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WHE01: 5 Components of Workforce Health Engagement
Workforce health engagement: improving the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees, their families, and organizational leaders to optimize health outcomes, control medical costs, and...
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WHE02: Wellness Communication & Education: Which Info & Messages Truly Help?...
One of the most common components of a workforce health strategy is wellness communication and education … messages and information to motivate and equip employees and their families to avoid or...
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WHE03: Matching Employees with the Right Hospitals for Advanced/Specialty...
Through EdisonHealth, members of contracting health plans can gain access to heart, valve, spine, and transplant care at some of the highest-performing clinics and health systems in the United States....
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WHE04: Does It Work? An Epidemiologist’s Surprising Answer about Wellness and...
It seems common sense that investing in wellness and other workforce health strategies would be worth all the money and effort that employers are putting into them these days. But what is the actual...
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WHE05: New Tools for Health Care Consumerism | with Clayton Nicholas from...
Health care consumerism is a key part of most employers’ strategies for workforce health engagement. This involves tools, resources, education, and motivation to help employees and family members make...
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WHE06: Healthy Eating in the Workplace | with Alison Acerra from Guckenheimer
Many companies are spending huge amounts of health care dollars paying for treatment of medical conditions caused primarily by poor food choices. Then they spend money on top of that for wellness...
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WHE07: Pitfalls of Workplace Wellness: Does It Do More Harm Than Good? | with...
As we discussed back in episode 4, in our interview with epidemiologist Tom Wilson, it’s a good idea to not have blind faith in wellness vendors, but to have a healthy dose of skepticism. For one...
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WHE08: Boosting Health Engagement with Gamification | with Josh Stevens from...
One of today’s hottest trends in workforce health engagement is gamification. Gamification is the use of tactics inspired by games — especially video games — to engage people. Think about what makes...
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WHE09: What Pepsi’s 7-Year Experiment Teaches about Workforce Health Engagement
Earlier this year, the non-profit research group RAND Corporation released yet another study questioning the return on investment (ROI) of workplace wellness. RAND’s new study found that wellness can...
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WHE10: The 6 Principles (or C’s) of Workforce Health Engagement
In episode 1, Jesse and his colleague Terry Sherwood defined workforce health engagement as improving the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees, their families, and organizational...
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WHE11: Workplace Clinics: How to Implement & Promote Them to Increase Health...
Workplace clinics can promote employee health, reduce medical and hospitalization costs, and even increase productivity and employee engagement. But there are pitfalls that can waste money and even...
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WHE12: Beyond “Biggest Loser” Contests: Creating a True Culture of Health |...
The popular weight-loss reality TV show “The Biggest Loser” has inspired many companies to hold weight loss contests for their employees. People love the idea of experiencing fast weight loss, and the...
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WHE13: How to Move Employees from Awareness to Action
This episode is the first in a two-part series about leading a health behavioral change. Episode 13 focuses on leading a fairly straightforward change, such as influencing employees to get a biometric...
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WHE14: The 6 Drivers of Behavioral Engagement
This episode is the second in a two-part series about leading a health behavioral change. Episode 13 focused on leading a fairly straightforward change, such as influencing employees to get a...
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WHE15: How to Make the Most of Narrow Networks | with Scott Wallace from...
Direct contracts and narrow networks of health care providers offer new ways for employers to control the costs of health care. But many of these arrangements are missing huge opportunities to...
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WHE16: Combining Wellness Programs with Medical Management | with Abby Green...
Jesse and guest Abby Green from HealthCheck360 discuss how to combine wellness initiatives and medical management to drive health improvement and reduce overall benefit costs. HealthCheck360 is a...
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WHE17: The Cost of Medical Errors: Educating Employees about Patient Safety |...
All hospitals are not the same! Many hospitals have much worse rates of infections and medical errors that have a serious effect on employers and their employees, both in terms of financial cost as...
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WHE18: Redefining Chronic Disease Care | with Scott Wallace from Dartmouth
Chronic medical conditions drive more than 75% of health care spending. However, people with a chronic condition typically get care through a health system designed for acute care — fragmented,...
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WHE19: Transitioning to Tobacco-Free Workplaces | with Laura Higginbotham...
Tobacco-free workplaces have become the norm, but what if your company still has older facilities that have permitted smoking and tobacco products for years? You may face serious resistance from...
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WHE20: Does Your Company Make These 6 Common Wellness Mistakes? | with Beth...
Today, more than 80 percent of large and mid-size employers offer wellness programs, and more than two-thirds offer financial incentives to take various wellness steps. However, a large percentage of...
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WHE21: Can Behavioral Economics Solve Your Company’s Health Care Problems? |...
A recent study found that the U.S. lags behind other countries in improving disease prevention and life expectancy. America’s weak link? The workplace, according to the study. But it’s also one of the...
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WHE22: How Well-being Engagement Trumps Wellness | with Doug Stover from Gallup
According to The Gallup Organization, only 24% of employees at companies that offer a wellness program actually participate in it. What’s more, only 12% of employees strongly agree that they have...
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WHE23: Slim-by-Design Workplace: Mindless Eating Solutions for a Healthier...
The best wellness programs are ones people don’t even know they’re doing. That may sound like a pipe dream, but a leading researcher says it’s realistic and effective. A few small changes in the...
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WHE24: Benefits Engagement through Gamification | with Dr. Ann Clark and Erin...
Back in episode 14, we talked about the six drivers of behavioral engagement. One driver is Structural Ability; in other words, make it easy for people to take the recommended actions that will...
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WHE25: For Stronger Motivation, Promote Energy – Not Just Good Health | with...
Making the connection between better health decisions and daily energy levels does far more to change employee behavior than telling them about longer-term health consequences. At most organizations,...
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WHE26: Mobile Platforms for Workforce Health Engagement
If you haven’t yet realized it, there’s been a communication revolution building, and it has now reached the tipping point for workforce health engagement. People are now using mobile devices more...
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WHE27: How to Engage Senior Leaders in Wellness Communications | with Mark...
As with any important initiative, it’s vital to have the CEO and other senior leaders actively supporting workforce health engagement. These executives can help to: Articulate why the initiative is...
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WHE28: Avoiding Workplace Burnout | with Bill Holston
One of the surprising things about workplace burnout is that no one is immune. Even the most engaged, productive, and passionate people can experience burnout — in fact, their dedication may cause...
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WHE29: Behavioral Economics for Business Leaders: Turn Good Intentions into...
The new book, The Power of Fifty Bits: The New Science of Turning Good Intentions into Positive Results, by Bob Nease, PhD, is the first practical guide for business leaders to apply behavioral...
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WHE30: Millennials and Healthcare: How They Experience the System | with...
They’re supposedly young and healthy, but a new study shows that more than half of Millennials report having a chronic health condition. In addition, Millennials struggle how to navigate the health...
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WHE31: Building a High-Performance and Health-Driven Culture at Trek Bikes |...
The organizations that are most successful in building a culture of health begin at the top, with key leaders championing a vision that includes the wellbeing of every employee. In this episode, Jesse...
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WHE32: Boosting Stress Resilience for Employees | with Andrew Shatté
“Stress is the new fat. It makes us sick, depletes us emotionally, and diminishes our quality of life.” ~ Jan Bruce, co-author of meQuilibrium Just like managing weight, managing stress is about...
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WHE33: Engaging Wellness Solutions for an On-Demand World | with Lorna...
Grokker is an on-demand wellness solution that engages employees with better health through video, experts, and community. Loved by users in 172 countries around the world and used by top employers...
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