wellness4one Enterprise
Wellness Program Integration
Integrating wellness4one into your employee wellness program
wellness4one Enterprise is a comprehensive system that will minimize the record keeping, manual report generation and expertise necessary to provide a robust wellness program to your employees or members.
However, it is just one piece of your overall wellness program and, like all computer systems, is only useful to those who use it.
A recent Harvard Business Review article outlined the six pillars of an effective worksite wellness program:
- Multilevel Leadership
- Alignment
- Scope, Relevance, and Quality
- Accessibility
- Partnerships
- Communications
While some of these facets require leadership and people skills well beyond the abilities of a computer program, wellness4one
can help facilitate them in the following manner.
wellness4one wellness program integration at a glance
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Pillar |
Description |
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Pillar |
Description |
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Multilevel Leadership |
Your employees need to see wellness as a serious matter to the health of the company and
that leaders at all levels of the organization are walking the walk: from the president down to the line
worker. wellness4one provides a corporate portal that can display a snapshot of
all the participating employees. In addition, if the CEO (or any other employee)
wants their own page to share their workout, meal plan, goals or activities, it's just
a few mouse clicks away. The portal provides transparency for the wellness program and can put many
of your resources at the employee's fingertips whenever they want them. |
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Alignment |
If the corporate wellness program is not in alignment with business objectives, it can easily be
overlooked and pushed aside when priorities shift. For a wellness program to be sustainable, it must be
incorporated into the culture of the organization. By providing tools which make your employees
active participants vs. passive observers, wellness4one helps foster an appreciation for health and
wellness as well as the program itself. Regular fitness challenges and scheduled "wellness days" are
a good way to start incorporating wellness into your workers daily lives.
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Scope, Relevance, and Quality |
What all does your wellness program entail? Will you be sending out a newsletter, providing a Health Risk Assessment,
creating a Employee Fitness Challenge, or closely monitoring employee health and fitness using trainers,
dietitians or wellness coaches? The broader the scope, the higher the probability that your employees will
find your offerings relevant. Obviously, smoking cessation programs are hardly relevant to non-smokers.
However, neither the scope or relevance matters if the wellness offering is perceived to be low-quality
since it will simply be ignored. This website was given the name wellness4one to invoke the thought of a broad
wellness offering that is tailored to an individual. Using wellness4one, companies can give their employees
a high-quality, feature-rich system that can be customized to meet their individual needs with personalized workout logs,
meal plans and fitness evaluations.
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Accessibility |
One of the overall goals and metrics of any wellness program is the participation rate.
To achieve substantial participation rates, wellness offerings must be highly accessible to your employees.
This means that you must bring the wellness tools and resources to your employees and make them as user-friendly
as possible. wellness4one was one of the first online resources for employee fitness and had one of the first
iPhone wellness apps available. Not only is wellness4one available to your employees whenever and wherever
they want, through our training partner system, family members who may also be covered under your health plan
may join in. While training partners will not be a member of your company's group, they can use most of the website features
and share some information with the covered employee.
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| Partnerships
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Both internal and external partnerships are critical when creating a successful wellness program.
Internally, you need to create buy-in from the various executives and line managers who will be critical
in implementing the program. You also need to form partnerships with groups such as accounting
who may be measuring the wellness program for return on investment. By definition, wellness programs are comprised of many
disciplines and are generally beyond the scope and capacity of any one person. External partnerships can help bridge gaps and
provide a well-rounded program. wellness4one not only provides features like the automated workout
builder, system-facilitated goal setting and the express calorie log which bring expert quality instruction
to the users fingertips, we also provide advanced reporting to help measure program effectiveness and ROI.
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Communications |
For a wellness program, communications must overcome the natural boundaries preventing it from succeeding:
suspicion of motives, personal apathy, and cultural rigidity to name just a few. Once again, this facet of
the wellness program must be handled in daily communications, meetings and program reviews. wellness4one
facilitates communications with a messaging system, individual and group reports, group web portals with
extendable resource libraries and much more.
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