Meeting the Needs of Employers and Employees with Customized Wellness Programs [Podcast Series]

“I learned by doing and the employee wellness programs I learned by doing in partnership with my human resources director and partners because corporate wellness lives and breathes in human resources. It's considered a benefit for a workforce. And as such, it needs to be aligned with the mission vision of the human resources department, of course the C-suite and leadership teams, as to what it is that should be provided to a workforce.”

“Let's talk to the C-suite and see what they know to be the truth of what it is that employees are facing challenges in with their health and wellness. And or, very important, what are the employee interests. And if we don't, if we didn't feel like we had a good pulse for that, then we would ask to add questions around health and wellness interests in the PRC survey, which is a standardized survey.”

“And one more layer is wellness ambassadors. So you've got this working committee, it's part of the internal stakeholder group, but the wellness ambassadors or wellness affiliates, whatever you'd like to call them, they are the workers in each and every department that can take the initiatives to each staff meeting to be the cheerleader, kind of to get the message out and get people excited.”

“I think the most impactful by virtue of number of lives touched, which was one of our metrics, and improved health metrics, engagement and the feeling of having energy in a workforce and that if you weren't involved, you might be missing something creating that kind of stir and excitement was religiously over and over—it didn't matter how many themes we put on it, how many different ways we delivered it—it was truly our walking program…”

“I think employees’ voice equals employee choice. And because employees are looking for some of the things that improve mental health, meditation, breathing, yoga, Pilates, walking in nature, forest bathing, hiking, cold plunge. These are all gaining a great deal of interest and momentum. A lot more interest in outdoor activity, hiking, biking, walking, very exciting times. So it I think we're going to see a lot of innovation in corporate wellness in these next several years. Because what we've done in the past will maybe not necessarily suit employees’ needs with this changed work environment and changed interests of our consumers which drive a lot of what it is that we need to provide.”

“And I think social fitness and reducing the loneliness epidemic, which has been addressed by our Surgeon General, we could do so much more with the workplace as a hub of health and wellness. We just need to innovate, and cross some bridges, build some bridges.”

“There's huge opportunity to take what it is that you do in your fitness business and bring it to corporate to employer sites. And it would be a huge help to an HR director to know you're in their community, and that you can help them, be their wellness partner, to provide all the things that employees are looking for and asking for because they don't have time and they don't know where to find us, the fit pros, right?”

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