Wellness

Building A Sustainable Wellness Culture

Wellness programs have become a common element of North American business over the last decade. The effectiveness of current programs is in serious question.  Low participation rates plague these programs.  Some programs offer incentives for key health milestones, such as healthcare risk assessments, and these do yield results.  Yet, the results do not always last.  So like a fad diet, we start strong but then revert to old behaviors.

Wellness is also a leadership issue.  Stress at work and lack of engagement are epidemic in the workplace. Negative perceptions of the boss, or the leadership, can add to that stress.  This stress contributes to wellness by fueling bad choices that are often reactionary; smoking, over-eating, drinking, or choosing to relax on the couch rather than take a walk or hit the gym.  And what are leaders doing to communicate and demonstrate that workplace culture, environment, and employees all really do matter?

The missing link is sustainable engagement of the workforce to develop a culture of wellness that leads to real change in both individual lifestyles and in the company culture. And the culture change starts with the leadership.

CSI helps companies realize this sustainable impact by engaging leaders and employees to develop a wellness culture.  CSI understands how to train the leaders, and engage employees … including recognizing their achievements of health and wellness milestones.  Our approach delivers the learning and reinforcement necessary for the leaders, the motivation for employees to get started, the information for all to make health and wellness decisions, and the regular reinforcement and recognition to stick with it.  We define engagement as doing the right thing at the right time for the right reason, even when no one else is looking.  And this applies perfectly to a culture of health and wellness.

The CSI Layered Learning model focuses on application and reinforcement of leadership and health-related information with built in measurement and tracking, so rather than completing a program, individuals are engaged in a process of learning and applying new behaviors.  And this approach to learning requires no more than 15-20 minutes per week from the participants.  The new learning is reinforced by its integration with the recognition program and the overall employee engagement process.

All of this is delivered in a true global fashion on our cloud-based web-technology.

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