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How Your Organization Can Encourage Employee Wellness

Employee wellness is a crucial factor in determining the overall health of an organization. Encouraging and supporting healthy habits not only leads to a happier and healthier workforce, but can also have a significant impact on productivity, employee retention, and your organization's bottom line.
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6 Key Elements of a Successful Wellness Program

A well-designed wellness program can improve employee health and wellbeing, reduce absenteeism, and increase productivity. However, not all wellness programs are created equal. A successful wellness program champions a cultural shift that aligns with the organization's mission, values, and goals. Al...
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4 Ways to Promote Wellness in the Workplace

From attracting top talent to improving employee morale and reducing turnover, there are many reasons to promote wellness in the workplace. Not only can better mental and physical wellness improve employees’ quality of life, but wellness can also have a significant positive impact on their work perf...
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Engagement vs. Participation

Employers often use the terms “participation” and “engagement” interchangeably when describing the outcomes of their wellbeing program or resources. Wellvation views participation and engagement separately, with each providing value in understanding whether the wellbeing program is working.
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Workplace Wellness ROI

Productivity, health care costs, and workplace resilience are big ROIs of workplace wellbeing. But they are also end-stage outcomes of highly effective wellbeing programs. To get here, companies need to reach a tipping point of employee engagement where lifestyle risks are being reduced and health i...
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Why Employees Don’t Participate

Employee wellness participation first requires employees to commit to lifestyle changes. Accordingly, humans must first generate the energy and motivation to change up routines and then commit to change. Since we are biologically wired toward routine, and not change, igniting wellbeing participation...
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Personalized Wellbeing

Personalization is certainly the buzz in employer-wellbeing. Employers look for it. Vendors claim to do it. But what does it mean for capabilities, offerings, and experiences? Does setting your own goals or picking activities equal personalization.
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We’ve Got It Backwards

Employees want workplaces to prioritize their health, yet engagement continues to lag in many employer-sponsored wellbeing programs. Despite significant organizational investments in targeting strategies and incentivizing participation, organizations struggle to implement programs that are highly va...
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