The document outlines 6 key steps for implementing a successful workplace wellness program:
1. Assess employee health risks through a health screening and questionnaire.
2. Provide individual health reports to identify risks and goals.
3. Offer educational programs and resources to help employees improve health.
4. Use incentives and tracking to motivate participation.
5. Develop a company culture that promotes health.
6. Evaluate outcomes annually through repeated screenings and surveys.
Implementing these steps can lower healthcare costs, increase productivity, and improve employee well-being.
Wellness Inventory for Employee Wellnessstrohecker
Provides an overview for the utilization of the online Wellness Inventory Assessment and Life-Balance Program (www.WellPeople.com) in employee wellness settings.
1. Digital health can help drive engagement
2. Access: People love convenience and connectivity.
3. Mobile interfaces: health information and tools when they need it and are most motivated to connect.
4. Digital engagement: delivery of information in a more cost-effective way
5. Data Capture: assessment tools and tracking of participant behavior
Are you looking to refresh your current workplace wellness program or have you thought about starting a workplace wellness program and don't know where to begin? Check out Workplace Wellness 2.0. In 60 minutes, you'll learn the 10 easy steps to create an inexpensive, community-based, volunteer-managed, thriving wellness initiative. Hope Health's managing editor, Jen Cronin, will walk you through the effective strategy based on the custom publisher's 30-plus years of working with hundreds of organizations and their workplace wellness efforts.
Learning Objectives:
How to begin a new program, or add new life to an existing wellness program, with the Workplace Wellness 2.0 concepts
How to take advantage of inexpensive, free and readily available resources to power your wellness program
How to create a program WITH employees vs. FOR employees.
About The Presenter
Jen Cronin
Managing Editor
Hope Health
An avid runner and foodie, Jen's goal is to help others embrace — and enjoy — a healthful lifestyle by creating inspiring, engaging, and fun content that focuses on simple ways people can take care of their mind, body, and spirit. Jen has more than 18 years of writing, editing, and communications project management experience. She has worked as a health reporter, a public relations specialist at a major medical school, and a marketing communications consultant for a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate before coming to HOPE Health in 2009.
Wellness Inventory for Employee Wellnessstrohecker
Provides an overview for the utilization of the online Wellness Inventory Assessment and Life-Balance Program (www.WellPeople.com) in employee wellness settings.
1. Digital health can help drive engagement
2. Access: People love convenience and connectivity.
3. Mobile interfaces: health information and tools when they need it and are most motivated to connect.
4. Digital engagement: delivery of information in a more cost-effective way
5. Data Capture: assessment tools and tracking of participant behavior
Are you looking to refresh your current workplace wellness program or have you thought about starting a workplace wellness program and don't know where to begin? Check out Workplace Wellness 2.0. In 60 minutes, you'll learn the 10 easy steps to create an inexpensive, community-based, volunteer-managed, thriving wellness initiative. Hope Health's managing editor, Jen Cronin, will walk you through the effective strategy based on the custom publisher's 30-plus years of working with hundreds of organizations and their workplace wellness efforts.
Learning Objectives:
How to begin a new program, or add new life to an existing wellness program, with the Workplace Wellness 2.0 concepts
How to take advantage of inexpensive, free and readily available resources to power your wellness program
How to create a program WITH employees vs. FOR employees.
About The Presenter
Jen Cronin
Managing Editor
Hope Health
An avid runner and foodie, Jen's goal is to help others embrace — and enjoy — a healthful lifestyle by creating inspiring, engaging, and fun content that focuses on simple ways people can take care of their mind, body, and spirit. Jen has more than 18 years of writing, editing, and communications project management experience. She has worked as a health reporter, a public relations specialist at a major medical school, and a marketing communications consultant for a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate before coming to HOPE Health in 2009.
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Numerous federal, state, and private agencies promote studies to address the nation’s obesity epidemic. It is well documented that this unhealthy condition can lead to chronic illnesses that increase health care costs and diminish the quality of life. These issues have a profound impact on an organization including executives, managers, and front-line staff. High incidents of employee turnover and significant mortality and morbidity rates impact productivity, revenue, and organizational growth. S
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6 key steps to a successful wellness program
1. 6 Key Steps
TO A
Successful
Wellness
Program
by Don Hall, DrPH, CHES
2. 6 KEY STEPS TO A SUCCESSFUL WELLNESS PROGRAM2
You certainly know the consequences of not
feeling well, having a headache, or being
stressed out. You’re not very creative or
productive. And life’s not much fun.
On the other hand, if you’re well rested, fit,
and energetic, things are different. You do
your best work, you feel good, and life is great.
What Are
the Benefits
of Wellness?
Companies that have implemented
high-performing corporate wellness
programs have annual healthcare costs
that are $1,800 less per employee than
organizations without such programs.1
3. Don Hall, DrPH, CHES | Wellsource.com 3
Now take these same basic concepts and extend
them to your whole organization. You can quickly
see (and research has shown) that healthy employees:
• Miss less work due to sickness
• Are more productive
• Have lower turnover rates
• Cost their organization less for health care
• Have more positive attitudes about work
A general manager of a large organization recently
wrote me a letter giving his evaluation of their newly
instituted wellness program. He reported, “My
employees look better, feel better, and work better.”
I think he expressed the essence of a good wellness
program.
$1,472
$2,965
$4,458
$5,952
$7,445
$8,938
$10,432
$11,925
$13,418
$0
$3,000
$6,000
$9,000
$12,000
$15,000
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Mean annual per person cost because
of lost productivity
The Cost of Productivity Loss
Source: J Occup Environ Med. 2009;51:283–295
n=28,375workers
Total number of Health Risks for which a Person is At Risk
MeanAnnualCost
LostProductivity The benefits are even more personal to individuals who
participate in a wellness program. As they learn to eat
more nutritious foods, become more active, and cope
better with stress, their quality of life improves. They
feel better about themselves, and they enjoy better
physical and mental health. Everyone wins.
As stated in a recent Harvard Business Review article,2
a
well-run wellness program doesn’t cost an organization
money. It saves an organization money. The authors
showed that for every dollar invested in a well-designed
wellness program, the organization saved $3 to $6 due
to increased productivity and lower healthcare costs. In
the past, wellness programs were often considered to
be a nice extra – not a strategic imperative. But today,
the question is no longer, “Does it make good business
sense to have a wellness program?” Rather it’s, “What is
the best way to design an effective wellness program for
my organization?”
Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine.
Number of health risks per person
Lost productivity
due to poor health
practices can cost
a company 2 to 3
times more than even
healthcare claims.
In a large study of
28,375 employees, the
average estimated
cost due to lost
productivity from
poor health practices
was over $3,000 per
employee per year.3
Healthy employees
cost less!
4. 6 KEY STEPS TO A SUCCESSFUL WELLNESS PROGRAM4
The Steps
Creating a culture of health can have a profound and
positive influence on a company. That’s just one of
the six key components or “best practices” in a worksite
wellness program. Think of the following as your six
key steps to wellness success.
Step 1.
Assess the health of your group.
We recommend that companies start by offering
a health and lifestyle assessment along with a
health screening. The easy way to do this is to use a
comprehensive Health Risk Assessment (HRA). This
helps individuals identify their real health needs, and
learn how to reduce their risks and get healthier. It also
provides motivation to get started.
An assessment also helps an organization identify
the most common heath needs of its employees, then
plan relevant interventions. Finally, an assessment
establishes a baseline that documents change. This is
crucial. If you can’t measure improvement, you won’t
know if your program is effective.
An example of a comprehensive health and lifestyle
assessment is the Wellsource® Personal Wellness
Profile™. This HRA is easy to administer either online
or as a written questionnaire. Contact a local hospital
or lab to arrange a simple screening program – one that
tests blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, and body
mass index. You could also include a fitness test like a
one-mile walk.
Step 2.
Discover the results.
The HRA should give each participant a confidential,
comprehensive personal report that shows the results
of the assessment. The Personal Wellness Profile™,
for example, creates individual risk profiles for heart
health, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, stress and coping,
weight, nutrition, fitness, and safety.
It’s important to help participants understand their
personal report and show them how to use the
information to make needed changes. This can be done
in several ways:
• In small group evaluation sessions with a
health educator
• In one-on-one sessions with a health coach
• By viewing a video that explains the report and
gives direction for reducing risks
Wellsource provides resources for implementing all of
these discovery sessions. The desired result is for people
to identify their health needs and get support setting
personal goals for what they want to improve.
5. Don Hall, DrPH, CHES | Wellsource.com 5
Step 3.
Intervene and educate your
participants.
This next step is critical. After individuals set their
goals, they’ll need resources to help them achieve their
goals. For example, offer programs on weight loss,
smoking cessation, strength training, learning how to
lower cholesterol and blood pressure, improving eating
habits, coping better with stress, kicking dependencies,
etc. This step may seem daunting. But there are ways to
make it manageable and effective:
• Provide online interventions and other learning
opportunities. Wellsource offers a variety of online
interactive learning systems for weight management,
stress reduction, better nutrition, getting more sleep,
and starting an exercise program. Wellsource also
has an extensive Online Wellness Center™ with
more than 2,000 articles and guidelines for lowering
cholesterol, eating more healthfully, dealing with
depression, stopping smoking, helping with alcohol
problems, and more.
• Present health classes. Invite proven health
organizations – such as Weight Watchers® – to come
on site to offer health classes. If they can’t come to
your workplace, make a list every month of local
health classes, and encourage your employees to
attend. Check with hospitals, the local American
Heart Association, and other health agencies. If
classes have an attendance fee, split the fee with your
employees. Do the same for employees who join a
local fitness center.
• Provide health coaches who can call participants
and give professional support and advice. This is very
helpful for people who are dealing with complicated
problems such as diabetes, and for those who can’t
readily attend local classes. When needed, health
coaches can be arranged through Wellsource.
• Offer self-study wellness guides. This approach
appeals to busy people. Examples include the many
WellAssured® Guides to Better Health available from
Wellsource. Topics include A Healthy Heart, Living
with Diabetes, Stress Management and Emotional
Wellbeing, Quit Smoking, and nine other titles.
Make a library of health videos available for people to
download or borrow. Keep a variety of self-education
materials on hand to distribute at employee meetings.
• Encourage medical follow-up. Encourage anyone
with high risks (e.g., high cholesterol, high blood
pressure, elevated blood sugar, depression) to see a
doctor for evaluation and personal guidance.
Helping your co-workers improve their
productivity and quality of life offers one of the
most rewarding experiences of your career.1
6. 6 KEY STEPS TO A SUCCESSFUL WELLNESS PROGRAM6
Keeping people motivated and engaged throughout the year is vital
for a successful wellness program. Offering incentives can do this.
Choose incentives that are particularly meaningful to your employees.
Companies usually give prizes, awards, or cash to participants who
achieve their goals.
One of the best and most effective incentives is a discount on the portion
of health insurance premium that employees pay. Those who participate
in wellness activities and/or reach specific health goals (e.g., complete a
certain number of aerobic miles per month or attend a class) would pay
up to 20 percent less than those who don’t. One large company reached
over 80 percent participation by offering a $500 reduction in health
insurance contributions per year to employees who actively participated
in the wellness program.2
A monthly health communication acts as another reminder and
motivator. For example, the Wellsource newsletter WellNotes® helps
people stay on top of the latest research and guidelines for healthy living.
It also includes a monthly Health Challenge™ that engages participants
in healthy lifestyle pursuits 12 times a year.
Having a high participation rate is critical to the success of any wellness
program. Aim to have 80 to 90 percent of employees complete the HRA.
This will naturally increase participation in your intervention programs.
Remove any barrier to participation that you can think of. For example:
• Be sure the company managers support the program.
• Let all employees know in writing that no personal individual health
data is shared with management – only anonymous group data.
• Make it easy to participate. Have testing on site, interventions on site
and online, and self-study programs available.
• Invite people throughout the year to participate in interventions.
• Provide Lunch & Learn presentations on health topics.
• Keep the program fun.
Step 5.
Create a culture of
health.
As you create a social norm in your
organization to eat healthfully, be
physically active, and not smoke, you
also create a powerful environment
for change. Your cafeteria can provide
healthy meals and table-top tent
messages with healthy eating tips.
Encourage employees to take the
stairs, walk or bike to work, or take
activity breaks at noon. Management
needs to actively and visibly
participate too. Put policies in place
that support a healthy environment.
For example:
• Provide flex time for exercise.
• Make the work place smoke-free.
• Promote safety.
• Provide healthy snacks at all
meetings and in vending machines.
• Provide water coolers and healthy
drinks.
• Provide bicycle racks and showers.
• Give rewards and recognition to
employees who accomplish health
and fitness goals.
• Set a company budget for wellness.
• Subsidize health insurance premi-
ums for those who participate in
your wellness program.
• Reimburse employees for half the
cost of health classes they complete.
• Arrange a special price for gym
memberships.
• Provide an annual Wellness Day to
promote good health and feature
new wellness activities.
Make wellness the buzzword
in your organization.
Step 4.
Motivate and track participation.
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1. Assess
YOUR POPULATION
2. Discover
THE RESULTS
3. Intervene
AND EDUCATE YOUR
PARTICIPANTS
5. Create
A CULTURE OF
HEALTH
4. Motivate
AND TRACK
PARTICIPATION
6. Measure
AND EVALUATE
OUTCOMES
Step 6.
Measure and evaluate outcomes.
It’s good to evaluate your wellness program once a year.
Ask your participants what they liked about it, what
was most helpful or least helpful, and what could be
done to make the program better next year.
It is also extremely valuable to repeat the HRA and
health screening each year. The Personal Wellness
Profile™ includes a Group Progress Report for admin-
istrators. It shows the areas where employees improved,
and documents the organization’s overall success.
Management will be very interested in this report.
Participants also receive a personal progress report. Did
their overall wellness score improve? Did their health
age improve – that is, are they “younger” this year than
last year? Are their blood tests, BMI, and blood pressure
readings better than last year? The report answers these
questions. It also gives them the information they need
to plan and set goals for the coming year. It helps
them see how they’ve been successful.
And nothing motivates people
more than success.
Summary
By actively providing wellness activities and developing
a culture of health at your organization, you are
investing in the greatest asset in your company –
the health and well-being of your staff. It will pay rich
dividends in goodwill, increased productivity, and
ultimately lower healthcare costs.
By offering worksite wellness, you are turning from a
reactive approach to healthcare (paying high costs to
treat preventable heart attacks, cases of cancer, and
diabetes) to a proactive approach of prevention and
health promotion. Remember: If you do nothing,
healthcare costs will continue to skyrocket. Be part of
the solution. Be proactive.
For resources to help you initiate an effective wellness
program, contact Wellsource at 1-800-533-9355 or visit
www.wellsource.com. We’ll show you how.
8. 6 KEY STEPS TO A SUCCESSFUL WELLNESS PROGRAM8
About the Author
Dr. Don Hall has made good health his life’s work. He began his career as
a health educator – teaching community members, nurses, and college
students about nutrition and health. In the 1970s, Dr. Hall developed
wellness programs for school districts and a worksite wellness program for
a health insurance company – one of the first programs in the nation.
Seeing a great need for health promotion in the business sector, Dr. Hall
founded Wellsource, Inc., a company that would help individuals and
groups arrive at their wellness, fitness, and nutrition goals. Wellsource now
works with nearly 1,000 corporations and government agencies worldwide.
Dr. Hall serves as an industry expert and continues to lead the company
into an era when being healthy is not only a good idea, it’s good business.
An active fitness and health enthusiast, Dr. Hall has also completed
19 marathons; bicycled across five states, as well as Germany,
Austria, and Switzerland; and has climbed to Camp 1 on Mt. Everest.
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To start your successful wellness
program, call 1-800-533-9355
or visit wellsource.com