Rest and work need to go hand in hand. You have to be able to work at rest so that rest enables you to work better

Our entire lives are not meant to be lived at rush speed. We can't work ceaselessly. No human being can go at top speed all the time. Don't expect someone to deliver you good results when they're stressed, exhausted or worn out. That's why it's so important to take at least 1 out of 7 days to rest.

Today, we're going to talk about the importance of rest in creating a happy healthy workplace with Karen Reyburn.

Karen is the owner of The Profitable Firm, a creative agency exclusively for accountants that operates under Four Pillars (creativity, integrity, generosity, and rest). They take great pride in their work, and they'd work late hours to meet deadlines, but recognize that rest is required for this kind of hard work.

How do you take the time off your schedule to rest when everything around you - clients, social media, and other responsibilities - press you to hustle, work faster and just keep moving?

In this episode, Karen discusses how rest is more than just sleeping or relaxing. She also shares some of her personal life experiences in what it practically means to take a rest and how she is leading and setting an example for her business and employees.

What you will learn:

• 2 core reasons why the "Rest Pillar" is an important part of Karen's company (both in her business and personal life)
• The difference between 'rest' and 'relaxation'
• Understanding what true rest is
• The concept of hustling and hurrying and the dangers that come with it
• Remote work, flexible schedule, and work autonomy
• Why productivity matters more over the amount of working hours
• Transparency and trust
• The wonderful benefits rest can do for you and your employees

Connect with Karen Reyburn:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• The Profitable Business
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Resources Mentioned:

• The Happy Healthy Workplace episode 2

The motivator that pushes one to finish their work is an "incentive"! If you really want to recognize your employees for their hard work, you've got to do more than just giving them a pat on the back. I mean, who doesn't love receiving something free that's going to benefit them in the long run?

To keep your talent happy and engaged, reward them with incentives!

A research study was done by Barbara Zabawa and her team showing that incentives ARE a driver to act. Regardless of income, people are pushed to participate in programs and activities to get the incentive reward, even the smallest bit of it.

And today, Barbara Zabawa joins us again to talk about incentives and the laws related to it. She was our guest back in episode 5, on how to stay in compliance with the law when it comes to implementing employee health programs.

In this conversation, we discussed the results of her research on how incentives get people involved with various program offerings in the workplace. We also touched on the issue between AARP suing EEOC and why it's important for our employees to have incentives that work.

Incentives are still something that a lot of people want. Having a happy healthy workplace requires an incentive that caters to our employees need(s) and programs that work for the workplace.

What you will learn:

• Incentives tied to workplace wellness programs
• When do employees feel obligated to give up their health information in exchange for earning an incentive
• The rate of employees participating in a program when there is no incentive involved
• What made Barbara decide to research on incentives, health information collection, and workplace wellness programs
• AARP vs. EEOC
• Shocking results from Barbara's research survey

More about Barbara Zabawa:

Barbara Zabawa is the owner of Center for Health and Wellness Law, LLC a law firm dedicated to improving legal access and compliance for the health and wellness industries. She's also a Clinical Assistant Professor for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Health Sciences, Department of Health Services Administration.

She wrote the book Rule the Rules on Workplace Wellness Programs to help others especially employers to better understand workplace wellness laws and how professionals and organizations should apply them.

Learn more about Barbara here

Connect with her @: Twitter Instagram Facebook LinkedIn

Additional Resources:

• The Happy Healthy Workplace Podcast Episode 5 with Barbara Zabawa
• Americans Disability Act (ADA)
• The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)
• EEOC

Everyone works but not everyone loves their work - Xenium HR Manifesto

It's no secret that employee engagement is one of the main drivers of business performance. It's one of the biggest challenge employers and managers are faced. To maintain workplace productivity, employees should feel valued and happy.

There's plenty of ways to make your team more inspired by their work, and Brandon the host of Transform Your Workplace podcast is here to help you get an insight into what's it like to have your employees engaged and how you can incorporate these kinds of activities into your business operations.

Brandon Laws is the Director of Marketing at Xenium HR, an HR employer services company located at Tualatin, Oregon. It centers around supporting small and medium-sized companies that have limited or no internal HR resources.

Today Brandon is going to talk about the activities to get your employees more collaborative, engaged, and happy! He also shared his top 3 favorite activities that Xenium has done for its employees and the main key that you should take note of when it comes to managing your people.

What you will learn:

• The book club and the beauty of reading business books
• What is 'Passport to Xenium'?
• The culture of flexibility and autonomy at work
• The main reason why communication breaks down
• What to do when an employee doesn't want to take the time out of the workday for company activities and development programs
• Why flexibility and autonomy is important
• Productivity = Results
• Employee feedback

Connect with Brandon:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Xenium
  • LinkedIn

Resources Mentioned:

• Transform Your Workplace podcast
• Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord
• Tana Thompson former Xenium HR VP LinkedIn
• Perkinson Company
• Barbara Zabawa
• The Happy Healthy Workplace - Workplace employee program incentive episode
• Natalie Fairchild
• The Happy Healthy Workplace - The PERKS of a flexible work schedule episode
• Pacific Perks

Have you ever noticed when you do something nice like buying someone coffee, giving someone a present or complimenting others for their hard work, you feel happy as well?  

Today, I'm talking to Carl Gough about how altruism in the workplace positively affects productivity. Carl is the founder of MeetMagic, an organization that offers an altruistic business meeting for business leaders and digital transformation suppliers in an online platform. They're a for purpose enterprise, delivering positive social cultural and environmental impact by donating 50% of their consulting fees directly to charities after each meeting, helping charities raise funds.  

In this episode as Carl talks about the concept of "helper's high" and "giver's glow" and why having an altruistic component available in your workplace helps you to create a community of giving.

What you will learn:

• What is giver's glow or helper's high?
• How to create an experience that engages your employees
• Mental health and depression in the workplace
• How giving contributes to low depression in the workplace
• Millennials in the workforce

Connect with Carl and MeetMagic:

• Contact MeetMagic here
• Facebook

Resources Mentioned:

• MeetMagic
• Pacific Perks
• You've Got Perked Campaign
• Nathalie Fairfield
• WHO
• Secure Works
• Global Cloud Xchange

When you ask employees, what benefit they want most, the flexibility of work hours or schedule is something that's on top of their wish-list. In our fast-paced changing world, people want to have the ability to work a more flexible schedule in order to keep up with their life outside of work.

For most business owners, their employees are the number one source of stress. But for today's guest, it's different. In her company, employees are the least of her worries.

Today, I'm talking to Natalie Fairchild, the owner and founder of Pacific Perks, a flat-fee mobile cafe that specializes in creating fun and surprising experiences for various events. They have been working side by side with their customers, creating over ten thousand successful catering events and over 9 honors from a variety of reputable local sources.

We're going to talk about why she started the flexibility and balance of life culture where her employees get to pick their own schedules and how it makes a difference in their lives.

Flexible working schedule options help businesses grow and increase productivity. Employers who understand the power this benefit are the ones who thrive.

Giving your employees the ability to work a flexible work schedule really is a WIN-WIN situation!

What you will learn:

• Why and How Pacific Perks started their "flexible work schedule" culture
• Pacific Perks innovative scheduling practice
• How work flexibility improves productivity
• Creating an impact in the life of your employees
• The You've Been Perked Campaign and how it made a difference in Pacific Perks' workplace
• Self-care for women

 Connect with Natalie Fairchild & Pacific Perks:

+1 360-852-8542 | LinkedIn Instagram Facebook

Additional Resources:

• Pacific Perks
• You've Been Perked Campaign
• Pacific Perks: You've Been Perked Campaign
• Nike
• Hilton
• WellsFargo
• Regence

Compliance with employee program incentives is not something that you should be fearful of. Embracing it will help your employees trust your program and keep you safe with the law.

Today, I'm talking to Barbara Zabawa, a National Wellness Lawyer with The Center for Health and Wellness Law LLC, a go-to law firm for health and wellness industries that provides legal advice, resources, trainings, and advocacy to help companies operate in compliance.

In this episode, Barbara shares how to stay in compliance with the law when running a health and wellness program. We'll be talking about the laws around incentivizing your designed program so that it continues to run smoothly.

We also talk about Macy's being sued by the Department of Labor due to non-compliance with the law (RAS).

This is an important discussion you'll want to know when starting an inclusive well-being and culture program where incentives are being used.

Be on the right side of the law as Barbara shares her knowledge to help us avoid instances like that of Macy's.

 What you will learn:

• DOL suing Macy's alleging discriminatory smoking cessation plan
• The purpose of RAS
• Having a compliance evaluation for health and wellness programs to make sure there's no inadvertent discriminatory treatment
• How an employer should view and take compliance issues
• Who to get in touch with regarding compliance issues
• Why having an inclusive wellness program is very important

More about Barbara Zabawa:

Barbara Zabawa is the owner of Center for Health and Wellness Law, LLC a law firm dedicated to improving legal access and compliance for the health and wellness industries. She's also a Clinical Assistant Professor for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Health Sciences, Department of Health Services Administration.

She wrote the book Rule the Rules on Workplace Wellness Programs to help others especially employers to better understand workplace wellness laws and how professionals and organizations should apply them.

Learn more about Barbara here

Connect with her @: Twitter Instagram Facebook LinkedIn

Additional Resources:

• Center for Health & Wellness SSC
• EEOC
• RAS, ADA, HIPAA
• Smoking Cessation Program
• Discrimination Law 788
• Rule the Rules on Workplace Wellness Program
• Workplace wellness legal crosshairs time- hipaa incentive rules
• january-1-2019-No incentive limits right

We're picking up where Steve left off in "How to free up money within your health insurance costs to help you solve the other problems in your business Part I" and learn more about health insurance cost to free up money so that the business is more profitable and employees happier.

 In this episode, Steve and I will dig deeper on the things that can help employers cut down on their cost and be able to reinvest in their businesses and employees.

He also explains why it's important for people from different departments to work together; And look for ways to save on health insurance cost to establish creative programs for employees' development and grow the company, making it a place where everybody wants to work.

What you will learn:

• Networking with other CFOs and people who are in alignment with your business and employees' needs
• Disrupting your current health system to remove some parts that don't serve you, your business, and your employees'
• Looking at healthcare insurance like a 3-5 year period
• What can happen when HR and Finance department works hand-in-hand to look for ways to save on health insurance cost
• Believing change is possible because others have done it
• The status of Steven's company after he implemented changes
• Being aware of your cost in general and looking for ways to make it go down

More about Steve Watson:

Since 2009, Steve has been helping companies manage their finances as they grow. His knowledge, of the Health Insurance industry, has led him to equip fellow CFOs with the tools to negotiate a fair rate for their company.

Learn more about Steve and Summit Path Group here.

Social Media: YouTube LinkedIn

12 resources you ALREADY have in your Toolbox to Create a Happier, Healthier & More Productive Workplace

Click Here to get the book!!

Additional Resources:

• Summit Path Group
• Health Rosetta
• GoodRx app
• Simpl Pay app

Health care insurance is a critical benefit that cost not only the employee but also the employer's business.

You are creating a profitable business when you decrease your health insurance cost. But how do you decrease rates when it keeps rising year by year?

Today I'm talking to Steve Watson the founder, CFO, and Managing Director of Summit Path Group, a company that helps employers buy health insurance to make their employees happy at the lowest price possible. 

In this episode, he's sharing his insights concerning health insurance cost to help solve business problems, as well as his approach in decreasing the rates of companies by 20% without switching plans.

This is a subject that I'm sure every CFO out there will love to hear about!

What you will learn:

• Aligning yourself and your company with the right type of broker
• Why most companies are paying 50-70% more now than they were 8 years ago
• Knowing how and how much a broker agency is getting paid
• Creating a profitable business where people want to work
• Replicating solutions that lower the cost of employee benefits without affecting the employees
• Setting up an 'Employer-based Plan'
• Being aware of your cost in general and what you can do to make it go down

More about Steve Watson:

Since 2009, Steve has been helping companies manage their finances as they grow. His knowledge, of the Health Insurance industry, has led him to equip fellow CFOs with the tools to negotiate a fair rate for their company.

Learn more about Steve and Summit Path Group here.

Social Media: YouTube LinkedIn

Free ebook:

12 resources you ALREADY have in your Toolbox to Create a Happier, Healthier & More Productive Workplace

Click Here to get the book!!

Additional Resources:

• Summit Path Group
• Health Rosetta

In this episode, I chat with Pat Welch CEO and CoFounder of Boly:Welch. We are going to find out what it takes to make the Top 100 best places to work list. Pat shares at least 25 different things that you can take back to your company and implement TODAY!

Massages, waxes and lash extensions? Yep, Boly:Welch has it all and so much more.

Pat Welch brings her "can-do" attitude to the business and creates a community within the walls of their company by putting their employees first. You won't want to miss this one!

LINKS:

Sign up for our Free checklist! 12 resources you already have in your toolbox to make your workplace happier, healthier and more profitable. 

https://www.thehappyhealthyworkplace.com/

Boly:Welch: https://bolywelch.com/

In this episode I chat with Misty Dupont, HR Generalist with Key Knife Company.

Misty's work with her benefits partner is for sure a secret you will want in on! In this podcast episode you'll hear about:

-How you can partner with your benefits insurance partner to build a "brand" for your wellness program.

-How small nudges and cues in the workplace can accelerate a mindset of healthiness.

-Questions to ask to help you launch a successful Well Being program at your company!

LINKS

 Sign up for our Free checklist! 12 resources you already have in your toolbox to make your workplace happier, healthier and more profitable.

https://thehappyhealthyworkplace.com/

Key Knife Company Website https://www.keyknife.com/

Pacific Source Health Plans https://www.pacificsource.com