The Designing Leaders team is taking a few days off for the holidays, and hopefully you are, too. Whether you celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday, or merely as a chance for family and friends to come together, or even if you don’t celebrate it at all, enjoy the upcoming weekend.

If you have been reading this blog for any length of time you know we preach the benefits to your workforce of a healthy, active lifestyle. Usually, that preaching comes the day after I run a marathon somewhere (or write a book about running marathons somewhere), but it’s a message that’s good to hear any […]

One thing we often notice among employees is that they often spend a lot of their social time with their co-workers. There is an advantage there, of course, because it can make the workplace a much more inviting and engaging place if your employees are friends as well as being co-workers. Plus, let’s face it, […]

Healthy employees are more likely to be happy employees, and if nothing else, healthy employees are more likely to actually show up for work. Many folks try to stay healthy in the short-term — look at all the people you see wearing masks on public transit — but a long-term approach to health can not […]