To some, it's common sense to have a healthy, engaged workforce. Better brand advocacy, customer service, competitive thinking, and meaningful contributions. Some see wellbeing is an ethical or moral imperative: employers and employees work in partnership for mutual advantage. For all employers, it's a practical reality: investing in wellbeing is smart business for the bottom line.

Financial Impact

Why should an enterprise care about wellbeing beyond the traditional HRA metrics and EAP services? Simple: the approach used for the past decades has failed to produce a healthier, more engaged workplace and healthcare employer costs have risen as much as 90% since 2000.

• Presenteeism costs U.S. businesses over $200 billion annually and 60% lost potential productivity.
• Here's the kicker: over $1.6 trillion is spent on annual costs associated with potentially preventable diseases and illness (CDC).

The problem is deeper than just insufficient exercise or eating junk food; it's a lifestyle perspective and lack of understanding about wellbeing in all dimensions of life.

A New Approach.

Want better results? Something different than just quick-fix fitness activities? Our whole-person approach is worth the effort. McKinsey's white paper, Organizational Health: The Ultimate Competitive Advantage reports on a definitive study of 600,000 employees at more than 500 organizations worldwide. Those in the top quartile of organizational health are:

• 2.2 times more likely to have an above-median EBITDA margin,
• 2 times more likely to have above-median growth in enterprise value to book value,
• 1.5 times more likely to have above-median growth in net income to sales.

WellPeople can provide deeper understanding and a fresh perspective for wellbeing. Our program improves engagement and biometrics. We provide your organization with custom, evidence-based support to maximize participation and results with the Wellness Inventory. This has clear financial advantages for your bottom line. We combine education and wellness coaching experience with internal communications and executive coaching expertise.

• eLearning (self-paced and instructor-led)
• Webinars
• Teleconferencing
• On-site Workshops
• Group Coaching
• Individual Coaching

We have two vibrant training programs, Wellness Engagement for Managers and Creating a Culture of Wellness for Executives, Managers, and Employees. These programs are customized for your infrastructure, employee wellness profiles, corporate culture and brand values. To help cultivate alignment of business strategies and learning initiatives, and to gain buy-in throughout your company, we offer these trainings for engagement, tactical action plans and strategic vision.

Wellness Engagement Program - Managers

We work with HR or Wellness Project Managers to define, implement and track successful deployment with our 30-Point Action Plan. This includes our turn-key communication tools or consultation to optimize your existing tools. If you use an HRA, we can connect it to the Wellness Inventory. We focus on motivating and managing behavioral change, incentives, recognition, and rewards for coordinated, dynamic employee engagement.

Managers will have a clear understanding of how to maximize Wellness Inventory's user-friendly tools for participants and robust administration tools and reports. This includes ways to populate the 12 Resource Centers with your workplace activities, partner products, and local services. Or, we can provide resources including gift card partners and wellness products.

Minimum savings-to-cost ratio for workplace wellness programs: 3.5 to 1. American Journal of Health Promotion Minimum ROI combining reduced cost with increased productivity: 6 to 1. Worksite Health Promotion Economic Return Study

We also define how to conduct our experiential workshop templates for health topics and 12 wellness dimensions for a whole person healthy lifestyle. And, your managers will be able to provide metrics that help demonstrate improved ROI.

To ask about Employee Engagement, click here.

Creating a Culture of Wellness Program - Executives, Managers, Employees

More than any time in decades, organizational health and individual wellbeing are imperative for sustained performance success. Positive, substantial impact on the bottom line has been well-documented. This comprehensive course adapts to your schedule and defines a specific path to achieving an authentic culture of wellness within your enterprise. This training suite of three levels includes wellness leadership development and employee wellness advocacy.

The streamlined, intensive structure honors your precious time and consists of on-site workplace evaluation, on-site half-hour interviews with participants, a series of half-hour teleconferences, and twice monthly half-hour follow-up virtual consultation for three months. This includes basic wellness coaching principles and an engagement strategy that help motivate employees to change and embrace improved behaviors for optimal living and performance. Ultimately, your company sharpens its competitive edge.

This unique program is offered from three perspectives relevant to job responsibilities, in three levels that can be taken individually or combined into an integrated plan.

• Level I - Managers
• Level II - Directors and VPs
• Level III - C-Suite Executives

To ask about Creating a Culture of Wellness, click here.

To learn about our advanced Wellness Inventory Coach Certification and advanced Holographic Coaching Practicum, click here. This is praised and used by health professionals including wellness coaches, HR managers, therapists, physicians, and psychologists.

Our Wellness Coach Network can provide ongoing on-site and virtual wellness support for individual employees who may have higher risk factors or choose take advantage of the opportunity for wellness coaching. To learn about our Coach Network, click here.