HERO March Briefs
UPCOMING EVENTS Karen Moseley HERO Summer Think Tank: Developing Dashboards to Engage Leaders at All Levels (a free MEMBERS ONLY event) June 19, 2018 | Edina, MN Leadership support is essential for sustainable, effective health and well-being initiatives and sharing program evaluation and performance data is one strategy for building leadership support. But …
Autonomy and Companionate Love: Do we need a revolution in employee wellness offerings?
Autonomy and Companionate Love: Do we need a revolution in employee wellness offerings? Thirty years ago, during the budding era of worksite health promotion, wellness offerings were primarily an executive perk. Convenient physical exams, individual coaching and healthy foods served at the executive lounge were a sign of status afforded …
Companies That Care About Community Health: What’s their advantage?
As the movement from wellness to well-being gains momentum, more companies are looking beyond the workplace walls to the communities around them to build and encourage a 24/7 culture of health. Recently published research helps to distill business priorities related to corporate engagement in community health improvement partnerships. Findings also …
Head, Heart and Feet in Weight Management
It has been argued that the willpower of our citizenry hasn’t measurably changed during the decades in which our nation’s waistlines have measurably expanded. I agree, and I’d also submit that a weakening of political willpower and a lack of moral courage among those of us called to leadership is …
HERO Think Tank Readings for “Overdosed: Are we taking in too much?” The Opioid Epidemic
Winter Think Tank Meeting March 1st and 2nd Austin, Texas How are we doing as a profession, and as family members and citizens, speaking up about addiction? As I was preparing our Think Tank Agenda focused on the opioid epidemic, I was weighing how much time to allow for personal …
Why Health Promotion really needs to Change by Paul Terry
Photo credit: elearning.org When I first worked in health promotion, workplace-based services such as free screenings or health coaching were only available to executives, smoking policies were a radical idea, school lunches were uniformly abominable, and community bike paths and gardens were a rarity. Mid-career, I worked in Africa where …
Trading Shoes for a Machete’: Why Cultural Context Matters when trying to do Good by Paul Terry
Photo credit: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2017 Allow me to tell you a story about an ongoing struggle I’ve had with cultural context and working in prevention. This is an episode where I thought I was doing the right thing on behalf of a non-working poor person in Tanzania. But …
2017 Annual Report of Accomplishments
Dear HERO Members, Stakeholders and Friends, On behalf of the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) Board of Directors and all of our HERO members who are so actively working to advance excellence in workplace health promotion, the HERO team is proud to share our 2017 Annual Report of Accomplishments. What …
Meeting the Needs of Sub-Population Cultures
Addressing the needs of sub-cultures is essential to fostering a culture of health. For example, something that may work great on the day shift may have little traction on the night shift. The norms and needs of machine operators may be very different from those in sales. How do you identify …
HERO’s Legacy Stories: Changing How We Think about Health and Well-being
1) Where did the HERO name and logo come from? Bill Whitmer was a very creative person and was responsible for coming up with the original name (Health Enhancement Research Organization) as well as the HERO acronym. As a result of unanticipated results from Google searches of the term “health …