For ALL employers across Ontario - please be advised I am offering REMOTE claims management services and Infection Control surveillance at a REDUCED RATE for the next 30 days to help you through this difficult time. Please PM me if you need help. Share with your employer or your colleagues. Lucie M.H. Fournier RN, COHN(C), BA (Psych)Founder/Workplace Health Strategist With over 30 years of [...]
In Jack Canfield’s book, The Success Principles: How to get from where you are to where you want to be, he talks about a variety of principles, 64 in total, guiding you to get the life you’ve always wanted. In my last 2 blogs, we talked about Success Principle #1 – taking 100% responsibility for your life, along with being clear why you are [...]
Be clear why you are here. You do have a life's purpose and there is a way to find out what it is. All too often we live life one foot in front of the other following a journey that was never ours to begin with. We follow our parents’ wishes, or our good friends’ path or worse yet, we have no direction to [...]
Staff members leave their positions for a variety of reasons, but the number one reason that they STAY and EXCEL is the corporate culture. They are looking for somewhere inclusive, where they feel valued and appreciated for their hard work. According to WhatIs.com, corporate culture is the pervasive values, beliefs and attitudes that characterize a company and guide its practices. You can almost think [...]
You have the power to make anything happen. So, why haven’t you? Find out what Jack Canfield says about it. National Bestseller, Jack Canfield, provides 63 success principles in his book, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where you are to Where you want to Be. His first principle, which is the foundation for the remaining 62 principles, is that we must take [...]
In today’s times, there remains an increase in disability claims throughout Canada, despite the efforts of MANY case managers to reduce absenteeism for employers. We see the increase in health care costs, benefit costs, production costs, overtime and replacement costs throughout organizations. The numbers continue to rise. So why isn’t claims management working? Because…. You NEVER get to the root of WHY an employee [...]
Skyrocketing CostsIncreasing AbsenteeismLack of Internal Expertise The decade or 2 of outsourcing disability management claims may be coming to an end. In the 1990’s, outsourcing was a trendy thing to do. However, today many organizations have decided that it is more economical to hire an internal disability manager. This may be true in the short term but unless you have sufficiently invested in the [...]
We've all heard titles like 'coach' or 'mentor', etc. but what do they really mean? More importantly, what do they offer and why would you need one. In today’s time, there are a lot of ‘titles’ that have little meaning or better yet, bring about ambiguity in what people really do for a living. If you appreciate the work of Robin Sharma, his book, [...]
Have you ever heard of Manuka Honey? It is an incredibly powerful substance created by bees that pollinate the Manuka bush, found only in New Zealand and Australia. Australian researchers have found that this honey is better than all known antibiotics. Why? Because pharmaceutical antibiotics have a short shelf life, in addition to the fact that bacteria tend to become resistant in a short [...]
Have you ever heard of dry skin brushing? It is an excellent way to expel toxins from your body, through gentle lymphatic drainage. Your lymphatic system is a network of capillaries and vessels that carry lymph throughout your body, which acts as part of your immune system. The lymph does not have its own active movement system, so it is only through exercise and [...]
