Tag Archives: corporate wellness
The 5 Pillars of Employee Behavior Change: Pillar #3
You have high hopes for your employee wellbeing program—you’re going to motivate and inspire your employees to eat healthier, exercise more, quit smoking… well, the list goes on and on. And while you may have good intentions, if you’re like … Continue reading
The Grassroots Approach to Employee Wellbeing—And Why it Works
The ideal version of employee wellbeing looks something like this: You have an engaged, enthusiastic workforce where employees are excited to come to work and have plenty of strategies to maintain their physical and mental health. And most of us … Continue reading
A New Paradigm for Approaching Mental Health in the Workplace
If you have a stake in your employees’ health (and most HR, benefits, and people managers do), you’ve probably already realized that poor mental health among your employees is a massive and complex problem. And the larger your company, the … Continue reading
How Blue Apron Approaches Employee Wellbeing
How does a 5,000-person company with employees distributed in offices and warehouses around the country approach employee wellbeing? LifeDojo recently caught up with Hannah Bertiger, Benefits & Wellness Coordinator at Blue Apron to find out! Read on to learn about Blue Apron’s current … Continue reading
Dispelling the Myths of Workplace Wellness Programs
You’ve probably observed a disconnect between the ideal version of workplace “wellness” and the all-too-common reality. In the ideal version, you have an office full of motivated, healthy employees who participate in your programs and achieve lasting results. But if … Continue reading
We’ve Got the Cure for These 4 Common Wellbeing Program Ailments
With most ailments like the common cold, you usually know exactly what to do. When you have a sore throat, you gargle with salt water. If you have a cold, nothing works better than Mom’s chicken soup. But what if … Continue reading
How to Personalize Your Employee Wellbeing Program
Here’s a common scenario: Your company decides to offer a wellness challenge, and you get a big group committed to running a 5k or walking 10,000 steps a day for a month. People seem excited and motivated at the beginning … Continue reading
Habit Change & Workplace Wellbeing: Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we explored some of the factors that go into the mechanics of habit change and why it’s so hard to adjust our behavior, even if we have a strong desire to make a change. If you … Continue reading
Habit Change & Workplace Wellbeing: Part 1
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle Your alarm rings at 6am, you hit the snooze button—five more minutes of sleep. The second alarm goes off, and, grunting, you sit up. You … Continue reading
Finding the Focus for Your Employee Wellbeing Program
Wellbeing can be a tricky concept to define. That’s why we spent a blog post diving into what we mean by this term and why we think it’s important to distinguish between wellness and wellbeing. One of the reasons why we prefer … Continue reading