HealthyCultureNow Podcast Episodes

Podcast Episodes for Executives, Managers and Well-being Champions

Leaders are gatekeepers. Executives, managers and well-being champions can make or break a well-being initiative. Five series explain how leaders can support a healthier and more productive workplace culture:

The Well-being Leadership series teaches seven strategies for supporting well-being programs.
An episode about the special role of senior management support.
The Aligning Cultural Touch Point series examines how to align twelve informal and formal policies and practices with well-being.
The Social Climate series highlights strategies for strengthening the sense of community, shared vision and positive outlook.
The Manager-Led Actions series features 103 manager challenges for enhancing the psychological and social well-being of their workgroups.
The Strategies for Supporting Personal Purpose series features 26 unique workplace initiatives for supporting a sense of personal purpose.

Core Course: Managers and Wellness Committee Members

HealthyCultureNow leadership training empowers managers and wellness committee members to:

Share the well-being vision
Serve as role models
Align policies and practices with well-being
Use well-being to improve morale
Develop a plan for their workgroup
Track and celebrate success

$95 per participant.

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The series were written by Judd Allen, Ph.D. and produced by Jake Hargrove. The music was composed and performed by Povel Popov. Episodes are narrated by:

Richard Safeer, MD, FACLM, FAAFP, FACPM, Chief Medical Director, Employee Health and Well-being at Johns Hopkins Medicine

Ewa Stelmasiak, MS, MSc, Founder, The Wellness Institute

Judd Allen, Ph.D., President, Human Resources Institute, LLC

Glen Caswell

How to Create a Well-being Culture in Your Home

This training is for people who share their homes. It teaches seven skills for creating a supportive cultural environment at home:

Discuss Personal Well-being Goals
Tell a Household Well-being Story
Create a Supportive Physical Environment
Adopt Healthy Norms and Traditions
Create a Well-being Learning Community
Strengthen Household Relationships
Foster a Healthy Social Atmosphere

The training utilizes video presentations (41 minutes total) with audio podcasts (35 minutes total). The training lasts 8 weeks. Participants should budget 45 minutes each week to complete the training. Each training unit includes a self-assessment that consolidates practical steps associated with key concepts.

This training is based on the following books by Judd Allen, PhD: Bringing Wellness Home, Kitchen Table Talks for Wellness, and A Family Guide to Wellness.

$29.00 USD

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Well-being Leadership Series

Leadership is important to any successful organizational endeavor. This is especially true for a challenge as ambitious and complex as creating a culture of well-being. This series teaches executives, managers, and wellness champions how to support a culture of well-being. You will learn how to better understand and engage in six primary well-being leadership responsibilities.

The series is 22 minutes and is based on the book, Wellness Leadership by Judd Allen, Ph.D.

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Episode 1: Overview

Episode 2: Modeling Well-being

Episode 3: Sharing Your Well-being Vision

Episode 4: Aligning Cultural Touch Points

Episode 5: Creating a Well-being Plan

Episode 6: Tracking and Celebrating Well-being

Episode 7: Fostering a Supportive Social Climate

Executive Support for Well-being

Executives have a lot of power when it comes to allocating resources, setting policies and communicating about organizational priorities. Senior managers have important roles in establishing a culture of well-being. In this episode, we explain how senior managers can:

Share why they think a culture of well-being is important.
Incorporate well-being into the strategic plan.
Delegate responsibility and a budget for carrying the well-being program forward.
Address institutional barriers to success.
Establish accountability for achieving organizational well-being goals.

The single episode for executives is laser focused on their unique role in driving a culture of well-being. We have a number of series that are recommended for executives seeking a deeper understanding of how to create a culture of well-being. Executives are likely to find the series on cultural touch points, purpose, and social climate of particular interest. These are described in the other series for leadership at all levels.

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Senior Leadership Support Well-being

Aligning Cultural Touch Point Series

This series is for executives, managers and members of wellness committees/task forces seeking to bring about sustained culture change within their organizations. Many formal and informal policies and practices, also known as "cultural touch points," influence well-being values and behavior. Rewards, training and communication are some of the most obvious cultural touch points. This series introduces 14 primary cultural touch points and recommends strategies for aligning them with well-being.

Total listening time 55 minutes.

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Episode 1: Overview

Episode 2: Learning and Training

Episode 3: Role Modeling

Episode 4: Rewards and Recognition

Episode 5: Pushback

Episode 6: Traditions

Episode 7: Communication

Episode 8: Relationship Development

Episode 9: Resource Commitment

Episode 10: Build Environment

Episode 11: Onboarding

Episode 12: Story and Narrative

Episode 13: Roles and Responsibilities

Episode 14: Goal Setting and Planning

Episode 15: Laws and Policies

Social Climate Series

Social climate is also known as engagement, morale and teamwork. Three climate factors ─ a sense of community, a shared vision, and a positive outlook ─ contribute to both individual well-being and to important organizational indicators such as customer service, innovation, employee engagement, and teamwork. Where they are noticeably absent and people don’t get along, well-being suffers and productivity slows. This series defines each social climate element and recommends strategies for improving the work atmosphere.

Total listening time: 27 minutes

The concepts featured in this training are based on over thirty years of research and work by Robert Allen, PhD and Judd Allen, PhD.

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Episode 1: Interview on Social Climate

Episode 2: Overview of Culture Dimension

Episode 3: Fostering a Sense of Community

Episode 4: Fostering a Shared Vision

Episode 5: Fostering a Positive Outlook

Strategies for Supporting Personal Purpose

We want our lives to matter. A sense of personal purpose is important to both individual health and to work performance. Our purposes include such endeavors as artistic expression, connecting to social groups, work, volunteering, religion and family. This series features field-tested initiatives that have been used by organizations to support a sense of purpose. You can select those approaches to purpose that are well suited to your workgroup.

Each episode describes an opportunity to support purpose at work. The goal is to select a few actions that are a good fit for your workgroup.

This series is based on the book, Leading for Purpose: How to Help Your People and Organization Benefit from the Pursuit of Purpose, by Judd Allen, Ph.D. and Donald B. Ardell, Ph.D.

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Episode 1: Purpose Series Overview

Episode 2: Provide Regular Feedback

Episode 3: Peer Recognition

Episode 4: Decision Making

Episode 5: Challenging Goals

Episode 6: Follow Through

Episode 7: Fruits of Their Efforts

Episode 8: Legacy Building

Episode 9: Limiting Interruptions

Episode 10: Professional Development

Episode 11: Support Reflection and Centering

Episode 12: Make Sense of Disruptive Events

Episode 13: Engage Forgotten Stakeholders

Episode 14: Update Values

Episode 15: Offer a Story

Episode 16: Connect to Future Generations

Episode 17: Support Environment

Episode 18: Champion a Cause

Episode 19: Support well-being

Episode 20: Encourage Mutual-interest

Episode 21: Encourage Creative Expression

Episode 22: Develop Win-win Solutions

Episode 23: Maintain Economic Transparency

Episode 24: Compensate

Episode 25: Tailor Job to Individual Purpose

Episode 26: Recognize Non-financial Compensation

Episode 27: Promote Work-life Balance

Manager-Led Actions Series

Cultivating social capital and a good work atmosphere requires your creativity and attention. This series features 103 field-tested management practices that foster a healthier, more cohesive, and more productive work environment. Unlike a proscriptive series on leadership, this is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, you choose those activities that are best suited for your unique culture. Challenge yourself and your team to take a chance on something that stretches your current norms.

This series is delivered in 103