Justifying health promotion in dollars-and-cents terms

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Employee wellness programs often go no further than a few seminars to reduce smoking, stress or high blood pressure. This is because the goals and problem areas of the wellness program are never clearly focused, and because the dollar and cents value of a program is never demonstrated to management. The proponents of employee wellness programs must be able to show the costs to the company in medical costs and productivity losses that could be prevented by a less expensive health promotion program. This can be accomplished by gathering claims data from the organization's insurer, and tabulating the expenses of the organization that were incurred by preventable illnesses.

Wellness programs

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Meetings with success

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Poorly run business meetings waste time, deflate morale and are expensive. Although business meetings cost companies the time of several well-paid employees for two to four hours each week and are the most costly form of corporate communication, most companies have no guidelines for holding meetings. By setting guidelines, a company can make the business meeting a profitable venture. Guidelines include having a definite objective and purpose for each meeting, preparing an agenda and following it through, and distributing minutes of the meeting to participants soon after each meeting.

Meetings

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Benjamin Franklin on writing well

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The writing techniques employed by Benjamin Franklin are presented for emulation by contemporary business communicators. According to his Autobiography, Franklin learned to write by rewriting the essays in a popular magazine of his era, by constantly working to improve his own vocabulary as he read, and by using simple words and phrases in his writing so as not to obscure meaning. When writing to persuade, Franklin believed in using suggestion rather than assertion. He attributed much of his success in business and government service to his ability to write well.

Usage, Authorship, Writing, Report writing, Franklin, Benjamin (Pseudonym of Jaroslav Hasek)

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