why wellness strategies fail and how to make them work
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Wellness strategies can easily fail. Ensure they are successful by linking the strategy to improvement in the organisational areas of wellness pain. The wellness budget can then be funded by the savings it will produce. Critically, there needs to be a focus on the why and what of personal wellness change and also providing resilience training tools to support and sustain the how of the personal change.TRANSCRIPT
Why wellness strategies fail ....... and how to make them
work
Rod Warner
www.buildingresilience.co.za
http://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingresilience
082 456 0819
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The business case is compelling
Pressure for wellness Pressure for wellness professionals to do professionals to do something!!something!!
A vicious cycle?
A vicious cycle?
A vicious cycle?
A vicious cycle?
A vicious cycle: nothing changes
The pressing orgainsational wellness needs remain.......
which leads to ...................
How can you break out of this cycle?
We need: - different strategy different strategy - employee - employee behaviour changebehaviour change
New approach
needed please!
The wellness strategy must create and sustain personal change
1. Create an alternative wellness 1. Create an alternative wellness strategy:strategy:
1. Identify impact of wellness problems2. Select the indices to measure 3. Create base line measures4. Develop strategy to improve the
measures5. Fund wellness budget through savings
It takes courage!
The key to success:The key to success:
Ensure employees understand Ensure employees understand why, what and how to change why, what and how to change
Why and what Why and what to changeHowHow to sustain change
2. Help each employee understand why and what why and what they should change
1. Education tailored to audience2. Tight integration between information,
testing and individualised health plan 3. Regular testing and feedback 4. Access to corrective processes5. Incentivise
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
3. Help each employee understand how how to create and sustain change:
1. Personalised change strategy2. Train in resilience tools
3.1 Create a personalised
change strategy
(How)
... for example weight loss
At the moment he has a very strict diet that works for a period...... and then........
...pigging out, feeling ...pigging out, feeling like a failure and then like a failure and then abandoning the dietabandoning the diet
An alternate strategy is needed to make and sustain behaviour
change
Weight loss Step 1: What? Lose 20kg weightStep 2: Doing now? Very strict diet leading to
hunger followed by bingingStep 3: Fear if did opposite? Only dramatic diets
will work for meStep 4: Assumption? I lack will power to stick to
a diet for the long runStep 5: Small step? Test the assumption with a
gentle and gradual diet for a short period
3.2 Train resilience tools (How)
Life meaning: meaning making and strengths
Self management: perspective, positive feelings and realistic optimism
Coping style: action orientated and social support
Elements of resilience
•Meaning making•Using strengths•Maintaining perspective•Generating positive feelings•Having realistic optimism•Reaching out to others
Resilience tools:
• Coping with change• Keeps stress positive
........ sustains wellness behaviour change
Building Resilience tools enable:
In summary: 1. Link strategy to improvement in indices2. Fund budget by savings3.Focus on the why and what of personal wellness change4. Provide resilience training in the how of sustaining personal wellness change
You are our heroes!
Why wellness strategies fail ....... and how to make them
work
Rod Warner
www.buildingresilience.co.za
http://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingresilience
082 456 0819