Thriving While Living with Chronic Illness: How to Support Employees with Chronic Health Conditions

Chronic illness can shake your world. One moment you're perfectly healthy, enjoying life. Then, the next moment, you're seriously ill and struggling to do the simplest tasks. Managing the demands of the modern workplace can be quite a challenge for employees with a chronic illness, like heart disease, type 2 diabetes or arthritis. It can also be tricky managing these employees with chronic illnesses.

The author brings decades of personal experience of living and working with...
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Chronic illness can shake your world. One moment you're perfectly healthy, enjoying life. Then, the next moment, you're seriously ill and struggling to do the simplest tasks. Managing the demands of the modern workplace can be quite a challenge for employees with a chronic illness, like heart disease, type 2 diabetes or arthritis. It can also be tricky managing these employees with chronic illnesses.

The 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