WorkExcel.com is owned by DFA Publishing & Consulting, LLC. We are located near Charleston, South Carolina. We offer products to assist workplace and workforce management professionals concerned about employee behavioral issues and exposures in the workplace, reducing associated risk, improving supervisor skills, and enhancing positivity in the work environment.

We started operations in 1994 by publishing the FrontLine Supervisor newsletter. It is still one of our most popular products. It is an editable, reproducible, and e-mailable publication that educates managers, supervisors, and team leaders in how to use the organization's employee assistance program as a resource to help employees improve job performance and deal with personal problems.

It also offers skills education to help supervisors become better managers of themselves and those they supervise. We have written over 1200 questions and answers on the supervisor's role in managing employee behavior and/or using the EAP as a positive, pro-employee, pro-organization management tool.

We offer publications, training products, free informational tools, ideas, and tips to support employers, and those who serve employers with the mission of helping employees remain happy, healthy, and productive. Helping reduce behavioral risk exposures and loss of productivity that flows from it is key to your vision. Counterproductive employee behaviors are influenced by behavioral health conditions, stress, substance abuse, conflicts at work, poor communication, biases, presenteeism, personal troubles, poor leadership, inappropriate and risky behavior, mental health conditions, and employee and institutional reactions and responses to events like violence, trauma, loss, change, and grief.

Our customers include:

• human resource professionals, trainers, and benefits consultants
• employee assistance professionals
• wellness and occupational health professionals
• insurance agents and those who strive to help employers reduce risk
• medical directors of large corporations
  
• safety professionals
• mental health professionals in public or private practice
• organizational development professionals
• small business owners or their office/administrative staff

WorkExcel.com's products and services provide the ability to help more employees, clients, or patients. In many cases, our products allow you to reach their family members and significant others as well. Many products may be branded with logos, edited, posted on websites with appropriate password protection, or shared internally with others as permitted. See or request your product's license for more information. Always speak to us so we can work with you to meet your unique access or distribution needs.

One of the unique aspects of many WorkExcel.com products is the ability to edit or brand material so it works seamlessly with your organization's Web site or educational program. 

Many of our products are offered in several media formats with discounts for a second, lesser costing format. Many of our customers are seasoned professionals in their respective fields with preferences for language used in educational materials or specific terms for health conditions, etc. Not all companies are the same and work cultures differ, so modifications must be made to training materials. Our niche is allow you to do this with WorkExcel.com products.

We give you this control over most products, either at your end after purchase or prior to purchase, by helping you with customization, adding your logo, taking our name off the product, etc.

Reach us at 1-800-626-4327 or 843-884-3632. And don't forget to sign up for the the WorkExcel.com Catalog found here.

Daniel A. Feerst, MSW, LISW-CP, Publisher

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER: 

Dan Feerst, MSW, LISW-CP is publisher of the WorkExcel.com (also sometimes referred to as EAPtools.com). He publisher or author of all content on the Web site, and general manager of DFA Publishing & Consulting, LLC.

Dan Feerst publishes customizable employee newsletters and customizable supervisor newsletters along with many other OD, HR, and EAP training and education products.

Dan Feerst began his employee assistance career in 1978 as a Social Science Officer for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Occupational Alcoholism Program in Langley, VA. Since then, he has served as a staff member or director for some of America's most well-known Employee Assistance and Counseling Programs, including the Kennecott Copper INSIGHT Employee Assistance Program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture 22 Agency EAP Consortium, and Arlington County Government and Public Schools EAP in Arlington, VA.

Dan Feerst has consulted with hundreds of small businesses on helping employees, intervening with substance addicted workers, and how to develop effective alcohol and drug-policies. Dan Feerst speaks nationally and regionally, and has published extensively in employee assistance. He was credited with designing the intervention model recommended for insertion in the U.S. Small Business Administration's Drug-Free Workplace Kit for Small Businesses by the Corporation Against Drug Abuse, a grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Dan Feerst also consults on the subject of small business alcoholism/drug addiction intervention and assisting healthcare treatment providers in work with small businesses in their communities. Mr. Feerst also trains families in the practical approach to non-professionally facilitated, family interventions. Dan Feerst is one most widely read EAP authors in the United States with millions of employees and over 100,000 supervisors reading materials monthly. He is the author and founding publisher of Work Life Excel® newsletter, which was accepted as the health/productivity newsletter for the 12,000 employees of the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Small Business Adminstration, and the U.S. Air Force Academy.