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Discover how healthy buildings, culture, and people lead to high profitsOrganizations and employees now spend an average of $18,000 per year per employee for health costs, a 61% increase in 10 years. Every indicator projects these costs will double before 2030. This is an unsustainable path. These costs are the tip to an even bigger iceberg, the hidden costs of time out of the office, distraction, disengagement, and turnover. The Healthy Workplace Nudge explains the findings of research on 100 large organizations that have tackled the problems of employee health costs and disengagement in five fresh ways:* Well-being leads to health and high performance* Wake up to the fact that 95% of traditional wellness programs fail to improve health or lower costs* Behavioral economics has become a new powerful tool to nudge healthy behavior* Healthy buildings are now cost effective and produce your strongest ROI to improving health* Leaders who develop healthy cultures achieve sustainable high performance and employee wellbeingIn addition to proving highly effective, these approaches represent a fraction of the cost sunk into traditional wellness and engagement programs. The book explains how to create a workplace that is good for people, releases them to what they do best and enjoy most, and produces great and profitable work.* Find actionable strategies and tactics you can put into use today* Retain happy, productive talent* Cut unnecessary spending and boost your bottom line* Benefit from real-world research and proven practice If you're a leader who cares about the health and happiness of your employees, a human resource professional, or a professional who develops, designs, builds, or outfits workplace environments to improve employee health and wellbeing, this is one book you'll want to have on hand.

A shocking statistic in education reveals that 70% of K-12 teachers work under chronic stress. This revolutionary new book explains how removing stress from the classroom holds the key to improving education. The book also explains what administrators, teachers, parents, and communities can do to help accomplish a stress-free classroom.For years, the expert voices said "disengagement" was the crucial issue behind poor educational environments and results. Naturally, only massive reform could fix it. But what if the enormous restructuring and expenditures attacked the wrong problem?MindShift, an organization that reframes tired and clogged conversations, pushed the old conclusions off the table and started fresh. They gathered diverse leaders in education, leadership, neuroscience, architecture, and wellness in working forums around the nation. These pivotal meetings produced WHOLE, a game-changing approach to education. This book captures the story and details of how the system can be remade for real and lasting benefits to everyone.With the authors' expertise, the book exposes the exhausted and antiquated thinking that led to the present crisis. But, WHOLE also proposes a new era of disruptive change that can produce happier, healthier, and more successful education for the 21st century. The book introduces the outliers, tells the stories, and presents the roadmaps to:* Why teachers should be seen as high-performance athletes, requiring time for recovery and preparation* How schools can become "field hospitals," combining learning with healing* Why space matters, how redesigning and refurnishing schools can eliminate stress and produce learning environments that are more open and inviting* Ways to properly integrate schools within communities, building honest relationships, increasing social capital, and achieving transparency that increases successPacked with real-life examples, new research, and solutions that you can introduce to your own schools, students, and communities, WHOLE shows us how to move schools from the age of stress and insecurity to an age of true educational flourishing.

A clear roadmap for the new territory of education Education in the U.S. has been under fire for quite some time, and for good reason. The numbers alone tell a very disconcerting story: according to various polls, 70% of teachers are disengaged.

The primary focus for a machinist is the machines themselves. This book covers machine tools, such as lathes, milling machines, and spindles, to produce precision metal parts.

Offers information about installing, repairing, and maintaining various types of electric motor. This book covers principles of motor function, choosing and replacing motors, identifying and repairing common problems, and, performing routine maintenance. It helps you to understand both AC and DC motor function and operation.

Helps you work with metal - safely, precisely, efficiently - using tools and techniques. This title features review questions for students, and answers you need on the job. It helps to understand automated machine fundamentals and work with jigs and fixtures and learn the basics of spiral and helix milling, gear cutting, and cam machining.