Download Free Items from HandoutsPlus.com for Helping Employers Deal Anxious Employees and Parents Concerned about Back to School Issues

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Dan Feerst - Publisher of Workplace Wellness Materials Releases Free Handouts to Human Resource Managers to Calm Employee Anxiety and Support Parents Worried about Back to School Issues of COVID-19

 

This information is meant to help employees who are parents better manage
 their anxiety, worry, and stress associated with managing their children
going back to school in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, August 12, 2020, The COVID-19 Pandemic has been the cause of a tremendous amount of anxiety. It can and does, hurt employee performance. Information leads to knowledge, and knowledge eases anxiety and the fear factor. Many employers have cut their Employee Assistance Programs (EAP’s) in favor of 800 hotlines, which are not as effective.

 

Dan Feerst, author and publisher of HandoutsPlus.com, realized that he is in a position to offer this free information better than others because he is in the business of providing a plethora of Workplace Wellness Materials. These free items were prepared originally for employee assistance programs nationwide, but he is concerned few workers would gain access to these materials. They are therefore letting any human resource manager, workforce management professional, or CEO download them free without cost or obligation.

 

Included in the free package is a PowerPoint on managing stress and anxiety associated with the Coronavirus. Designed for employees are: reproducible and editable handouts in PDF, MS Publisher, and MS Word, a Web video for employers based on the PowerPoint, and a  reproducible/editable handout to distribute to employees who are parents to help them cope with stress and anxiety related to their children going back to school. The anxiety level of parents sending their kids off to school is through the roof, these resource handouts should help lessen their fears.

 

Dan Feerst wants employees to know that they have the option of receiving other free human resource related workplace wellness tip sheets regularly distributed without cost or obligation. An MP4 video on helping employees face the unique challenges of working remotely is also available.

 

They offer professionally authored handouts and tip sheets on workplace wellness topics and supervisor skills, reducing risk, improving employee’s assistance program functioning, and helping employees be healthy, happy, and productive. The Frontline Employee Human resources newsletter has been very well received by employers.

 

About Dan Feerst, Publisher:

 

Dan Feerst is the most widely read author on employee assistance program (EAP) content for supervisors. He has authored over 3,900 EAP and related wellness articles for FrontLine Supervisor and FrontLine Employee. Monthly readership of FrontLine Newsletters totals over three million employees. Subscribers include the U.S Army, the U.S. Congress, Universities, Hospitals, School systems, and industries.

 

FrontLine Supervisor has published continuously since 1993. FrontLine Employee has published continuously since 2001. You can find these publications on their other Web site WorkplaceNewsletters.com. You can find 220 other workforce management, HR, and EAP

resources and products at WorkExcel.com.

 

To obtain the free information package visit www.handoutsplus.com and click on “Free Tip Sheet”.

 

Media Contact:

 

HandoutsPlus.com

Attn: Media Relations

3601 West Higgins Drive, Suite 200

Mount Pleasant, SC 29466

800-626-4327

publisher@workexcel.com

 

 

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The workplace wellness newsletter is still under-appreciated for its value in reducing human and financial losses in the workplace. I think most companies separate wellness newsletter topics away from other education and training that reduces human behavioral risk in the workplace, and this a mistake. It's why I encourage using some newsletter device that combines all behavioral risk reduction content in one source document. I am beginning to think that reducing employee behavioral risk and exposures is better served by small pieces of ongoing, easily digested information, ongoing awareness information, and training in addition to whatever one-shot training topics are offered or mandated by the company. I agree with the wellness newsletter premise that it is a tool to support management first and employees second. This does not make it incompatible with helping or even entertaining employees. However, anything that a business organization institutes should be to its benefit or it is by definition or it is not in conformance with mission and goals of the organization and therefore is improper. The goal of a employee wellness newsletter should be in my opinion--a conduit for education, information, training, awareness to positively influence employees to practice better behaviors that reduce risk, enhances organizational productivity, and improves their personal well-being.