Overview

The Bredeson Group LLC provides workplace employee assistance, health promotion and human resources training and consulting. We work with organizations to prevent and manage health, behavioral health, and human resources problems, and to promote energized, healthy workforces. Our mission is to enhance individual and organizational effectiveness through management consultation on the human side of work, and by helping employees to develop people- and personal-management competencies. We define organizational effectiveness as productivity, profitability and high quality work life, which we believe are interrelated.

Some of the workplace issues where we have an impact are:

  • Unhealthy lifestyles resulting in preventable illnesses and associated costs
  • Work/life imbalance and the need for work re-design
  • Workplace and personal stress
  • Substance abuse
  • Work team and customer conflict

Our clients are both employers/unions as well as health care and employee assistance service consultants and vendors. We have consulted to a broad range of public and private sector employer/union clients covering all industries and size organizations. Our business-to-business consultant/vendor clients include employee assistance, work/life, health promotion, medical education, experiential learning, training, trade group and HR consulting organizations.

Areas of Expertise

Our primary areas of subject matter expertise encompass these interrelated areas:

  • Employee assistance programs (EAPs) and member assistance programs (MAPs)
  • Health promotion, patient advocate and demand management programs
  • Work/life, flexibility and work re-design initiatives
  • Drug-free workplace programs and policies
  • Managed behavioral health care
  • Managed medical care, demand management and consumer advocacy
  • People management competencies
  • Customer service
  • Action/experiential learning and outdoor adventure

We believe these areas are both discrete and interrelated, and specialize in consulting to ensure that they interface with each other for smooth, cost-effective service to employees and purchasers.

Bredeson Group Services

Our services encompass consultation (needs assessment, program design, implementation, market research, product development, evaluation) and employee/supervisory education (training, facilitation, coaching and writing). Our educational and consulting activities encompass web site development in addition to traditional modes of service delivery.

The following are representative engagements:

  • An employer wishes to implement an integrated EAP and work/life program
  • A public utility would like to integrate health promotion and demand management into its health plan
  • A manufacturing company wants to assess the quality of and employee satisfaction with its health maintenance organizations
  • A public health department seeks customer service training, coaching and consulting to establish service standards
  • A work/life vendor requires assistance in writing content for its web site’s human resource manager community
  • An EAP vendor is offering a seminar to corporations dealing with dislocation out their offices in the post-9/11 period and needs a training leader’s guide
  • A health promotion company would like to conduct a train-the-trainer sexual harassment seminar

The Bredeson Group’s Distinguishing Traits

Our distinguishing traits can be summarized:

  • Integrity, professionalism and service
  • Technical and communication (writing, speaking, training) proficiency
  • A concern for employee/consumer advocacy and business interests, and a belief that they go hand in glove
  • Large firm experience, small firm flexibility
  • "Big picture thinking", detail-oriented execution
  • Expertise and creativity