Do you know why only 11% of Californians smoke while over 26% of the adults in Kentucky smoke? Here's a hint: it has to do with creative employee wellness strategies and health promotion ideas. California has less than half of…
Tough Wellness Questions Every Broker Needs to Know Before they Begin a Wellness Program As a broker or consultant, your role in the implementation of employee wellness programs has probably grown in recent years. Your clients want wellness and you want…
Why Use a Corporate Wellness Consultant? Wellness programs have an extremely difficult task of reducing employee-related expenses and improving productivity by improving employee health. Behavior change is the key to improved health, yet changing human behavior is extremely hard to…
In a typical group of 100 employees, 29 have obesity, 21 have high blood pressure, 17 have high cholesterol, and 9 have elevated blood glucose. These are the average health risks for most adults. Some worksites are worse than others.…
How to Corporate Employee Wellness Programs Use Incentives to Save Money? For three years a school district implemented a comprehensive worksite wellness strategy. This blog summarizes the research that shows how elevated health risks were reduced and medical costs lowered…
Employee Wellbeing Programs: ROI vs VOI These days there is a lot of talk about wellness ROI (return on investment) vs VOI (value on investment) of employee wellbeing programs. Some have suggested that wellness ROI is no longer important…
Every wellness program should be using incentives. They are an important part in helping employees stay motivated to make long-term behavior change. But sometimes wellness incentive programs become THE wellness program. The tracking, awarding, and processing of the incentives consumes…
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 to Get the Most from Corporate Health Coach Companies Of all the activities that happen within a wellness program, health coaching is the most expensive. Any time employees spend considerable time one-on-one with a health professional there will be a…
Employee wellness programs can use a variety of strategies to help improve employee health. I've been working in the wellness industry for 30 years and I've pretty much seen it all. Here are 50 wellness plan examples for physical activity,…
