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Senior management memo to employees
Poster: Step Into a Healthy Lifestyle (English/Spanish)
Training: Healthy Eating and Stress Management
Manager’s article: How Managers Can Address Obesity in the Workplace
Articles:
- Living Too Large—Overeating and Obesity in America
- Losing Weight for Better Health (E/S)
- The Basic Principles of Healthy Eating (E/S)
- Depression Screening Day: Obesity and Depression
Calculator: What Is Your Body Mass Index?
Tip sheet: 12 Tips to Help You Lose Weight (E/S)
Banner graphic/link for intranet: Healthy Lifestyle |
Campaign
Kick-off |
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Training: Stress, Depression and the Holidays
Articles:
- Coping With Food and Feelings at Food-focused Events
- American Diabetes Month: Complications of Obesity
- What’s On Your Plate? Eating Well and Losing Weight (E/S)
E-mail message: Losing Weight for Better Health |
Holiday 911 |
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Manager’s article: Help Your Employees Cope With Change
Tip Sheet: Coping With the Holiday Blues
Articles:
- Finding Time to Exercise: It’s Easier Than You Think (E/S)
- Managing Your Stress (English); 20 Tips to Tame Stress (Spanish)
- Lifestyle Risk Factors for Obesity
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Winter: Surviving & Thriving |
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Articles:
- Making New Year’s Resolutions That Last
- Setting Realistic Goals
- Healthy Weight Week: Helpful Weight Loss Tips (E/S)
- Seeking Help for Obesity
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Commit to Change |
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Poster: Stressed Out?
Training series: Stress Management; Stress Management and Healthy Well-being
Manager training: Managing Anxiety in the Workplace
Manager’s article: Overcoming Stress: Challenges for the Workplace
Self-scoring quiz: Stressful Events Inventory
Articles:
- Walking for a Better State of Mind
- Stressed Out? Work Out! (E/S)
Tip sheet: Five-minute Stress Busters (E/S) |
American Heart Month: Focus on Stress Management |
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Articles:
- Food and Mood: What’s the Connection?
- The Food Guide Pyramid
- Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths
Tip sheet, e-mail message: The Basic Principles of Healthy Eating (E/S tip sheets)
Banner graphic: Eating Well |
National Nutrition Month |
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Articles:
- Boosting Your Willpower
- Building Your Support Network
Training: Balancing Work and Family |
Support & Reinforcement |
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Article: Make Family Time an Active Time (E/S)
Tip sheet: Get Moving! (E/S)
E-mail: Finding Time to Exercise: It’s Easier Than You Think |
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month |
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Articles:
- Eating Right: Time-saving Tips for Planning, Shopping and Food Preparation
- Healthy Eating When Dining Out
- How Can You Snack Smart? Be Choosy!
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Maintain! |
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Manager’s article: Control: An Important Weapon in the Fight Against Job Stress
Poster: When Life Gets Out of Step (E/S)
Self-quiz: Am I a Compulsive Overeater?
Articles:
- So Much Food So Little Time: Addictive Overeating
- When Your Eating Is Out of Control
- Learning From Mistakes and Failures
Training: Building Resilience
E-mail: Managing Your Stress |
Slipped Back? Move Forward Again! |
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Articles:
- Losing Weight for Better Health (E/S)
- The Basic Principles of Healthy Eating (E/S)
Tip sheet: The Basic Principles of Healthy Eating (E/S) |
Remember the Keys to Healthy Weight |
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Articles:
- Finding Time to Exercise: It’s Easier Than You Think (E/S)
- Managing Your Stress (English); 20 Tips to Tame Stress (Spanish)
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Remember the Keys to Healthy Weight |
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Communication tools have been plotted across a one-year time period to help support your employees in working their way through the stages of behavior change—from precontemplation to maintenance. The campaign kicks off with education on the causes of weight gain, benefits of weight loss and how to lead a healthy lifestyle; this fuels the contemplation stage of behavior change and helps build a workplace community/environment of support. The campaign continues to help employees commit to change, take action and maintain their plan as the year progresses. Monthly themes tie in with national observances or seasonal issues as appropriate for relevancy and additional momentum.
Use this as a starting point to design a communication implementation plan for your workforce. Also consider rolling in some ideas from the low-cost tips document provided on the CD in order to enhance the impact of communications with workplace activities and support.
