize behaviors you want to discourage. Develop support networks.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 28, 2014

Al Lewis claims that what he calls the “pry, poke, prod” model of corporate wellness leads to hyperdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment, which is dangerous for patients and drives up health care costs. Al Lewis is founder and President of the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International, Inc.

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Engaging Leader

MARCH 24, 2015

In doing so, it helps health plans around the globe (including its parent company Discovery Limited, South Africa’s largest health insurance company) save on health care costs. As described by National Public Radio, the Vitality Institute “finds ways to pay people to do healthful things” like eating more vegetables or exercising.

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Engaging Leader

JANUARY 26, 2016

The intention is that playing the game helps people rewire their brain to a mindset that is more collaborative, open, creative, and daring, so they not only sharpen their entrepreneurial skills but also experience an approach to business that maximizes benefit for everyone playing rather than just maximizing profit at all cost.

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Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In its 2012 national survey, Kaiser/HRET found only 52 percent of employers believed their wellness program was effective in reducing their company’s health care costs. However, a large percentage of employers don’t believe their wellness programs are working. That makes a huge difference in helping more people discover it.

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