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August 15, 2017Corporate Wellness
Over the past several months, I’ve shared the foundational building blocks of creating successful workplace wellness programs. We’ve talked about: why you should care about corporate wellness; the types of programs that work best; creating a wellness-centered culture; soliciting and utilizing feedback; and the importance of sustainability. My hope is that by now you have […]
All Dietitians Are Not Created Equal A lot of people aren’t completely sure about what a dietitian does. Some people think we are the food police. Some people think we are going to take away all of their cupcakes. Some people think that just because they had a bad experience with one dietitian, they will […]
Four Elements of a Sustainable Wellness Program Wellness programs are useless if they are unsustainable. People are well-equipped to yo-yo diet without the help of their employer. Your best hope for success in creating effective programs is to plan with longevity and sustainability in mind. If the program you create is not sustainable on […]
As with anything worth doing, analysis of success and failure is important. When it comes to improving your health, refining the process is key to landing on an approach that works for each individual. Even with a strategy and following a plan, you learn things along the way that help you get to a better […]
Creating a company’s mission and vision statements is harder than you think. Encapsulating all you hope to instill in your patrons, all your wishes for them, and capturing that essence in one sentence takes real soul searching, probably some coaching and a lot of research. But at the end of the day, wellness entrepreneurs want […]
I just got back on the grid. Over the weekend, I was at Camp Grounded, a four-day digital detox summer camp for adults. I first heard about Camp Grounded in summer 2015 through a friend’s Facebook post (slightly ironic but I guess they knew where to find us!). In that short video, I learned that […]
Wellness Programs: What Works? The benefits of worksite wellness programs for employees and employers have been discussed over the past five articles. Are you ready to dive right in? Before you move forward, consider these questions: What should the program actually look like What does the research tell us about best practices? and the big question that […]
We all know the scene – November 1 strikes, eggnog starts flowing, and our social calendars start to fill with holiday parties. We make our favorite indulgent foods and eat the leftovers all week. We have access to treats almost 24/7 from leftover Halloween candy (on sale!) to Aunt Pat’s famous coconut haystack cookies. Even […]
Remember Sally? She’s our friend we met two months ago in “Wellness Programs at Work: Why Bother?” who, as a general rule, leads a sedentary lifestyle and eats take-out mindlessly most days of the week. We talked then about the reasons we owed it to Sally to have a worksite wellness program in place, why […]
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