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New Years Resolution Solutions

New Years Resolution Solutions

  • Daniel Feerst
If you made New Year's resolutions and are still hanging in there after a couple of weeks, [...]
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Newsletter Ideas for Workplaces

  • Daniel Feerst
Your newsletter is not worth very much if people do not read it. So, you want engagement, and that means having things in it the newsletter that people want to read. I am going to give you some sec...
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Eye

Your first blog post!

  • Daniel Feerst
Welcome to your blog! A blog is a great place to share details on your products, business and whatever else you think your shoppers might like to hear from you. You can include photos in your blog...
Read More
Eye

Could Your Employee Newsletter for Health and Workplace Wellness Help Prevent Suicide?

  • Daniel Feerst
Suicide prevention certainly is a worthy goal, but why am I so surprised by how many people don't believe they have much of a role in this ageless problem? Suicide prevention is a lot like marketin...
Read More

FrontLine Employee EAP Newsletter

The easy, no-hassle newsletter thousands of companies use to avoid all the work.

Download Now
FrontLine Employee EAP Newsletter
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Training the Supervisor to Engage with Employees and Implications for Effective Intervention in Reasonable Suspicion Training

  • Daniel Feerst
Ceasing Dual Relationships and Conflict of Interest to Sabotage in Reasonable Suspicion In most workplace settings, friendly relationships exist among the employees. Moreover, it is not a bad ide...
Read More
Eye

Internet Drugs: What Parents Should Know

  • Daniel Feerst
Instead of sketchy street corners in bad neighborhoods and dangerous alleys behind night clubs, more illicit drug users are turning to the internet to get their fix. Unfortunately, you can buy pr...
Read More
Eye

Supervisor Training and Education Tips: The EAP Can Help You Overcome Insecurities

  • Daniel Feerst
Supervisors often feel insecure and worry about how they come across to others in social situations.
Read More
Eye

Employee Assistance Program Usually the Best Choice When an Employee Speaks Up

  • Dan Feerst
It is not unusual for employees to recommend resources to each other for dealing with problems, but the EAP is more often the best choice.[...]
Read More
Eye

Seven Unusual Benefit of DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training Online for Supervisors

  • Daniel Feerst
You’ll be surprised to discover the not so often considered advantages of DOT compliance training online for drug and alcohol awareness. Let’s dive in.The U.S. Department of Transportation requires...
Read More
Eye

Reduce Risk with Workplace Sensitivity Training PowerPoints (ppt) Turned into Online Training Courses

  • WorkExcel.com Staff
When employees come together, everything in that makes them up as people comes with them. One tool to improve workforce cohesion and influence employee behaviors in the direction of what is posit...
Read More
Eye

Better Zooming: Ten Tips for Avoiding Holiday Stress and Isolation with Better Use of Zoom

  • Dan Feerst, MSW, LISW-CP
You can find more tip sheets on workplace wellness at http://HandoutsPlus.comWith the holidays just around the corner, millions of people are turning to Zoom video conferencing to relieve their fee...
Read More
Eye

Enjoy the Stress -- It's Not All Bad

  • Daniel Feerst
Stress Isn't Always Bad for You -- Here's Why Although stress is a normal part of everyday life, we typically think of it as a bad thing. The reality is that some stress challenges us to improve ou...
Read More
Eye

Ten Signs of Burnout and How to Intervene with Yourself to Prevent It

  • Daniel Feerst
Job burnout is officially recognized by the World Health Organization in 2019 as an occupational phenomenon. Here is the statement issued in July 2019:“Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resul...
Read More
Eye

DOT Supervisor Compliance Training Online

  • Daniel Feerst
Substance Abuse in the Workplace: 4 Essential Elements to Stop It From HappeningThe Department of Transportation (DOT) requires businesses in the transportation industry to ensure that personnel ...
Read More
Eye

1 of 10 Excuses Employees will Use When Confronted by the Supervisor for Reasonable Suspicion of Workplace Substance Abuse

Read More
Eye

Workplace Wellness and Anger Management Education for Employees

  • Steve Dell
This article for employee wellness was written by Steve Dell Hypnotherapy and features ways in which you can improve workplace wellness and positively manage anger.Reading employee articles rel...
Read More
Eye

Employee Manipulation in Reasonable Suspicion Confrontations: #1 "But We Are Friends!"

  • Daniel Feerst
CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW THE FULL PRODUCT FOR DOT SUPERVISOR TRAINING
Read More
Eye

Seven Ways to Make Your Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PPT (PowerPoint) Deliver More Impact for DOT Supervisors

  • Daniel Feerst
CLICK IMAGE TO PREVIEWThere is no mystery as to what content must be included in a Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PPT for DOT Supervisors. The federal government is quite specific, but the ent...
Read More
Eye

Binge Drinking: Alcohol Awareness and Education for Employees

The CDC defines binge drinking as consuming alcohol to a .08 BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) and beyond. This level of binge drinking often requires as little as a few drinks within an hour’s time in...
Read More
Eye

Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PowerPoint: What You Need to Say About Binge Drinking

  • Daniel Feerst
The CDC defines binge drinking as consuming alcohol to a .08 BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) and beyond. This is a very simple definition. And as you might guess, a lot people are guilty of binge dri...
Read More
Eye

DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint -- Should You Insert Information on Internet Drugs: What Parents Should Know

  • Daniel Feerst
Should a class full of supervisors waiting for a DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint to start also be given a little bit of information on teen substance abuse? I think they should. After ...
Read More
Eye

DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint -- Critical to Mention Fentanyl

  • Daniel Feerst
We're adding Fentanyl information to the DOT Reasonable Suspicion PowerPoint, beginning next week. We will take the content directly from our Fentanyl program. Unless you’ve been living under a roc...
Read More
Eye

Manager's Handbook for Handling Traumatic Events in the Workplace [Awesome/Download]

  • Employee Assistance Consultant, Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP
I made a golden find on the Internet. You will want this resource!I am always on the hunt for great great resources for HR and EAP professionals that can help them manage employees and managers, an...
Read More
Eye

New Study: One Drink Per Day, Shortens Lifespan?

Read More
Eye

Be Sure to Educate Employees about "What They Can Do" to Help Prevent Opioid Addiction

  • Daniel A. Feerst, MSW, LISW-CP
Employees at work are a captured audience being paid on the clock. The beauty of this reality is that your can educate them about common problems and concerns, and offer solutions, tips, and expert...
Read More
Eye

Is DOT Training Mandatory?

Is DOT Training Mandatory? Who does the DOT Drug Testing Regulations cover?The Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991 requires drug and alcohol testing of safety-sensitive transporta...
Read More
Eye

Increase EAP Utilization, Program Value, and Build More Critical Workplace Relationships with the Right EAP Newsletter

Are you the victim of the following dangerous EAP myth? Many EA professionals falsely believe that their programs are safe from closure, sale, contract loss, or takeover by managed care hotlin...
Read More
Eye

How SMS Will Keep Guests and Employees Safe in a Crisis

When a crisis occurs, how you communicate with guests and employees matters. Safety is important. If you are able tobe proactive and have strong communication skills, you are going to save lives ...
Read More
Eye

Help Employees Bounce Back After Disciplinary Actions to Reduce Risk, Lower Turnover, and Increase Productivity

No matter how well employees do their jobs, chances are they will have a corrective interview someday with their supervisor at least once--if you're an above average worker, your chances incr...
Read More
Eye

Supervisor Humor in the Workplace May Undermine Productivity.

Humorous Supervisors May Not Produce Happy ResultsEverything in moderation...Humor can motivate and engage employees according to research. But research has found in some cases, that the boss’s...
Read More
Eye

Reasonable Suspicion Training: Is Your Biggest Enabler the Organization or the DOT Workplace--Itself?

You already know about enabling and enablers. These are the people alcoholics and addicts depend on to help them experience consequences associated with their substance abuse. All addicts will inte...
Read More
Eye

Top Seven Ways Employee Addicts Play Their DOT Supervisors -- (Making Reasonable Suspicion Training More Effective)

You’ve finally got the goods on an employee who is coming to work drunk, and you appropriately confront him about his behavior. You may not know it, but you’ve just put yourself in the sights o...
Read More
Eye

Inhalant Abuse Among Employees: Should DOT Supervisor Training for Reasonable Suspicion Include This Substance?

For some, getting high is as close as a can of spray paint or a few ounces of gasoline. Inhalant abuse, often called “huffing, or “sniffing,”” generates a quick high from breathing a variety ...
Read More
Eye

Educate Employees about Major Depression Illness and Improve Productivity While You Save Lives

All mental health professionals conduct assessments and/or treat people for depression from time to time. Some who suffer with this illness may experience such ch...
Read More
Eye
#tompetty
alcohol and drug awareness training
tom petty

Tom Petty: What's the Rest of the Story? Truth about His Death -- Is It Acute Chronic Alcoholism.

Tom Petty is dead, but his overdose was only a dramatic symptom of his addictive disease. Don't be fooled. There is more to the story that you are not getting from the press concerning this tr...
Read More
Eye
customer service training
leading teams
managers training
supervisor training
team leadership

New WorkExcel.com Course! -- A Manager's Guide to Superior Customer Service

Sure employees get training in customer service. That's critical. But, unfortunately, there is one person who is in charge. It's the supervisor. If supervisors don't know how to lead customer...
Read More
Eye

Managing Obesity in the Workplace − New Guidance from ACOEM

  • Press Release
Evidence Supports Access to Bariatric Surgery and Other Obesity Treatments Effective prevention and treatment steps—including coverage for bariatric surgery, when indicated—can help employers to...
Read More
Eye

More Empathy, Engagement, and Improved Communication are Keys to Reducing Workers' Comp Costs

The research is clear--better empathetic communication and engagement with injured workers can reduce workers' compensation costs associated with their recovery.HR and EAPs should collaborat...
Read More
Eye

Alcohol Awareness Training to Meet DOT: Don't Make It All about Signs and Symptoms

Alcohol awareness training is an important function in every workplace where large numbers of employees exist. Most alcohol awareness training is inadequate or too superficial. Before purchasing...
Read More
Eye
dot supervisor training
enabling
reasonable suspicion training
Teen substancea abuse awareness training

Reasonable Suspicion Training Topic: Throw in Some News and Information on Teen Substance Abuse

  • Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP
We know that the U.S. Department of Transportation does not require that mandatory alcohol and drug education training for DOT supervisors include information like teen drug abuse, enabling, or eve...
Read More
Eye

Start Dealng with DOT Supervisor Myths to Make the Biggest Impact on Referrals to Testing

  • Dan
DOT Supervisor Training and the impact of myths create the maintenance of stigma. They also serve avoid EAP referrals. Supevisors are also more likely to blame and anger at addict for performance i...
Read More
Eye
Advice for EAP professionals
dating co-workers
eap
employee assistance programs
romantic relationships at work

Hmm? Should I or Shouldn't I? Romantic Relationships at Work -- Guidance for Employees and EAP Direct Service

  • Daniel Feerst
Busier lifestyles have made finding romance more difficult today than in recent memory. With communication technology often reducing human interaction to abbreviated text messages and shorthand ema...
Read More
Eye

Drug Awareness Training for Managers

Stop! If you are instituting drug awareness training for managers, take one step backwards and put together a drug-free workplace policy that recognizes addiction and alcoholism as a chronic dise...
Read More
Eye
DOT Powerpoint.
dot supervisor traing
DVD
reasonable suspicion training
Video
Web Course you own

DOT Supervisor Training: Part 1 of 5: Myths and Misconceptions that Don't Match Reality -- One of Five Ways Supervisors Cover Up, Enable, and Sabotage Drug Free Workplace Programs

  • Daniel Feerst
Bill’s a great plumber. His skills are like nobody's—he’s got the magic touch with plumbing and pipes, and he also has a lot on his mind managing 20 other plumbers, assistants, and an office staf...
Read More
Eye
eap
employee assistance programs
epl
insurance
The Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense

Employee Assistance Programs: Understand the Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense

  • Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP (800) 626-4327
The Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense is an argument used in court against lawsuits for employment complaints like sexual harassment. It can also be used as a defense against any other kind of l...
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Eye
employee assistance programs
reducing risk
valued-added eap services

Employee Assistance Programs Can Support Employees Using Antidepressants to Reduce Elevated Risk of Death

  • Dan Feerst
NEWS ITEM Antidepressant medications, most commonly prescribed to reduce depression and anxiety, increase the risk of death, according to new findings by a McMaster-led team of researchers....
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eap
employee assistance programs
p-c insurers
property casualty insurance
risk management
risk managers
workers compensation

EAPs Massively Overlooked as Customer Risk Reduction Tools by Property Casualty Insurers and Risk Managers

  • Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP
Lew sat quietly in his office at the Chino Mines in the 1950's trying to find a solution to a massive problem he was hired to fix. Lewis Presnall, D. Div.-- was a pastoral counselor hired by Ke...
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Eye
depression
eap
loneliness
lonely

Employee Assistance Programs and the Lonely EAP Client (Is Loneliness the New Obesity?)

  • Daniel Feerst
Loneliness—it’s the reason why we reach out for one another in the middle of the night. The reason we sit beneath the stars and make wishes. The reason we make music, the reason we commit ourselv...
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Eye
drug abuse
drug and alcohol awareness education
drug and alcohol education for employees
employee training

Seven Reasons Business Organizations Should Offer Employee Drug and Alcohol Awareness Education

I haven't spoken to you in probably a month, but I wanted to ask if you provide education and awareness to employees concerning alcohol and other drugs of abuse. There are powerful reasons fo...
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Eye
fake id
parenting teens

Parenting and Fake ID’s: What’s to Know?

  • Daniel Feerst
Teens obtaining fake identification is nothing new. Although most states have made it more difficult to duplicate a driver’s license since 9/11, young adults can still purchase IDs that make them...
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New Years Resolution Solutions

New Years Resolution Solutions

  • Daniel Feerst
If you made New Year's resolutions and are still hanging in there after a couple of weeks, [...]
Read More
Newsletter Ideas for Workplaces Eye

Newsletter Ideas for Workplaces

  • Daniel Feerst
Your newsletter is not worth very much if people do not read it. So, you want engagement, and that means having things in it the newsletter that people want to read. I am going to give you some sec...
Read More
Your first blog post! Eye

Your first blog post!

  • Daniel Feerst
Welcome to your blog! A blog is a great place to share details on your products, business and whatever else you think your shoppers might like to hear from you. You can include photos in your blog...
Read More
Could Your Employee Newsletter for Health and Workplace Wellness Help Prevent Suicide? Eye

Could Your Employee Newsletter for Health and Workplace Wellness Help Prevent Suicide?

  • Daniel Feerst
Suicide prevention certainly is a worthy goal, but why am I so surprised by how many people don't believe they have much of a role in this ageless problem? Suicide prevention is a lot like marketin...
Read More

FrontLine Employee EAP Newsletter

The easy, no-hassle newsletter thousands of companies use to avoid all the work.

Download Now
FrontLine Employee EAP Newsletter
Training the Supervisor to Engage with Employees and Implications for Effective Intervention in Reasonable Suspicion Training Eye

Training the Supervisor to Engage with Employees and Implications for Effective Intervention in Reasonable Suspicion Training

  • Daniel Feerst
Ceasing Dual Relationships and Conflict of Interest to Sabotage in Reasonable Suspicion In most workplace settings, friendly relationships exist among the employees. Moreover, it is not a bad ide...
Read More
Internet Drugs: What Parents Should Know Eye

Internet Drugs: What Parents Should Know

  • Daniel Feerst
Instead of sketchy street corners in bad neighborhoods and dangerous alleys behind night clubs, more illicit drug users are turning to the internet to get their fix. Unfortunately, you can buy pr...
Read More
Supervisor Training and Education Tips: The EAP Can Help You Overcome Insecurities Eye

Supervisor Training and Education Tips: The EAP Can Help You Overcome Insecurities

  • Daniel Feerst
Supervisors often feel insecure and worry about how they come across to others in social situations.
Read More
Employee Assistance Program Usually the Best Choice When an Employee Speaks Up Eye

Employee Assistance Program Usually the Best Choice When an Employee Speaks Up

  • Dan Feerst
It is not unusual for employees to recommend resources to each other for dealing with problems, but the EAP is more often the best choice.[...]
Read More
Seven Unusual Benefit of DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training Online for Supervisors Eye

Seven Unusual Benefit of DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training Online for Supervisors

  • Daniel Feerst
You’ll be surprised to discover the not so often considered advantages of DOT compliance training online for drug and alcohol awareness. Let’s dive in.The U.S. Department of Transportation requires...
Read More
Reduce Risk with Workplace Sensitivity Training PowerPoints (ppt) Turned into Online Training Courses Eye

Reduce Risk with Workplace Sensitivity Training PowerPoints (ppt) Turned into Online Training Courses

  • WorkExcel.com Staff
When employees come together, everything in that makes them up as people comes with them. One tool to improve workforce cohesion and influence employee behaviors in the direction of what is posit...
Read More
Better Zooming: Ten Tips for Avoiding Holiday Stress and Isolation with Better Use of Zoom Eye

Better Zooming: Ten Tips for Avoiding Holiday Stress and Isolation with Better Use of Zoom

  • Dan Feerst, MSW, LISW-CP
You can find more tip sheets on workplace wellness at http://HandoutsPlus.comWith the holidays just around the corner, millions of people are turning to Zoom video conferencing to relieve their fee...
Read More
Enjoy the Stress -- It's Not All Bad Eye

Enjoy the Stress -- It's Not All Bad

  • Daniel Feerst
Stress Isn't Always Bad for You -- Here's Why Although stress is a normal part of everyday life, we typically think of it as a bad thing. The reality is that some stress challenges us to improve ou...
Read More
Ten Signs of Burnout and How to Intervene with Yourself to Prevent It Eye

Ten Signs of Burnout and How to Intervene with Yourself to Prevent It

  • Daniel Feerst
Job burnout is officially recognized by the World Health Organization in 2019 as an occupational phenomenon. Here is the statement issued in July 2019:“Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resul...
Read More
DOT Supervisor Compliance Training Online Eye

DOT Supervisor Compliance Training Online

  • Daniel Feerst
Substance Abuse in the Workplace: 4 Essential Elements to Stop It From HappeningThe Department of Transportation (DOT) requires businesses in the transportation industry to ensure that personnel ...
Read More
1 of 10 Excuses Employees will Use When Confronted by the Supervisor for Reasonable Suspicion of  Workplace Substance Abuse Eye

1 of 10 Excuses Employees will Use When Confronted by the Supervisor for Reasonable Suspicion of Workplace Substance Abuse

Read More
Workplace Wellness and Anger Management Education for Employees Eye

Workplace Wellness and Anger Management Education for Employees

  • Steve Dell
This article for employee wellness was written by Steve Dell Hypnotherapy and features ways in which you can improve workplace wellness and positively manage anger.Reading employee articles rel...
Read More
Employee Manipulation in Reasonable Suspicion Confrontations: #1 Eye

Employee Manipulation in Reasonable Suspicion Confrontations: #1 "But We Are Friends!"

  • Daniel Feerst
CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW THE FULL PRODUCT FOR DOT SUPERVISOR TRAINING
Read More
Seven Ways to Make Your Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PPT (PowerPoint) Deliver More Impact for DOT Supervisors Eye

Seven Ways to Make Your Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PPT (PowerPoint) Deliver More Impact for DOT Supervisors

  • Daniel Feerst
CLICK IMAGE TO PREVIEWThere is no mystery as to what content must be included in a Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PPT for DOT Supervisors. The federal government is quite specific, but the ent...
Read More
Binge Drinking: Alcohol Awareness and Education for Employees Eye

Binge Drinking: Alcohol Awareness and Education for Employees

The CDC defines binge drinking as consuming alcohol to a .08 BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) and beyond. This level of binge drinking often requires as little as a few drinks within an hour’s time in...
Read More
Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PowerPoint: What You Need to Say About Binge Drinking Eye

Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training PowerPoint: What You Need to Say About Binge Drinking

  • Daniel Feerst
The CDC defines binge drinking as consuming alcohol to a .08 BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) and beyond. This is a very simple definition. And as you might guess, a lot people are guilty of binge dri...
Read More
DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint -- Should You Insert Information on Internet Drugs: What Parents Should Know Eye

DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint -- Should You Insert Information on Internet Drugs: What Parents Should Know

  • Daniel Feerst
Should a class full of supervisors waiting for a DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint to start also be given a little bit of information on teen substance abuse? I think they should. After ...
Read More
DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint -- Critical to Mention Fentanyl Eye

DOT Reasonable Suspicion Training PowerPoint -- Critical to Mention Fentanyl

  • Daniel Feerst
We're adding Fentanyl information to the DOT Reasonable Suspicion PowerPoint, beginning next week. We will take the content directly from our Fentanyl program. Unless you’ve been living under a roc...
Read More
Manager's Handbook for Handling Traumatic Events in the Workplace [Awesome/Download] Eye

Manager's Handbook for Handling Traumatic Events in the Workplace [Awesome/Download]

  • Employee Assistance Consultant, Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP
I made a golden find on the Internet. You will want this resource!I am always on the hunt for great great resources for HR and EAP professionals that can help them manage employees and managers, an...
Read More
New Study: One Drink Per Day, Shortens Lifespan? Eye

New Study: One Drink Per Day, Shortens Lifespan?

Read More
Be Sure to Educate Employees about Eye

Be Sure to Educate Employees about "What They Can Do" to Help Prevent Opioid Addiction

  • Daniel A. Feerst, MSW, LISW-CP
Employees at work are a captured audience being paid on the clock. The beauty of this reality is that your can educate them about common problems and concerns, and offer solutions, tips, and expert...
Read More
Is DOT Training Mandatory? Eye

Is DOT Training Mandatory?

Is DOT Training Mandatory? Who does the DOT Drug Testing Regulations cover?The Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991 requires drug and alcohol testing of safety-sensitive transporta...
Read More
Increase EAP Utilization, Program Value, and Build More Critical Workplace Relationships with the Right EAP Newsletter Eye

Increase EAP Utilization, Program Value, and Build More Critical Workplace Relationships with the Right EAP Newsletter

Are you the victim of the following dangerous EAP myth? Many EA professionals falsely believe that their programs are safe from closure, sale, contract loss, or takeover by managed care hotlin...
Read More
How SMS Will Keep Guests and Employees Safe in a Crisis Eye

How SMS Will Keep Guests and Employees Safe in a Crisis

When a crisis occurs, how you communicate with guests and employees matters. Safety is important. If you are able tobe proactive and have strong communication skills, you are going to save lives ...
Read More
Help Employees Bounce Back After Disciplinary Actions to Reduce Risk, Lower Turnover, and Increase Productivity Eye

Help Employees Bounce Back After Disciplinary Actions to Reduce Risk, Lower Turnover, and Increase Productivity

No matter how well employees do their jobs, chances are they will have a corrective interview someday with their supervisor at least once--if you're an above average worker, your chances incr...
Read More
Supervisor Humor in the Workplace May Undermine Productivity. Eye

Supervisor Humor in the Workplace May Undermine Productivity.

Humorous Supervisors May Not Produce Happy ResultsEverything in moderation...Humor can motivate and engage employees according to research. But research has found in some cases, that the boss’s...
Read More
Reasonable Suspicion Training: Is Your Biggest Enabler the Organization or the DOT Workplace--Itself? Eye

Reasonable Suspicion Training: Is Your Biggest Enabler the Organization or the DOT Workplace--Itself?

You already know about enabling and enablers. These are the people alcoholics and addicts depend on to help them experience consequences associated with their substance abuse. All addicts will inte...
Read More
Top Seven Ways Employee Addicts Play Their DOT Supervisors -- (Making Reasonable Suspicion Training More Effective) Eye

Top Seven Ways Employee Addicts Play Their DOT Supervisors -- (Making Reasonable Suspicion Training More Effective)

You’ve finally got the goods on an employee who is coming to work drunk, and you appropriately confront him about his behavior. You may not know it, but you’ve just put yourself in the sights o...
Read More
Inhalant Abuse Among Employees: Should DOT Supervisor Training for Reasonable Suspicion Include This Substance? Eye

Inhalant Abuse Among Employees: Should DOT Supervisor Training for Reasonable Suspicion Include This Substance?

For some, getting high is as close as a can of spray paint or a few ounces of gasoline. Inhalant abuse, often called “huffing, or “sniffing,”” generates a quick high from breathing a variety ...
Read More
Educate Employees about Major Depression Illness and Improve Productivity While You Save Lives Eye

Educate Employees about Major Depression Illness and Improve Productivity While You Save Lives

All mental health professionals conduct assessments and/or treat people for depression from time to time. Some who suffer with this illness may experience such ch...
Read More
Tom Petty: What's the Rest of the Story? Truth about His Death -- Is It Acute Chronic Alcoholism. Eye
#tompetty
alcohol and drug awareness training
tom petty

Tom Petty: What's the Rest of the Story? Truth about His Death -- Is It Acute Chronic Alcoholism.

Tom Petty is dead, but his overdose was only a dramatic symptom of his addictive disease. Don't be fooled. There is more to the story that you are not getting from the press concerning this tr...
Read More
New WorkExcel.com Course! -- A Manager's Guide to Superior Customer Service Eye
customer service training
leading teams
managers training
supervisor training
team leadership

New WorkExcel.com Course! -- A Manager's Guide to Superior Customer Service

Sure employees get training in customer service. That's critical. But, unfortunately, there is one person who is in charge. It's the supervisor. If supervisors don't know how to lead customer...
Read More
Managing Obesity in the Workplace − New Guidance from ACOEM Eye

Managing Obesity in the Workplace − New Guidance from ACOEM

  • Press Release
Evidence Supports Access to Bariatric Surgery and Other Obesity Treatments Effective prevention and treatment steps—including coverage for bariatric surgery, when indicated—can help employers to...
Read More
More Empathy, Engagement, and Improved Communication are Keys to Reducing Workers' Comp Costs Eye

More Empathy, Engagement, and Improved Communication are Keys to Reducing Workers' Comp Costs

The research is clear--better empathetic communication and engagement with injured workers can reduce workers' compensation costs associated with their recovery.HR and EAPs should collaborat...
Read More
Alcohol Awareness Training to Meet DOT: Don't Make It All about Signs and Symptoms Eye

Alcohol Awareness Training to Meet DOT: Don't Make It All about Signs and Symptoms

Alcohol awareness training is an important function in every workplace where large numbers of employees exist. Most alcohol awareness training is inadequate or too superficial. Before purchasing...
Read More
Reasonable Suspicion Training Topic: Throw in Some News and Information on Teen Substance Abuse Eye
dot supervisor training
enabling
reasonable suspicion training
Teen substancea abuse awareness training

Reasonable Suspicion Training Topic: Throw in Some News and Information on Teen Substance Abuse

  • Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP
We know that the U.S. Department of Transportation does not require that mandatory alcohol and drug education training for DOT supervisors include information like teen drug abuse, enabling, or eve...
Read More
Start Dealng with DOT Supervisor Myths to Make the Biggest Impact on Referrals to Testing Eye

Start Dealng with DOT Supervisor Myths to Make the Biggest Impact on Referrals to Testing

  • Dan
DOT Supervisor Training and the impact of myths create the maintenance of stigma. They also serve avoid EAP referrals. Supevisors are also more likely to blame and anger at addict for performance i...
Read More
Hmm? Should I or Shouldn't I? Romantic Relationships at Work -- Guidance  for Employees and  EAP Direct Service Eye
Advice for EAP professionals
dating co-workers
eap
employee assistance programs
romantic relationships at work

Hmm? Should I or Shouldn't I? Romantic Relationships at Work -- Guidance for Employees and EAP Direct Service

  • Daniel Feerst
Busier lifestyles have made finding romance more difficult today than in recent memory. With communication technology often reducing human interaction to abbreviated text messages and shorthand ema...
Read More
Drug Awareness Training for Managers Eye

Drug Awareness Training for Managers

Stop! If you are instituting drug awareness training for managers, take one step backwards and put together a drug-free workplace policy that recognizes addiction and alcoholism as a chronic dise...
Read More
DOT Supervisor Training: Part 1 of 5: Myths and Misconceptions that Don't Match Reality -- One of Five Ways Supervisors Cover Up, Enable, and Sabotage Drug Free Workplace Programs Eye
DOT Powerpoint.
dot supervisor traing
DVD
reasonable suspicion training
Video
Web Course you own

DOT Supervisor Training: Part 1 of 5: Myths and Misconceptions that Don't Match Reality -- One of Five Ways Supervisors Cover Up, Enable, and Sabotage Drug Free Workplace Programs

  • Daniel Feerst
Bill’s a great plumber. His skills are like nobody's—he’s got the magic touch with plumbing and pipes, and he also has a lot on his mind managing 20 other plumbers, assistants, and an office staf...
Read More
Employee Assistance Programs: Understand the Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense Eye
eap
employee assistance programs
epl
insurance
The Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense

Employee Assistance Programs: Understand the Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense

  • Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP (800) 626-4327
The Faragher/Ellerth Affirmative Defense is an argument used in court against lawsuits for employment complaints like sexual harassment. It can also be used as a defense against any other kind of l...
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Employee Assistance Programs Can Support Employees Using Antidepressants to Reduce Elevated Risk of Death Eye
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Employee Assistance Programs Can Support Employees Using Antidepressants to Reduce Elevated Risk of Death

  • Dan Feerst
NEWS ITEM Antidepressant medications, most commonly prescribed to reduce depression and anxiety, increase the risk of death, according to new findings by a McMaster-led team of researchers....
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EAPs Massively Overlooked as Customer Risk Reduction Tools by Property Casualty Insurers and Risk Managers Eye
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EAPs Massively Overlooked as Customer Risk Reduction Tools by Property Casualty Insurers and Risk Managers

  • Daniel Feerst, BSW, MSW, LISW-CP
Lew sat quietly in his office at the Chino Mines in the 1950's trying to find a solution to a massive problem he was hired to fix. Lewis Presnall, D. Div.-- was a pastoral counselor hired by Ke...
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Employee  Assistance Programs and the Lonely EAP Client (Is Loneliness the New Obesity?) Eye
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Employee Assistance Programs and the Lonely EAP Client (Is Loneliness the New Obesity?)

  • Daniel Feerst
Loneliness—it’s the reason why we reach out for one another in the middle of the night. The reason we sit beneath the stars and make wishes. The reason we make music, the reason we commit ourselv...
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Seven Reasons Business Organizations Should Offer Employee Drug and Alcohol Awareness Education Eye
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Seven Reasons Business Organizations Should Offer Employee Drug and Alcohol Awareness Education

I haven't spoken to you in probably a month, but I wanted to ask if you provide education and awareness to employees concerning alcohol and other drugs of abuse. There are powerful reasons fo...
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Parenting and Fake ID’s: What’s to Know? Eye
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Parenting and Fake ID’s: What’s to Know?

  • Daniel Feerst
Teens obtaining fake identification is nothing new. Although most states have made it more difficult to duplicate a driver’s license since 9/11, young adults can still purchase IDs that make them...
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