1. What is mindfulness in the workplace? When you practice mindfulness at home or mindfulness in the workplace, you'll be a better version of you! Your cellphone is buzzing, your work phone is ringing, and your boss asks you into her office.…
WellSteps would love to be your wellness vendor, but if not, we want to make sure you still choose a good one. When you pick a good wellness vendor, your employees will love it and your leadership will get positive…
Corporate health and wellness programs are more popular than ever. We say they fail when they fall short of accomplishing their goals and objectives. Failure can be defined in many different ways. For example, a corporate health and wellness program could…
When you design company wellness programs there are two basic options: use an outside vendor or develop your program internally. Regardless of the option you choose, there are several steps you need to take to have a successful program. How…
How One Broker Got Lower Insurance Rates Playing the Wellness Card This is a story about a real brokerage firm that made the decision to embrace wellness. It started with the question, "Why offer a wellness program," and what happened as a…
Here's a quick peek at the reasons why school wellness programs are a smart school strategy. There are 3.7 million people who work in schools. Schools are the single largest employer in the United States. Even the federal government only…
To have any effect on the bottom line, employee health and wellness programs need to be able to improve employee health behaviors. Without improvements in nutrition, physical activity, controlling stress, and other health behaviors, most of the chronic diseases employees…
Outcomes-based Wellness Programs All wellness programs are outcomes-based, or at least they should be. The phrase outcomes-based wellness program may be confusing. Most employers start a wellness program to improve employee health, improve employee productivity, or reduce their health care costs.…
The health and chronic disease prevention centers of America are now America's worksites. There's not a single group in America that does more to promote health and improve the health behaviors of our population than worksites. Our current medical system…
Want to know how to transform your employee wellness program into an engagement machine? Here's a few employee wellness program ideas and tips that may take your program to the next level. Do you know why only 11% of Californians…
