Sick Employee

Chronic sickness has grown common in the workplace, with more than one-third of employees suffering from at least one chronic health condition.

These diseases, ranging from diabetes and heart disease to arthritis, cancer, Crohn's disease, and a variety of others, show big problems at the workplace.

This author brings decades of personal experience of living and working with chronic illness and managing people challenged by similar health conditions in the competitive world of television news.

Managers and organizational leaders will learn:

-The crucial differences between chronic illness and traditional disease.

-Why chronic illness costs organizations in North America over a trillion dollars a year in lost productivity.

-Why current policies and programs related to employee health are not effective for people with chronic disease.

-The best strategies to engage workers with chronic health conditions.

Employees with a chronic illness will learn:

-How to develop a good relationship with their employer.

-How to fight fatigue.

-How to think and work better when they are sick.

-How to manage their lives to maximize their energy.