Wellness Management in the Workplace: Rethinking Change

1. http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/jellery/World_shared/Henry2011.pptxhttp://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/jellery/World_shared/Henry2011.pptx Wellness Management in the Workplace: Rethinking Change • Jane Ellery, Ph.D.Associate Director and Assistant Professor, Wellness Management jellery@bsu.edu Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology

2. What is Wellness? How does your company view human assets? How does your wellness plan fit within your company’s mission? What is important to your employees? What are they willing to change? How can you help make the “healthiest choice” the “easiest choice.”

3. Where are we now? Occupational Health and Safety It’s a full-time job to think about all of this! Employee Assistance Programs Integrated Solutions Nutrition Interventions Weight Loss and Obesity Prevention Employee Health Plans Health Risk Assessments Healthier Employees Cultural Assessments Physical Fitness Initiatives Small Business Wellness Tax Credit Consumer Driven Health Plans Health and Productivity Management Incentives

4. If you want to think about it full time… • Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology graduate degree program in Wellness Management • 2 year MA/MS program that combines health enhancement thinking with a foundations of business minor

5. What’s a part-timer to do? • Hire a vendor – make sure they develop into a partner AND they have a monetary investment in assuring participation and change in your employees (maybe split payment for services into 50% for delivering services and 50% for achieving outcomes) • Send your HR manager to receive some training (See University of Southern Indiana and IP-FW offerings… coming soon – certificate in workplace wellness at Ball State) • Partner with the Wellness Council of Indiana and/or develop a local support structure

6. These may be good actions… • But start with thinking! Best Thinking Best Planning Best Doing

7. Wellness Management Wellness • An integrated method of functioning which is oriented toward maximizing the potential of which the individual is capable, within the environment where he is functioning • Halbert Dunn, 1977 • Supporting opportunities to impact the diverse, multi-dimensional processes important in preserving and protecting health and well-being.

8. Gallup Well-being Index

10. Rank = 412/436 Lowest in Indiana (next lowest - 387) Rank = 39/50

13. Personal and Professional Possibilities…

15. What is Wellness? How does your company view human assets? How does your wellness plan fit within your company’s mission? What is important to your employees? What are they willing to change? How can you help make the “healthiest choice” the “easiest choice.”