Taking Care of Employee Emotional Health is Smart Business -Heads Up Business Offers Customized Workplace Behavioral Health-

Success Stories, Inc., a management and marketing consulting firm in Orchard Park, New York since 1990, has launched Heads Up Business as a new service. Heads Up Business offers every company a uniquely crafted behavioral health array of services to meet

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Taking Care of Employee Emotional Health is Smart Business -Heads Up Business Offers Customized Workplace Behavioral Health-

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Buffalo, New York, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) April 7, 2011 --Success Stories, Inc., a management and marketing consulting firm in Orchard Park, New York since 1990, has launched Heads Up Business as a new service. Heads Up Business offers every company a uniquely crafted behavioral health array of services to meet the needs of their workforce.

Depression is now the primary reason employees are not coming to work. According to reports from Mental Health America, depression is as costly as heart disease or AIDS to the US economy, costing over $43.7 billion in absenteeism from work (over 200 million days lost from work each year), lost productivity and direct treatment costs. Depression tends to affect people in their prime working years and may last a lifetime. This fact includes those caring for a family member with a severe depression. Older adults have the highest rate of suicide and, in ever-increasing numbers are increasing abuse of alcohol and misuse of medication. Many employees have their aging parents living with them or they serve as the primary caregiver. The employee, a spouse or child may also have mental illness. This sense of family obligation can lead to missing work days or being distracted at work which impacts productivity, and, in some settings, overall safety.

President, Tom McNulty – a consultant with a long track record in behavioral health services and advocacy, created Heads Up Business.

The new service will offer workplace education, executive consultation on matters such as mergers, downsizing, reorganization, human resource policy development and intervention and support with treatment placement. Research indicates that mergers, changes in leadership, acquisitions, and project team development matters have better outcomes when a behavioral expert is brought in to the planning from the beginning. But embracing workplace behavioral health is still new and yet the benefits can save money on workers' compensation, absenteeism, safety, employee retention and medical utilization while reinforcing employee value.

“I gets calls every week from friends and business colleagues about changes within their company that employees are resisting, getting an employee linked to the right therapist or what to do with an angry executive who is valuable to the company, but is causing serious problems. These scenarios are happening in every business in our community. The cost to reach out and help an employee is far less than replacing them. This is not new information, yet in this economy we must protect our greatest resources. In most organizations, that resource is your employees,” McNulty stated.

McNulty has more than 30 years experience including many years in senior management and as a therapist for years in Florida. While serving as vice president of marketing at BryLin Hospitals, McNulty created Progressive Corporate Care, an employee assistance program. He hosts a weekly radio program where he addresses these issues often. Spotlight on Health is in its eighth year on WJYE-FM.

Heads Up Business' fee structure will include fee for service and annual contracts based on the size of the workforce. "For many companies this will be a better alternative than an employee assistance program. Heads Up Business is much more personal and cost-effective than what a business might currently be offering. I often hear companies drop programs because of cost and utilization issues. While I understand those choices, I believe a proactive program can be extremely effective. We want companies to embrace the belief and value statement that employees, in emotional harmony and balance, are productive employees and productive employees improve company bottom lines,” McNulty said.

Heads Up Business is offered through Success Stories, Inc. For more information, call (716) 481-4578 or visit www.successstoriesinc.net. Heads Up Business can be found on Facebook.

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