Why wellness strategies fail and how to make them work
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The document discusses the failure of traditional wellness strategies and offers a new approach focusing on personal behavior change as the key to success. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the reasons for change, creating tailored strategies, and implementing resilience training to sustain wellness. The document outlines actionable steps for organizations to improve employee wellness and fund their initiatives through cost savings.
Why wellness strategies fail and how to make them work
- 1. Why wellness strategies fail ....... and how to make them work Rod Warner rod@buildingresilience.co.za www.buildingresilience.co.za http://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingresilience 082 456 0819
- 2. Organisational wellness indices are alarming OvertimeOvertime SickleaveSickleave TTurnoverurnover
- 3. The business case is compelling
- 4. Pressure for wellnessPressure for wellness professionals to doprofessionals to do something!!something!!
- 9. A vicious cycle: nothing changes
- 10. The pressing orgainsational wellness needs remain....... which leads to ...................
- 13. How can you break out of this cycle?
- 14. We need: - different strategydifferent strategy - employee- employee behaviour changebehaviour change
- 15. New approach needed please! The wellness strategy must create and sustain personal change
- 16. 1. Create an alternative wellness1. Create an alternative wellness strategy:strategy: 1. Identify impact of wellness problems 2. Select the indices to measure 3. Create base line measures 4. Develop strategy to improve the measures 5. Fund wellness budget through savings
- 18. The key to success:The key to success: Ensure employees understandEnsure employees understand why, what and how to changewhy, what and how to change
- 19. Why and whatWhy and what to change HowHow to sustain change
- 20. 2. Help each employee understand why and whatwhy and what they should change 1. Education tailored to audience 2. Tight integration between information, testing and individualised health plan 3. Regular testing and feedback 4. Access to corrective processes 5. Incentivise
- 21. Warning……..Warning…….. for 50 years we have known : •Knowledge does not equal behavior change •Desire does equal behavior change •Even when we get behaviour change, it is often short lived
- 22. 3. Help each employee understand howhow to create and sustain change: 1. Personalised change strategy 2. Train in resilience tools
- 23. 3.1 Create a personalised change strategy (How) ... for example weight loss
- 24. At the moment he has a very strict diet that works for a period...... and then........
- 26. ...pigging out, feeling...pigging out, feeling like a failure and thenlike a failure and then abandoning the dietabandoning the diet
- 27. An alternate strategy is needed to make and sustain behaviour change
- 28. Weight loss Step 1: What? Lose 20kg weight Step 2: Doing now? Very strict diet leading to hunger followed by binging Step 3: Fear if did opposite? Only dramatic diets will work for me Step 4: Assumption? I lack will power to stick to a diet for the long run Step 5: Small step? Test the assumption with a gentle and gradual diet for a short period
- 29. 3.2 Train resilience tools (How)
- 30. Life meaning: meaning making and strengths Self management: perspective, positive feelings and realistic optimism Coping style: action orientated and social support Elements of resilience
- 31. •Meaning making •Using strengths •Maintaining perspective •Generating positive feelings •Having realistic optimism •Reaching out to others Resilience tools:
- 32. • Coping with change • Keeps stress positive ........ sustains wellness behaviour change Building Resilience tools enable:
- 33. In summary: 1. Link strategy to improvement in indices 2. Fund budget by savings 3.Focus on the why and what of personal wellness change 4. Provide resilience training in the how of sustaining personal wellness change You are our heroes!
- 34. Why wellness strategies fail ....... and how to make them work Rod Warner rod@buildingresilience.co.za www.buildingresilience.co.za http://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingresilience 082 456 0819